IDK man I truly did not know pangur-and-grim outside of this, a couple of their cat posts are definitely floating around my blog. I am not especially invested in whether or not some rando wrote a bad book(a common occurrence).
But like it is disappointing in the way you wince when even a complete stranger starts screaming at a teenage cashier because they accidentally gave them wrong change. The original reviewer was harsh, but they also didn't send Greer their review or demand an apology from them. Writing a scathing review of your book is just kind of something you have to accept as a published author(and honestly as a writer generally if you really care about honing your craft). Especially if the major points of the review are criticisms of your handling of sensitive content.
It is also a frustratingly common dishonest tactic to frame the criticism of your handling of sensitive topics as the critic being a puritan crybaby who is throwing a tantrum over the mere presence of those topics. They made several posts to the effect of "gosh, I know it's going to make people SO angry that I accurately reflect my autistic experience" and "alas, can you believe people are mad when you just address fatphobia in your works" which are just really incredibly dishonest framings of the reviewers' criticism, which are that the fatphobia and transmisogyny etc are treated as humorous. And the attacking queer fiction point is especially frustrating when one of the other criticisms was how uncomfortable the book is with gay butt sex and queer people in general. Considering the fact that Greer seems to have accepted that the racism allegation is founded(albeit they responded to it very poorly), it's a little unfair to write everyone off as jealous haters and make posts about how you should never respond to criticism because all they want is to humiliate you. The review was later edited to explicitly state that the author doesn't want this to be a drama, they just wanted to review a bad book negatively.
The original reviewer had space in their heart for the possibility that Greer might take this as a learning experience and that their next book would be a lot better, but I confess I don't have it in me. You just kind of can't improve as a creative if you can't handle a gay critic reading you to filth.
