Insanity beyond belief. If anything disables a person from discharging their duty to serve this would be it. Involved ongoing “maintenance” to manage the charade is disruptive. Hormone “therapy” and the managing of it, the several-times-daily “dilation” of the fake female part to keep it from healing closed, and the highly elevated mental instability would all be non-starters by any other recruit.
Life of Brian.
Scene 8: The Grumpy People's Front of Judea
The sketch:
trumpets
clap clap clap
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen. The next contest is between... Frank Goliath, the Macedonian baby-crusher, and Boris Mineburg.
BRIAN: Want some...
VOICE: Thank you, fellows.
BRIAN: Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar. Tuscany fried bats.
JUDITH: I do feel, Reg, that any Anti-Imperialist group like ours must reflect such a divergence of interests within its power-base.
REG: Agreed. Francis?
FRANCIS: Yeah. I think Judith's point of view is very valid, Reg, provided the Movement never forgets that it is the inalienable right of every man--
STAN: Or woman.
FRANCIS: Or woman... to rid himself--
STAN: Or herself.
FRANCIS: Or herself.
REG: Agreed.
FRANCIS: Thank you, brother.
STAN: Or sister.
FRANCIS: Or sister. Where was I?
REG: I think you'd finished.
FRANCIS: Oh. Right.
REG: Furthermore, it is the birthright of every man--
STAN: Or woman.
REG: Why don't you shut up about women, Stan. You're putting us off.
STAN: Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg.
FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It's my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But... you can't have babies.
LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.
REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: crying
JUDITH: Here! I-- I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What's the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can't have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.
The wussification of the military!
I love this 40 year old Monty Python skit in THE LIFE OF BRYAN.
http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/8.htm
JUDITH: I do feel, Reg, that any Anti-Imperialist group like ours must reflect such a divergence of interests within its power-base.
REG: Agreed. Francis?
FRANCIS: Yeah. I think Judith’s point of view is very valid, Reg, provided the Movement never forgets that it is the inalienable right of every man—
STAN: Or woman.
FRANCIS: Or woman... to rid himself—
STAN: Or herself.
FRANCIS: Or herself.
REG: Agreed.
FRANCIS: Thank you, brother.
STAN: Or sister.
FRANCIS: Or sister. Where was I?
REG: I think you’d finished.
FRANCIS: Oh. Right.
REG: Furthermore, it is the birthright of every man—
STAN: Or woman.
REG: Why don’t you shut up about women, Stan. You’re putting us off.
STAN: Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg.
FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me ‘Loretta’.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It’s my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
LORETTA: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But... you can’t have babies.
LORETTA: Don’t you oppress me.
REG: I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: crying
JUDITH: Here! I— I’ve got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can’t actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans’, but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What’s the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.
We are paying. I knew that the holy grail for the left was to set things up so we are forced to pay for sex-”change” operations, abortion, euthanasia and aids care.
Try to get out of that one. It’s in effect. It’s your tax money. You can’t escape it. “Land of the free” eh?
I can see it in the near future..
You call you’re detailer trying to get some new orders and he replies back “You’re up for gender reassignment”.
Government is getting sicker and sicker.
Hmmm. As Rush might have said, addadickctomy surgery is now free.
China is busily arming and training, intent on world domination, and we’re fiddling with our genitalia. Amazing. This will not end well, at least not for us and our clever little experiment in self government.
Give them a dull rusty pocket knife.
It didn't seem all that long ago either. The world is truly upside down.
btt
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, render unto God what is God’s. But hey, those are just words that have no meaning anymore, as there are no “patriots” alive today.
WTF?
Because I like Raquel Welch out of curiosity one day I sat down and watched Myra Breckinridge even knowing it was one fo the worst movies ever made. The opening scene is Myron getting trans surgery to be transformed into Myra. The movie was indeed bad but having endured it I put it out of mind thinking it was pretty obscure as movies go and I would probably never see it again. Little did I know in recent years reality is like living through the movie again.
WELCOME TO HOTEL CALIFORNIA all doors are open.
My “Buy American” attitude is quickly fading away. Why would I want to support this?