Helen Mirren thinks she's just a point on a spectrum.

What actresses like Emma Thompson, Mirren, and Bonham-Carter have in common is that they're from wealthy and privileged backgrounds. You don't see a working class actor like Maxine Peake throwing women under the bus. Biological sex is writ larger when you have less money and fewer resources.

One of the things I've realised about these actors who appear really intelligent, like Emma Thompson and Helen Mirren and Helena Bonham Carter and Juliet Stephenson, is that that intelligence is part of their acting persona. It's not real.

I don't know anything about HBC, but JS, ET and HM have said and done such crassly stupid things, that I'm satisfied that their bruited intelligence (which is really just having a posh accent and having been to a good school so they have a base level of knowledge not always possessed by working class actors, of which there are fewer and fewer) is Not All That. So now when actors appear to me to be intelligent, I assume it's part of their persona - that they're acting intelligence - until I hear more.

I think Mirren is quite stupid.

Dame Helen said that she would say the same about herself as she has a ‘number of male qualities’. ‘I hate talking about my feelings, I never want to go to the doctor and I’m a brilliant map-reader. I have a lot of what people might call male qualities. But I certainly look like a woman,’ she said

She said that she doesn’t see men as being men and woman as being women

I think one would have to be quite stupid to say that. She is 74 and apparently doesn't understand people have personalities - that they aren't just a collection of stereotypes.

Being sexually attractive to men has been hugely important to Mirren. She's a good actress but playing up that side has always been an element- particularly as she got older.

She is also in favour of legalised brothels and has given an endorsement on that awful website which promotes prostitutes for disabled men.

The South Park episode that first parodied the Weinstein brothers aired in 2003

Joke in an episode of 30 Rock, aired in March 2012:

Jenna Maroney: Oh, please. I'm not afraid of anyone in show business. I turned down intercourse with Harvey Weinstein on no less than three occasions. Out of five.

Everyone knew.

I lost respect for her when she blamed rape victims for rape.

When she talks about 'sexuality', she's describing gender.

I got curious and looked it up. The South Park episode that first parodied the Weinstein brothers aired in 2003. So it was common knowledge what utter creeps those two were to anyone working around the film industry by then.

It's in The Times too. I've commented but they are moderating.
All she's really done is reject gender stereotypes, how can she confuse that with biology??

Didn't she say she didn't believe in binary sexuality rather than binary sex? Unless she was misusing sexuality I actually agree with what I have read she said, other than that twaw.

Yet another one conflating gender and sex. She's right about us all being somewhere on the gender spectrum, but doesn't seem to understand the fundamental difference between behavioural gender and biological sex.

She's clearly not a stupid woman but, seriously, how can anyone be that dumb?

Who cares what she thinks ?.It`s what we think that counts.

I lost respect for her after years of wanging on about being a staunch republican but she couldn't get up to the palace quick enough for the Damehood

Everyone with even the smallest connection to the film world knew.

South Park did an episode about the Weinstein brothers years ago, and the guys who make it are a lot more peripherally connected to the film industry than Mirren is.

Why do celebrities think their opinion is in any way valid, just because they're famous? Why do people bother to listen to them and write articles about their beliefs?

I’ve often wondered that.
I lost respect for Helen Mirren when she claimed she never knew about Harvey Weinstein abusing women. Everyone with even the smallest connection to the film world knew.

She's not being that controversial, surely? She's saying what many of us feel that those attributes that are traditionally "masculine" are often found in women and vice versa. I don't think she is saying that, to use a cliche, a male who likes pink is a female.

One more woman who is never going to have to worry about sharing spaces with men because she’ll never end up on an NHS ward or in a shelter.