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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago

Context: when asked how he felt about JK Rowlings transphobia he said

One thing: When a woman who was once a man is competing against women who have always been women, I think she has an advantage, because she inherited a man's body, which is usually bigger and stronger than a woman's Does that prove phobia?"

and

I want to be a Cambodian police woman, is that allowed?

Maybe instead, Cleese should consider that, as a writer, one must take responsibility for one's work, even if that work is intended to be comic, that does not inure the writer from consequence or criticism.