Michelle, I agree with you on some points.
I have friends and family who worked in the OSS, CIA, etc. One at least was for a time responsible for positions being sent directly to POTUS for policy formation.
Trust me, these people viewed the soviet union and their allies with a very jaundiced eye.during the cold war, Vietnam etc.
These people held some fairly nuanced views but college students protesting the war didn't come in for their sympathies.
I spent time in republican districts in Ohio in '08 working for Obama. There were people there who took a pretty dim view of LGB people, trans people weren't even vaguely on their radar. It was my task to convince these people to vote for Barack no too long after the MA decision that enacted gay marriage.
Trust me, these people weren't fans about that and I wasn't going to lie to them about Obama's positions. I nonetheless convinced quite a few to vote for him.
Hell, my own sister is a TERF. I understand why and having tried coming out to her two decades ago I'm not bothering to have that conversation.
People believe what they do for the reasons they do. Perhaps Ms Greer is as self-serving as you think. What I'm saying is there are well and truly valid reasons for women *especially then* to want to be separatist. I'm not saying they were or are right, I just don't care and I'm not willing to label them 'wrong' either.Some of them had other prejudices.
Hell, I'm separatist. a fair fraction of the men I know I want as little contact with as I can get and I truly find I'm happiest among queer identified women, depending on the venue, queer identified people of all genders.
bah, have to go back to work, as fun as this is :-)