Terry Gilliam faces backlash after labeling #MeToo a 'witch-hunt'

Guardian ^ | Sat 4 Jan 2020 | Edward Helmore

[yesthatjallen]

The director Terry Gilliam has invited renewed backlash after repeating his claim that he is a “black lesbian in transition”, assailing the #MeToo movement as a “witch-hunt” and asserting that some of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged victims are “adults who made choices”.

The website PinkNews offered swift condemnation, calling the 79-year-old’s comments “a feeble attempt to prove that white men are the real victims”.

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Gilliam said he was “tired, as a white male, of being blamed for everything that is wrong with the world”.

On to the #MeToo movement, he said: “I want people to take responsibility and not just constantly point a finger at somebody else, saying, ‘You’ve ruined my life.’”

He continued: “#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.”

The director saved his most inflammatory comments for Weinstein, the former movie producer who faces trial on criminal sexual assault charges in New York next week.

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[elcid1970]

The Pythons had their standards. They never attacked the Royal Family with the exception of Princess Margaret, but only because her personal life made her fair game in their view at that time.

If Princess Di or Fergie or the current royal horrors had lived as adults in the Pythons’ golden age, they would have been shredded unmercifully.

Python humor was IMO aimed at those in the British establishment who failed to live up to a then not yet obsolete ideal. WWI and WWII were much in living memory at that time, and it would not do to suggest that the enormous sacrifices made in those wars had been in vain.

The Pythons were on the Tory side of things and only pretended to be outrageous iconoclasts.

[gibsonguy]

Yes he was but if you take on the left you always have to thnk strategically