Sunday, March 06, 2011

Politically Correct in the UK

This article reveals to what extremes political correctness has gone in the UK. New Home Office regulations give privileges to transgender inmates. Already the prison guards must refer to inmates as 'Mister' so and so. Now they've got to be more specific because some of the inmates mustn't be referred to as 'Mister' but 'Miss'. The fellas who think they're girls are to be allowed padded bras, make up to cover their beards and separate shower facilities. (all of this courtesy of the British taxpayer of course...) Finally, once they have legally become Jane and not Tarzan they can apply to be transferred to a female prison.

I think there is room here for a fantastic comedy film. One of the old fashioned sort of British Ealing comedies which starred Alastair Sim (pictured) The pitch is--One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Some Like it Hot meets Belles of St Trinians meets Cell Block H. Two guys who are prisoners in a British prison decide that their lives are in danger so they decide to be transsexual and get transferred to a women's prison only to find that the conditions there are even worse. The women prisoners are a nastier lot than they anticipated so they try to get back to the men's prison, only to find that their 'operation' has been planned and there's no turning back. So they have to escape in order to save, ermm, their future.

I'll write the script. Anyone want to put up the money?

Or there is this continuing saga in Britain in which a Christian couple have been denied the right to be foster parents because their Christian faith leads them to disapprove of homosexuality. They've been told that they shouldn't even plan to appeal the judges' decision because they don't have a chance of it being over turned. "There's no place for Christianity within the British judicial system" they were told.

By the way, the same article on trans-gendered people in British prisons adds in a final paragraph that pagans in British prisons already have the rights to have ceremonial robes, wands and days off to celebrate the pagan holy days.

There's another movie waiting to be made: Porridge meets The Wicker Man meets Shawshank Redemption meets Harry Potter...

9 comments:

Paul Stilwell said...

The first one is actually a really good idea, and hope you do write the script.

Though I'm not exactly a fan of him, I can picture Will Ferrel in one of the two roles. Tim Roth also comes to mind...

Is there even one actor alive today who comes close the Guinness?

A'ine said...

Similar things have happened here in Canada with regard to inmates, and foster parenting, etc.
Where I live, in Ontario, OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Plan) will cover a sex-change operation, but won't cover other things that are, shall we say, more medically necessary...

shadowlands said...

'mad dogs and englishmen, go out in the noonday sun'

Anthony Brett Dawe said...

yo

great line of all time:

'Strike me down Darth... '

Sir Alec Guinness

[had he been to Mass young padouwan? ED]

Robert H said...

We are not that far behind. New US passports will no longer list mother and father, rather parent 1, and parent 2. Plus the Church can no longer process adoptions in Massachusetts since they will not facilitate adoptions for gay couples. Without a serious change of direction we will soon have our own Health and Safety Agency.

Please continue informing us as to where we are headed here in this country.

Anthony Brett Dawe said...

Robert

indeed

if you read the entire 'advisement' by the High Court justices in England they use the adjective 'infect'. i.e. the Christian couple were going to 'infect' the child with anti-homosexual biases.

Animal Farm meets Brave New World

and 'mental hygiene'

this is a page straight out of Himmler and the backstreet Blackshirt boys btw... and y'all thought I was in jest... oh, Anthony is spouting off again

uh huh

just tellin yah, as we Scots say.

Anthony Brett Dawe said...

who that be in the wicker man then?

[aye, gotta be so nice and politique dontchaknow ED]

only when i get cesored do i know i'm hitting paydirt...

Anthony Brett Dawe said...

addenda

'censored'

{thurible... geddit Ed]

romishgraffiti said...

And so it begins. I predicted that legal same-sex arrangements lead to something like the Test Act. Case in point: A guy working at Brooks Brothers was managed by a woman who entered a same-sex "marriage". The guy tried to keep quiet, but the manager kept badgering him until he confessed that he didn't believe it was a real marriage, and HE was fired. This is why I worry about Catholics who go mushy with things like, "well, as long as they don't call it marriage, it's ok". No dice. Evil doesn't stop until it has your face in the dirt and forces you to give your assent.