We at Concrete Playground tend to believe young people should be in charge of big, important media organisations. But Ben Naparstek of the Monthly: you’re starting to give us a bad name. Commissioning Louis Nowra (not 'Louise', as could be innocently skim-read) to write a bitchy appraisal of Germaine Greer forty years after The Female Eunuch. Seriously? We’ve all had our mixed feelings for Germaine over the years, but Nowra’s piece is full of half-baked assertions that Greer “misunderstands” women because “young women today love shopping more than ever”, embrace “fripperies”, accept botox as a “rite of passage”, and all while sometimes being even more educated than their husbands. Apparently devoid of irony, he proceeds to lambast Greer for her looks, age, and resemblance to his "demented grandmother". (more…)