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Greer was to read extracts from her latest bestseller, The Whole Woman, but preferred to take questions from gawky girls and others who wanted to know her views on everything from abortion, breast implants, 'morning after' pills to politics. They got much more: a ridicule of the British penchant of "being alone in a crowd, not laughing when someone cracks a joke in public...the British are functionally mad", the Mozambique floods being 'our fault'; there is poverty across the world because of 'our strong economy'. She just can't stand New Labour and has no place in Blairbabe. Neither can she stand the preference of 'today's clever woman' to opt for the caesarean as symbolised by Cherie Blair. But Greer left many women squirming when she blamed the West's rich lifestyle for the family's breakdown: "Families do better in poverty. Children can handle poverty, but I am dubious if they can handle richness. The family is the happiest in Cuba because it is predicated on poverty, which is a better system than richness. We are too rich."

Greer wrote her seminal The Female Eunuch as a lecturer at the nearby University of Warwick. She's now professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies there. The education system too was not spared: "Our education is so crap....Teachers are bed-sitters in England. Our jobs have been systematically devalued." On the way out, the men's movement activist surfaces, shrugs, and points out some lines from The Whole Woman: "The woman who is never mated must grieve. If she is mated and left, she remains forlorn....If she bears no child she is disappointed....Love of the father, love of the partner, love of the child all remain for the vast majority of women unrequited'. He said he's not sure if she is talking about herself. Of course, he didn't ask her.