New project idea. Extended essay. Close textual analysis of the Loretta scene in Life Of Brian. Does it mock or support transgender people and politics? Given that the scene was created in 1978, I would be interested to see how it holds up in the context of contemporary attitudes. Trans politics was still in it’s relative infancy in the late seventies of course, so how have the attitudes depicted in the scene aged? I was on one of the Monty Python Facebook fan groups yesterday, and many of the commenters seemed to think it was transphobic. However, they meant it in a good way, which of course didn’t really sit well with me. I therefore think it’s now worth me going back to the scene and doing a bit of proper analysis, just to try to work out what the Pythons actually meant with it. I’d be interested to hear what everyone else thinks of it too.