Greta Thunberg’s defiance upsets the patriarchy – and it’s wonderful Suzanne Moore Contributor image for: Suzanne MooreThe 16-year-old climate-emergency activist refuses to kowtow to old men, and it has left them squirming suzanne mooreTue 1 Oct 2019 Sometimes you don’t realise how conditioned you are until you meet someone who isn’t. Sure, I may be blunt in my work, but I still say sorry when someone barges into me in the street. I smile when others are being difficult. After all, I am of a certain age, and was brought up, consciously or not, to be a people-pleaser.In the 80s, I stood hesitantly outside an assertiveness training class – feminists used to do lots of stuff like that – unsure whether to knock or not, as I was five minutes late. As I have got older, I please myself far more and everyone else far less. And I often look to younger women for guidance.The extraordinary reactions of certain men to Greta Thunberg, which have nothing to do with her urgent and necessary message on the climate emergency, tells you exactly what happens when a young woman simply refuses to be sexualised. It makes them deeply uncomfortable.Thunberg’s manner may be associated with her Asperger’s, but her defiance unsettles them. Old, male intellectuals in France have been farting on because she is not “sexy” enough. Yes, really. The 84-year-old philosopher Bernard Pivot, the president of the Académie Goncourt, a French literary society, talked of the sexy Swedish girls of his youth. Greta does not match up, apparently. Michel Onfray, 60, another philosopher, said she has the age and body of a cyborg. Pascal Bruckner, 70, said her face was “scary” and that she flaunts her autism. Trump, as we know, has mocked her.She is a 16-year-old, and these are grown men. And they are terrified. Wonderful. Who knew you could shake the patriarchy simply by refusing to smile for it, dress for it or demur to it? A refusal to acquiesce to the male gaze has these dinosaurs squirming.Greta, you teach us about more than one kind of climate. Thank you.
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Being a very old man Wong, would she make you squirm?
I think as grown, mature adults we've probably got better things to do than pass judgement on a young woman we've never met because we may or may not like the things she has to say.
Fuck you are cucked Maggie.
LOL!!
The reason the left use this crazy puppet is because she is just 16 years old and we shouldn't be negative against a young innocent should we???
Didn't stop them attacking that young kid wearing the MAGA hat, while the media showed doctored footage. And it turned out he did absolutely nothing wrong but stand there. Anyone who thinks Greta is anything but as pawn used by her parents and the left are too stupid for words.
"How dare you"
Exactly.
Kids from the right of politics - brainwashed racists
Kids from the left - brave humanitarians who only care about the worlds future.
Chocky frog told me the on the other climate change blog that she was being used by the global capital elites. I can't keep up with all the people supposedly using her.
A very interesting analogy Snake!
How is pointing out someone’s families activist roots slander?
Should actually open your eyes if anything.
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