Monty Python's The life of Brian - I want to be a woman
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HN uses it as a joke or as an early example of satire about gender identity in threads on those topics.
What it is
A clip from Monty Python's Life of Brian in which Stan says he wants to be a woman and have babies.
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Cites coldtea · 2018-06 · on “The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond (2006)”
> It's the priests and priestesses of postmodernism that gets people's backs up isn't it, not so much the concept(s) itself. Yes, that. Especially since the concept itself was never meant to be something one can opt to follow or not follow -- just a description of the reality we're in. It's not that we're "postmodernists" that is, but that we live in a "postmodern" world -- and so we can't be anything aside from that. As for Peterson, I see him as something orthogonal from postmodernism. He is someone that talks from a traditional values standpoint in an era where different norms are becoming the mainstream. He doesn't say anything outrageous, in the sense that what he says would be common a