S2 EP7: Germaine Greer on her three-week long marriage, flirting with George Best, and her controversial views on gender and the MeToo movement.

The Louis Theroux Podcast

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Comedy, Society & Culture, Arts

4.3 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Louis rises at the crack of dawn to talk to Germaine Greer, the infamous writer, intellectual, and major voice of second-wave feminism. Beaming in from a studio in Castlemaine, Australia, they discuss her extraordinary life and career, including her three-week long marriage, flirting with George Best, and her controversial views on gender and the MeToo movement. Warnings: Strong language, adult subject matter, including descriptions of sexual violence, and is intended for adult consumption only. Listener discretion is advised. Visit spotify.com/resources for information and resources. Links/Attachments: ‘Revisiting Suck magazine’s experiment in radical feminist pornography’ – Journal Time https://www.documentjournal.com/2018/11/revisiting-suck-magazines-experiment-in-radical-feminist-pornography/ Robert Plant & Germaine Greer picture https://i.pinimg.com/736x/05/f2/88/05f288fb945d5aac7af471ef88db7a08.jpg ‘Nice Time’ – BBC TV show featuring Kenny Everett and Germaine Greer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywl0QrK3C68&t Credits: Producer: Millie Chu Assistant Producer: Maan Al-Yasiri Production Manager: Francesca Bassett Music: Miguel D’Oliveira Photo: Neil Spence Photography Executive Producer: Arron Fellows A Mindhouse Production for Spotify www.mindhouse.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, let's do this.
0:06.0	Hello again. Louis Theroux here.
0:11.0	Welcome to my Spotify podcast called the Louis Theroux podcast.
0:16.0	No jokes. That's what it's called.
0:33.4	In this episode, we are speaking to Jermaine Greer, writer, professor, intellectual, and one of the major voices,
0:41.5	definitely the most famous exponent of second wave feminism, which, if you didn't know,
0:50.0	is the one that was in the 70s. Yeah, I know about this stuff. She wrote the female eunuch in 1970,
0:56.0	or thereabouts, the year I was born. So that's two great things that happened that year.
0:58.1	But the Beatles broke up.
1:01.7	It was a seminal text, a bestseller around the world.
1:04.6	It made Jermaine a household name.
1:08.4	And having dipped into it, it's maybe not what you would think.
1:12.3	Like it's a, I guess it's a polemic, but it's very much about not just the idea of women's power, but also sort of the idea that women have been
1:18.4	castrated from being their full selves and especially in their sexual self-expression.
1:25.0	She spoke openly about topics that at the time were taboo, menstruation,
1:29.2	hormonal changes, pregnancy, menopause, sexual arousal and orgasm, which nowadays, I wouldn't
1:37.9	say that's routine, there's probably further to go on that stuff, but at that time it was
1:42.1	even more the case that people didn't speak about those
1:44.7	subjects. Since the beginning of her career, she's been known for being outspoken and often
1:49.0	controversial, calling for reduced sentences for rape, dismissing the Me Too movement as, quote,
1:55.1	winging, and most recently criticized for comments around the trans community. She's a hero to some, and to her critics, she's outdated and out of touch.
2:05.9	And I felt for me that in this chat, that kind of the fact that she's made at her life's
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