Yahoo: Former Monty Python star Terry Gilliam has hit out at the #MeToo Movement, labelling it “a witch hunt”, saying he is “tired, as a white male, of being blamed for everything that is wrong with the world”.
The writer and director made comments during an interview where he also said he “better not be a man”.
Talking to the Independent, Gilliam said: “Yeah, I said #MeToo is a witch hunt – I really feel there were a lot of people, decent people, or mildly irritating people, who were getting hammered. That’s wrong. I don’t like mob mentality.
“I understand that men have had more power longer, but I’m tired, as a white male, of being blamed for everything that is wrong with the world – I didn’t do it!
“I’m talking about being a man accused of all the wrong in the world because I’m white-skinned. So I better not be a man. I better not be white. OK, since I don’t find men sexually attractive, I’ve got to be a lesbian. What else can I be? I like girls. These are just logical steps.” keep reading
He’s still a Trump hater.
Well said Terry. He uses humor and honesty to crack on woke liberals and the bs #metoo.
Almost as good was that the majority of the comments on the interview agreed with him on yahoo news.
The #MeToo movement was birthed because male LIBERAL slobs were going around verbally and sexually assaulting female LIBERAL slobs. End. Of. Story.
But has he learned to jump over the matchboxes yet?
Or mountain climb up a sidewalk? Or do silly walks like John Cleese did or tell lethal jokes? Or buy a dead parrot that’s just pining for the fjords, and best of all can he still sing the I’m a lumberjack song, or flash everyone buck naked from an upstairs window like Graham Chapman did in The Life Of Brian. Or defend himself with a pointed stick before a 16 ton weight gets dropped on him. And let’s not even get started on Mr. Creosote.
With those comments he’s definitely not an Upper class twit of the year nominee.
White men have ruled longer? Was ghengis khan a white man? Were the zulu warriors white? Were American indians? Were the Spaniards white? Were the Japanese emperors white?
I always applaud an expression of sanity.
(*applause; applause*)
I knew a guy who got a degree in 1994 and one of his committee members, on informing him that he passed, said: “Too bad you’re the wrong color and the wrong sex.”
So, where the fuck has Gilliam been the past ~25 years? Sure as Hell hasn’t been dealing with the real world – must be surrounded by a pretty thick insulation.
Better late than never, I guess …
izlamo delenda est …
“No one can resist the Spanish Inquisition.”
Just another who did nothing when the fire was small and now calls out when it threatens his house.
Trump hater or not…
Speaking at a press conference at the Karlovy Vary film festival, where he was presenting his new film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Gilliam said: “It made me cry: the idea that … no longer six white Oxbridge men can make a comedy show. Now we need one of this, one of that, everybody represented… this is bullshit. I no longer want to be a white male, I don’t want to be blamed for everything wrong in the world: I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian… My name is Loretta and I’m a BLT, a black lesbian in transition.”
The one below and the embedded links are worth a look…
https://www.thewrap.com/terry-gilliam-tired-of-white-men-being-blamed-for-everything/
Well, Terry, I would tell you that it’s OK to be white, but…….
I’ve been saying it for years LOUDLY.
Good for him.
I always liked BLT’s but now you ruined it. The left has outlawed fun. I can’t remember how many times we played cops and robbers or army and whatnot when I was young. Nobody ever died, never thought about mass shootings didn’t know what they were. Paper bags was all we had until we had to save the forest. So we went to plastic now we’re back at paper.
We’re all going to die from the ice age, nope scratch that, global warming, no scratch that climate change and back to ice.
I kind of get the feeling that there’s money to be made in the doom world?
Geoff, you’re thinking of Terry Jones. Terry Gilliam did all their animation and occasional onscreen roles.
It’s not ALL white males – – it’s just LIBERAL white males.
Gilliam is an American.