Ahhh... Ms Greer. Such pearls of wisdom. The thing I like about Germaine is that she usually rambles on about 'taboo' subjects such as Aboriginal rights and kiddie pr0n whilst simultaneously admitting that she has no answers or constructive criticisms. This usually occurs at a public appearance, held namely at a luncheon or any other place where alcohol runs like water throughout the Jenolan Caves (such as Universities, etc):

Speaking at a business lunch in Brisbane yesterday, a rambling but compelling Greer said it had always frustrated her that women did not understand the nature of power in the workplace.

She said women lacked ruthlessness and had the "naive conviction" that if they did a good job they would be promoted.

"We (women) have never understood the nature of the corporate world, that you could rise within but you could (also) slide all the way down," Greer said.

Describing management as "the art of taking credit for other people's work", Greer said women at university often deluded themselves by thinking "the academic hoop being held out for them to jump through" was a real assessment of their inner value.

Jeebus... some of the people that I go to Uni with mustn't care that much about their inner value. As a female, I am a minority in the film course that I am studying (is anyone really that surprised?). Thus, I work particularly hard, not because I feel like it is giving me an accurate assessment of my inner value but because I reckon that I can make films and write wanky art essays as well the menfolk can (sometimes I can pull a Greer and write even better than our patriarchal overlords). However, all is not lost when GG says something that makes sense in a particular context:

"The girl is looking for her father's attention ... her father represents that big glass mountain that she's trying to climb. When she goes into the male corporate world, it's his world and she's still looking in a sense for his approbation.

"And that makes her, I think, extremely vulnerable. And she can be exploited."

Greer said fathers generally had trouble relating to their daughters because they were used to treating women as sex objects. This tended to make them push their daughters away.

Of course this isn't applicable to everyone. But then I read this article and, using my experience as an academic hoop jumper, I came to the conclusion that our protagonist Trina didn't 'lose it' because she received a phone call from her dead father whilst attending his funeral. Rather, she was anguished over the fact that her sick leave would now be cut short and that she'd soon have to return to her corporate position... forcing her to once again search for her returned father's approbation via overworking and self-exploitation.

...Or she went bonkers because she had to pay for the funeral when she's probably still paying off her accumulated college debts.