2023-05-31 20:14:48
John Cleese has clarified that he will keep a controversial scene on the same issues in the stage version of ‘Life of Brian’. The ‘Daily Mail’ published last week that Cleese will delete the scene in which Stan, a member of the Popular Front of Judea who conspires against the Romans, announces to his cronies that he wants to have children and that they call him Loreta. Stan, played by Eric Idle, feels oppressed when Reg (Cleese) tells him that he can’t have them because he doesn’t have a uterus. The Front decides to defend Loreta’s right to have children.
The reading of the script for the satire on religion and politics, created in the 1970s by the comedy group Monty Python and with great success in theaters in many countries, prompted a warning from the actors recruited on Broadway for the play. . They told Cleese that they liked the script very much, but that she “wouldn’t get away with that passage” in New York.
According to the English comedian, he explained what happened to the English audience in a humorous monologue, on a tour that will take him to Asia and Australia in the coming weeks. A member of that audience would have told a journalist from the ‘Mail’ that Cleese would cancel the scene and, after the publication of that news, the false news spread throughout the world. The funny thing about the digital age is that no one called Cleese to confirm the news.
Controversy with Kathleen Stock
The exhibition at the Oxford Union of the arguments of the philosopher Kathleen Stock on contemporary issues of gender and sex took place on Tuesday in the university city, despite protests from groups of the LGBT movement. There is no humor in the debate surrounding Stock, who felt compelled to resign as a staff member at the University of Sussex as a result of what she calls harassment. A security service protected her from possible violence on her journey through the streets of Oxford. It was unnecessary, because the protests were peaceful.
Those angry at Stock call her transphobic, but the ‘Material Girls’ author supports the basic rights of people who have changed their sexual identity or sex. To express themselves and not be marginalized, for example. But she in the book she writes against the idea that a personal feeling about one’s gender can take precedence over the biological sex at birth.
Stock, born in the Scottish city of Aberdeen, 50, mother of two teenage children, feminist and lesbian, has consistently articulated arguments already advanced by novelist JK Rowling and others about preserving spaces for biological women. Oxford students protested the invitation to the Union, which is a debate club, and 44 professors asked, as well as the prime minister, Rishi Sunal, that the guest present her ideas and answer the questions.
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