Posted on 03/08/2006 2:52:37 PM PST by dynachrome
Greer, who would like to "shoot" 4WD drivers, began her speech by attacking Holden over ads for the new Rodeo ute, in which a woman asks a man what his ultimate fantasy is, only to have him imagine driving off-road with a younger, slimmer and "entirely servile" woman.
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Might be a good new product line, as their vehicle market share declines.
Ha. That was my alternate joke.
Feminism is more about socialism than women's rights.
Holden is the brand name used by General Motors to sell cars in Australia.
As long as they can shoot back. I'll bet most 4WD drivers have better aim than that old bat.
Am glad it wasn't Pam Greer, Foxy Brown!
A "ute" in Oz....a car based pickup truck (like our El Camino)
"I used to know a guy..."
Michael Hunt was an associate.
By today's standards, this would still go over big in some houses, especially if her girlfriend is cute.
Words have meaning. While there is a freedom to comment on something (like drawing a cartoon of Mohammed's death cult followers), there is no freedom to advocate violence against non-violent shop owners.
Pam Greer
Now there was a real woman.
A Communist holiday.
Throw this commie in Gitmo.
"Words have meaning"
That is what got me about this speech. She advocates vandalism and murder. The reporter never blinks an eye.
Lesbians stole images of Pam Grier from Coffy and Foxy Brown for use on their photocopied fliers for years.
"Lesbians stole images of Pam Grier..."
Probably for other purposes as well...
Greer, who said Holden would have based the ad on market research, said it demonstrated the problem of Australians, regardless of sex, not speaking out.
This is quite comical.
Greer also appeared to have departed from her pledge in 2000 not to set foot on Australian soil until traditional Aboriginal owners allowed her in.
Gold Coast Native Title Group committee member Wesley Aird said Greer had not contacted his group to seek permission to enter its land.
I'm shocked!
Yeah, but the use of name Rodeo (Isuzu) & from the look, this thing probably started life in Thailand.
In 1932 a farmer's wife from Gippsland, Vic. wrote a letter of complaint to Ford Australia, saying that her husband wanted a car that could carry her 'to church on Sundays and pigs to market on Mondays'. In response, a 22 year old engineer named Lewis Brandt designed and successfully pushed the concept of a passenger/load-carrying vehicle, and the first Ford 'Coupé Utility' rolled off the production line in 1934. This vehicle was a huge success, and spawned many similar cars worldwide. However, most of the overseas pickups were more truck than sedan based, and to this day, the mighty ute remains largely a unique Australian body style. Over the years, Ford and General Motors locally manufactured ute versions of their passenger cars, and when the 'first Australian car', the Holden 48-215 (FX) was released in 1948, an FX ute was also made available. A similar thing thing happened with the XK Falcon in 1960 - a car Ford Australia found in the US and decided would be perfect for Australia (along with a ute variant of course). When Chrysler briefly set up shop and began locally producing cars, it was a foregone conclusion that they would make utes also. Apart from a few dark patches in the 80's/90's, Holden and Ford have always produced a utility based on their volume passenger car.
Today, any load carrying car too small to be a truck is called a ute (including 4WD traybacks etc), but among the ute purists, and given the spirit of Lew Brandt's original design philosophy, a real Aussie ute is one based on a passenger sedan, preferably with a seamless body-moulded tray (exceptions made for the mighty 'tonner). Fortunately, the Australian icon is still alive and well despite the influx of cheap Japanese 4WDs, and should be with us for many years to come.
Dear Ms Greer, feminism, indigenous peoples, land rights and your twisted knickers really have nothing to do with one of our most useful vehicles. Your ravings are not welcome here, but you knew that when you moved to Britain.
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