Maya Forstater has never harassed anyone , dead or alive, and she never will. I brought her up with good values and I am proud of everything she does .
My daughter Maya is fighting for herself, for women and for Free Speech . JK Rowling just gave her some support . The case is entitled The Think Tank that was afraid of Thinking.
Maya harassed no one at work did not use hate speech or express anti trans views . She tweeted that sex is immutable and cannot be changed. This idea offended some of her colleagues. Instead of allowing a discussion her cowardly think tank employer decided not to renew her job.
You can stay silent until that happens.
Or you can speak up.
It doesn't matter if you are late to the party (we are all late compared to
@bindelj
)
If the only thing stopping you is feeling bad because you haven't said it before, stop feeling bad.
Jump in the water's warm.
@HairyLeggdHarpy
@zeno001
Thanks . I am immensely proud of her . She has taken on a powerful enemy and is fighting for the right for women to express ideas without being fired for doing so. She is not against trans men or trans women. Her think tank employers were afraid to allow thinking so she was out.
Meta (ie Facebook ) is spending 10bn to create a metaverse . The Tory government spent 38bn to create a track and trace system that doesn’t work . How was this possible ? Where did the money go ?
One memory is when I was walking her to school . She was 5 or 6 . She must have realised then that death was our ultimate destiny. She wondered why more people didn’t commit suicide .
1978 on the set of The Odd Job . I met Graham in 1974 when I produced Monty Python and the Holy Grail and he asked me to produce his own film . A lovely man who died too young .
Mayawould never harass anyone or create a hostile work environment . She was fired for expressing her ideas about sex which offended some of her co-workers . No hate speech just ideas about sex . Ideas are what think tanks are meant to discuss not to fire people for having them
Spamalot has reopened on Broadway and Monty Python and the Holy Grail will have a 500 cinema release in the US over Christmas. This film of mine goes on and on .
@NyssaDogFriend
@watcher_korra
@BigSkyWithStars
@Donna_Beeeee
They were offended by her ideas. She didn’t use any offensive language . She was writing about international development issues since all development funding is made on the basis of sex and not gender. To discuss self identity in such a case is what policy makers have to do .
@Picky_Nyki
@seja_bondoso
Maya had raised funding from the Gates Foundation for her next year’s research so her work was ongoing. The work was stopped by her employer solely because of their fear of having a discussion about the issues she was raising . A think tank that refuses to think !
Graham Chapman died today in 1989. We made Monty Python and The Holy Grail and The Odd Job together. A lovely man, original quirky mind, destroyed by alcohol.
@markforstater
Mark your daughter is a shining light to many of us women who are fighting for our rights, in the current toxic environment. You have a brave daughter 😘
@MForstater
yeah i looked through your timeline and was like...i....i don't see anything bad haha. thanks for compiling this, i really want to make a video about it, i think the way you've been treated is absolutely unfair.
A lawyer told me that Maya and I are the only father and daughter listed in the Law Reports ( I think they are called ) . I don’t know if this is true .
@ripx4nutmeg
Since hearing the word cisgender I always thought it was an ugly sounding word and did not use it . Now that I know that it was created by someone who thought that sexual relations between adults and children are beneficial to the child I don’t think anyone should use it .
The Junkers were military farmers. They had no idea about trading on a stock market . The Jews could . Jewish owned department stores outperformed German owned ones by giving credit and accepting returns . There was a great deal of envy at their economic success .
Wednesday 19th February at 8pm: the BBC's
#MoralMaze
will be discussing the pledge which slurs WPUK &
@AllianceLGB
and calls for expulsions from
@UKLabour
We will be taking part
@BrainMutant
We are still working away at getting the funding to make it . We have a great script and a great director - we are missing the great money
The judge admitted that UK Law admits only two sexes so how can that also be ‘ not worthy of respect in a democratic society’. He’s a judge ! Isn’t the Law what he is meant to uphold . I don’t get it.
The Judge concluded that Forstater’s belief that sex is immutable ‘is not worthy of respect in a democratic society’. This would mean that the current scientific consensus is not 'worthy of respect in a democratic society' - and that is surely wrong.
@MForstater
My film Monty Python and the Holy Grail is screening Sunday at the BFI Southbank introduced by the delightful Carol Cleveland . It’s the Python 50th. For some reason no one told me about the screening. I’m not bothered.
48.5 years after its first release my film Monty Python and the Holy Grail is being re-re-released in the USA . It’s still just as funny as when we made it .
Very sorry to hear about Neil Innes . A great talent who wrote a terrific score for Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He really was The 7th Python. Eric Idle owes him a great deal .
Thanks to JK Rowling's brave and unexpected intervention people are talking about my case around the world. I have had so much support &💜. I'll let you know about my next steps & what that is going to take in due course. But in the meantime...there are other women using the law
The judge admitted that in UK law there are only two sexes. Maya’s beliefs about sex are based on science. Law and Science - how does this become ‘unworthy of respect I’m a democratic society .’
“Maya Forstater was sacked because she believes sex is real and a man cannot become a woman. A judge said her views are ‘unworthy of respect in a democratic society’. This is outrageous. People are now being punished for expressing biological facts.”
Brendan O’Neill on talkRADIO
Correct to say would be: "She posted a link to an article".... but then that doesn't support the view that I am a "very rude person" who believes all TW are "walking sex offenders" or that my engagement "shed more heat than light" .
Maybe these things are just not true?
@TraherneJoe
Thanks Joe . But as you see she knew her own mind from early on . Of course I am very proud of her - she did something most people would shy away from .
Today the sun is shining in London . But the world is suffering and we are being dragged into more of it . If we hate we increase that suffering . Is that what God intended ? Is hate good for the planet ? Is hate good for people ?
I don’t think so
There is a still a huge audience for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which I produced . The revenue is being held up while the Python accounts are being investigated . This is why Eric is complaining .
20 years ago Jo Manuel and I published The Spiritual Teachings of Yoga. This book has been a godsend to yoga student teachers trying to understand the philosophy behind their practice.
Neil Innes completed a new Rutles album but Eric wouldn’t let him release it . Neil had to sell his house to pay for the album costs . Ask Eric about this .
@EricIdle
I don't think life is ever easy regardless of how much money. Time for another Rutles album, but make sure one track is completed with AI. Nod to Sir Paul. ;)
@markforstater
It was a sunny morning walking down Mansfield Rd. I think I realised that everyone dies, and I wondered why people didn't just cut to the end.
What projects - practical, craft, creative, whatever - have you undertaken during your
#StayHome
?
I'll start. Decorated one bedroom and planting and tending a chewed up lawn.
You?
Some of Maya’s younger colleagues were offended by her ideas. Instead of discussing them which you’d expect a think tank to do they decided out of fear to close down discussion and fired her. If you met her you would find her fiercely intelligent but not rude.
My tickets for Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the BFI arrived . First time I’ve had to buy tickets to see one of my films. Cost cutting exercise by the BFI? Or did they think I was dead? Eric Idle probably hopes so.
@MForstater
So the Think Tank that refused to think has now morphed into the Think Tank that is unbelievably foolish. They will end up trashing their reputation - or is it already trashed ?
@EricIdle
Quote from
@ThatEricAlper
"After movie studios declined to finance "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Jethro Tull, George Harrison, and Elton John did it instead."
I'm guessing after the drugs wore off there wasn't much left.
I have been blocked by Eric Idle . Is it because the Pythons are claiming that Spamalot the movie is not a spinoff of Spamalot the musical but a remake of the Holy Grail.