Germaine Greer: still fiery, still outspoken: the feminist lioness | observer profile

The formidable writer is again embroiled in a protest over her views – but she’s never been a stranger to controversy and there’s no doubting that she has brought zest and vigour to our intellectual lives

Loud mouthed, rude and often obnoxious, Germaine Greer is consistently controversial. In other respects, including as a feminist, she is all over the place: dazzling us at one moment with polemics in favour of free love and, a few years later, vocally celebrating celibacy. It should hardly surprise us now that she is at the centre of another row.

Several thousand people signed a petition protesting that she should not be allowed to give a lecture at Cardiff University (on women and power) because she has, in the words of the petition, “misogynistic views towards trans women”.

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