I don't see that Bald Eagle was responding to any special female quality in the quotation. He seems to have been responding to the dreary self-esteem rhetoric about "liking oneself". Many of the most interesting people in history have loathed themselves, and done everything they could to drag themselves away from themselves towards higher things than self. I am surprised that Germaine Greer, who is usually somewhat more interestingly ironic about her own failings should have said this. The idea that liking yourself is essential to throwing off the shackles of being an oppressed minority is typical of a society that wants you to ignore structural oppression and focus on self-help -- it is not a social problem, it is just that you don't feel good about yourself, so it is a personal problem, and not political, economic, or societal. That is why the best seller lists are full of books about self-improvement, and not about supporting community and social action to change things.

Or maybe she just had a bad hair day.

yours, Peter T.