Boom! Germaine Greer Gets Glitterbombed

Had to post this one because it made me smile.  

According to Pink News UK longtime transphobic feminist Germaine Greer was glitterbombed while in New Zealand.  A group calling themselves the Queer Avengers claimed responsibility for the March 14 glitterbombing of one of the patron saints of transphobic feminism 

The 73 year old Greer was in the country as part of Writers and Readers Week for the New Zealand International Arts Festival when she was glittered in Wellington..


"Transphobic feminism is so 20th Century,” asserted Stacey of the Queer Avengers. “It wasn’t okay then and it’s not okay now. Women’s liberation must mean the right to refuse imposed gender roles, to fight for diverse gender expression.”

Greer has a long history of transphobic statements and negativity directed at transwomen, most recently in an August 2009 op-ed she wrote during the height of the Caster Semenya kerfluffle in which she referred to transwomen as 'ghastly parodies' of women.

As far as I'm concerned, this ghastly parody of a human being got what was coming to her and this glitterbombing couldn't have happened to a nicer transphobe..

Boom, Boom! Dan Savage Gets Glitterbombed Again

Seems like I just wrote about rainbow transphobe Dan Savage getting glitterbombed at a November 1 University of Oregon event.   Now I've been informed it happened again at a November 9 UC-Irvine event.

You TransGriot readers get to peruse the comments of Tobi Hill-Meyer and Kat Rose on this while I get my thoughts together about this latest incident in which one of the students involved in this latest glitterbombing was captured by the police and arrested.

Note to Savage fans.  If your boy is getting glitterbombed at it seems like almost every stop on his MTV tour, shouldn't that tell you he has a problem with transphobia?  

If you're going to continue to deny that he does, mayve the following links will open your eyes to just a sample of Dan's issues and why he's having to comb glitter out of his hair all of a sudden?


http://bifurious.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/its-definitely-time-to-find-a-new-sex-advice-columnist/
http://gudbuytjane.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/dan-savages-transphobia-back-again/
http://www.queerty.com/what-does-it-mean-when-trans-activists-glitterbomb-dan-savage-20111102/
http://masculinetoast.tumblr.com/post/1260470380/dan-savage-and-transphobia

Now, are you going to listen to what transpeople and our allies are trying to tell you about Savage's megadouchery on a wide variety of issues or keep trying to stick your head in the sand about it?