John Cleese asks a question

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I thought there was a John Cleese thread already but I can’t seem to find it. Has it been deleted?

He’s not shying away

Sorry, forgot the link

mobile.twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1280986488600215552

He's having fun. He'll sit back and watch the wokeratti tie themselves in knots as they get tangled up in a confusion of sex and gender.

Haha! They will declare his tweet problematic!

Oh, the finger-wagging...

Staying tuned to see if a man gets told to choke on a lady dick, or if that's just reserved for women...

He knows exactly what he's doing. JC is far from stupid.

lol he's a clever trans woman

He’s a fearless poker.

We have found a witch. May we burn her?

• Burn her!
• How do you know she is a witch?
• She looks like one.
• Bring her forward.
• I am not a witch.
• But you are dressed as one.
• They dressed me up like this.
• We didn't!
• And this isn't my nose. It's a false one.
• Well?
• Well, we did do the nose.
• The nose?
• And the hat. But she is a witch.
• Burn her!
• Did you dress her up like this?
• No.
• Yes.
• Yes, a bit. She has got a wart.
• What makes you think she is a witch?
• Well, she turned me into a newt.
• A newt?
• I got better.
• Burn her anyway.
• Burn her!
• Quiet! There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
• Are there? What are they? Tell us.
• Tell me, what do you do with witches?
• Burn them!
• What do you burn apart from witches?
• More witches!
• Wood.
• So, why do witches burn?
• 'Cause they're made of wood?
• Good!
• So, how do we tell whether she is made of wood?
• Build a bridge out of her.
• Can you not also make bridges of stone?
• Oh, yeah.
• Does wood sink in water?
• No.
• It floats.
• Throw her into the pond!
• What also floats in water?
• Bread.
• Apples.
• Very small rocks.
• Cider.
• Cherries.
• Gravy.
• Mud.
• Churches.
• Lead.
• A duck!
• Exactly.

So, logically...

• If she weighs the same as a duck...

She's made of wood.

• And, therefore...
• A witch!
• A witch!

He isn’t correct of course because it won’t be a same sex relationship, it will be a same gender relationship, but by Stonewall law that would make it a lesbian relationship. And because it will be a realisation that he’s a woman and always has been, it would mean all of his previous relationships would be lesbian relationships as well, whether the other women in those relationships agree or not. Them’s the roolz.

I thought Tinsel was going to climb through the twitter machine and smack him, as he so richly deserves.

mobile.twitter.com/JohnCleese/with_replies

He’s on fire! And not a dick pick or die terf in sight. He’s also kinda come to bat for JKR (see screen shot) 😊

I particularly like this:

“Sensitive, of course. But not oversensitive

I don't believe that the most touchy, most easily upset, most emotionally fragile folk should be setting the bar for all the rest of us “

In reply to “ ...while I would never get upset with people for their well intended language, it's important to be sensitive to people...”

He really is on a roll. Seems to have a good grasp on all the issues.

It's fascinating to see the responses to the first tweet about the wife and same-sex marriage. All the TRAs can say is either "it's complicated, you don't understand" (without actually explaining anything) or "stop asking these questions".

It really reminds me of the discussions I had about religion growing up. Any awkward questions were either met with one of those two responses.

Haha! I can only imagine the wokescolds have genuinely no idea of the stink that Life of Brian kicked up back in the day. John has been grappling with censorious types since the late 70s - 40+ years of experience of people telling him he can’t say or think what he’s saying or thinking. He’s up to this

I’m still glad to see it, though.

I only got one tweet in before I hit the mother lode of ageism. “Ask your grandkids”, FFS!

I sincerely hope that when I was young and knew everything, I wasn’t such an insufferably ageist arse.

Love him for this.

Reminds me of the day I told my brother Eddie Izzard is a lesbian now..

@Ginnyhip46
Brilliant Thank you do much for that I really enjoyed reading that.
The witch was Carol thingummy, Cleese's first wife

Connie Booth

He’s saying the emperor has no clothes on

@homemadecommunistrussia

Connie Booth

Thank you! I was getting mixed up with Carol Cleveland and not realising.

Staying tuned to see if a man gets told to choke on a lady dick, or if that's just reserved for women...

I'm reading through the comments on his posts now, but there is a very apparent difference between the TRA comments on his posts vs JKR's posts. I have yet to see someone call him a TERF.

Yep I've been watching these. The first reply was so utterly patronising.

Reading him bat around the wokerati has made my morning somewhat brighter! A delightful start to the day

Well done John.
It will be interesting seeing the woke responses to this. Quite different responses to John than those to JK I imagine.
I doubt the woke will be quite so quick to slate John, hmmm could that be because he is a man?

Can't wait to see what happens here.