Richard Dawkins tells students upset by Germaine Greer to ‘go home and hug a teddy’
Richard Dawkins has spoken out, after students called for author Germaine Greer to be blocked from giving a talk because of her anti-transgender views.
Feminist author Greer was due to give a talk at Cardiff University next month ā but cancelled the talk of her own accord after a number of activists protested her repeated derogatory comments about trans women.
Greer has previously spoken out against āmanās delusion that he is femaleā, claiming trans women are āsome kind of ghastly parodyā but will never be women because they do not know what itās like to have a ābig, hairy, smelly vaginaā.
The author has since caused more outrage, referring to Caitlyn Jenner as a āhe/sheā who āwanted the limelight that the female members of the family were enjoyingā.
Wading into the row, evolutionary biologist and atheist author Richard Dawkins has lashed out at people who tried to get Greer blocked from speaking over her comments.
Taking to Twitter to challenge the v, he said: āStudents who suppress a distinguished scholarās lecture because they disagree with her have no place in a university.
āThose who think itās nonsense are entitled to stay away. Or come and argue. They should not censor views they think are nonsense.
āA university is not a āsafe spaceā. If you need a safe space, leave, go home, hug your teddy & suck your thumb until ready for university.ā
Greer has appeared in a number of high-profile media outlets since complaining that she is being censored.
In a BBC News report broadcast to millions of people, she complained her voice was being silenced, saying: āI was going to talk about women and power, because I think there is a lot of triumphalist [sic] talk that masks the real historic situation.
āAnd apparently people have decided that because I donāt think that post-operative transgender men are women Iām not to be allowed to talk.ā
