Does God hate women?

[Adrian II]

In countries like Iran women are abused because of religious opinion. A hundred years ago this would have been intollerable, today it is excused as "cultural difference".

Where? By whom? Can you mention any left-wing party leader or ideologue who excuses the abuse of women in Iran as mere 'cultural difference'?

The case of Germaine Greer is interesting in that it represents precisely the limits of liberal tolerance. Greer's profoundly silly book The Whole Woman in which she defends female circumcision and rejects pap smears, among lots more nonsense, has exasperated reviewers and (previous) followers, to the point where they now realise that her books never were very good anyway and that even The Female Eunuch, her magnum opus, was in hindsight seriously flawed and essentially hysterical. In other words, she's finished and she has only herself to blame.