MONTY PYTHON HEAVYWEIGHT versus THEY/THEM RAPE ADVOCATE INDIAN MP
By Susanne Delaney
In a podcast last year, an Indian Green Party MSP (a Scottish version of an MP) spoke about “THE DEMONISATION OF RAPE”, adding that the crime existed on a “SPECTRUM”, “none of which is any worse or less or more worse” (a grammatically redundant sentence, giving Jason Arday vibes).
To his comments I say—always believe people when they tell you who they are.
The “trans/non-binary” Indian immigrant (asserted by the BBC) was elected to the Scottish Parliament on a TEMPORARY student visa. I guess the Monty Python boys were wrong. Supreme executive power does not derive from a mandate from the masses after all, but rather from some farcical immigration loophole.
Now “Q Manivannan” (who is a poet—perhaps his next poem could be titled “Rape Isn’t REALLY Rape?”) has obtained a “graduate visa” and in 2029 he will apply for a “Global Talent Visa.” He uses “They/Them” pronouns and is in the running to become the rector of the University of St Andrews.
Monty Python co-founder
@JohnCleese stated: “As a former rector of St Andrews University, I respectfully urge its students not to support someone who tries to understate the appalling psychological effects of rape.” Cleese has been increasingly vocal on matters relating to “woke”, Islam and immigration.
Previous rectors have included Rudyard Kipling, a celebrated author and poet (best known for “If” and “The Jungle Book”) who was a fan of imperialism—which wouldn’t go down well today with university students.
We have clearly fallen hard as a society, going from literary and comedic stalwarts as rectors of universities to an Indian “non-binary” “trans” rape advocate and apologist who coasted into parliament on a temporary visa. It is existential absurdity at its finest. Monty Python would have had a field day.
As for Kipling, he warned us about modern intellectual rot in the 1919 poem “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”.
He observed that societies decline when they abandon basic, unalterable moral truths until they are ultimately forced back to reality: “And the Hearts of the Meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true, That All is not Gold that Glitters—and Two and Two make Four.”
Perhaps today he would add “a piece of paper doesn’t make you a native of that country” and “a man in a dress does not a woman make”.
He would probably (in our unfortunate times) be critical of “Q Manivannan, who says he would support “queer and racially minoritised students” if elected. But what about rape victims?
His remarks about rape were reported after May’s Scottish Parliament election (the “anarcho-syndicalist commune?”) and he was criticised by the Scottish Rape Crisis Alliance, which accused him of minimising sexual violence.
He has not been removed from his position. But imagine if he had said something like “men can’t be women”?
“Apologising”, he said: “I am horrified that my comments were selectively edited in order to mislead people and misrepresent me. I also accept that my language was abstract in the first place.”
Yet surely if he is worthy of the rector’s role, he should realise rape is not an abstract academic exercise—it is a horrific crime, and semantic wordplay can’t take away from the fact that he equated an act of torture with something that is not a big deal, and perhaps is even okay.
It is remarkable that this is where we are—and it can be hard to stay sane in our current times. It can also be hard to speak up, for fear of what we might lose. But IF we don’t speak up we will lose everything, and that is not a matter of if. It is a matter of WHEN.
Which brings me to the perfect Kipling quote:
“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you…
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!”
…(Instead of a they/them in a delusional world!)