Identity Crisis

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a b c Guardian Staff (24 May 2000). "Ben Elton: from Peter Pan to Maybe Baby". The Guardian . Retrieved 21 October 2022. A term used to describe a person or topic that has become so unpopular in the public discourse that to support it or even be associated with it could damage one's reputation Elton worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the musical Love Never Dies, which opened in London's West End in 2010. It was the sequel to Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (1986). [42] tranny' is used in Elton's book by characters who 'just don't get it'. It is seen as disrespectful. Trans-men or trans-women are biological males who identify as women, or biological women who identify as males.

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Incel is a conflation of the term Involuntary Celebate. An Incel is not necessarily someone who is celebate without wanting to be, but those men who publically express their frustration against women, often in threatening ways. Some radical Incels have called for rape to be legalised. That issue is the vigorous discussion between what might be termed gender-accepting and gender-critical groups over the rights of transgender people. One figure central to the Identity Crisis plot is transgender, another closely resembles Greer. Satire and comedy can help defuse the tension, he believes, across many of these social and political hot-button issues. His books have won the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award for Crime Fiction ( Popcorn), the Swedish Kaliber Award ( Popcorn), WH Smiths People's Choice Fiction Award ( High Society) and Prix Polar International Crime Writer Award ( Amitiès Mortelles for Past Mortem, French edition). [ citation needed] Personal life [ edit ]Nervousness about language is changing comedy, he accepts. "But on the whole I've always been a great supporter of what people sneer at as political correctness. I've always said that it's just good manners. On the whole I'm pretty supportive of the way things are going." Kennedy, Maev (10 January 2012). "Picasso, Cocteau and Chagall paintings to be exhibited at Lightbox in Woking". The Guardian. London. But it is–not surprisingly given Elton's decades-long conspicuous stands on progressive issues – about all kinds of politics, too: identity politics, gender politics, party politics and, of course, dirty politics. Relative Values: Ben Elton and his father". The Sunday Times. News UK. 15 March 2009. Archived from the original on 11 November 2014 . Retrieved 23 April 2015. I'm finally beginning to say something," says Elton, visibly upset. "I haven't said anything for 30 years. But it's been wearying. It just keeps coming around, every interview – 'So do you feel you've sold out?' Tell me what – apart from that Stewart Lee, whoever he is, thinks I have – might make you ask that?"

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An Olympic athlete, Jenner's high profile brought transgender issues into mainstream discussion when he identified as a woman and became Caitlyn Jenner in 2015. I've always liked Ben Elton without ever being his biggest fan but in this book, he genuinely spoke to me. This is relentlessly bubbly, irreverent (of course) and often very funny. No target is safe in this very-near-future world of Elton's and he fires shots seemingly indiscriminately. While most politicians have made up names it's obvious who is being sent up, for example, Bunter Jollye and Plantagenet Greased-Hogg - can't imagine who they are modelled on . . . Ashe, Eliza (1 December 2012). "What I know about women". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 21 October 2022. Stephanie Merritt (7 November 2004). Guardian Unlimited Books – Mystery Man . Retrieved 11 August 2011. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help)Ah, yes. Conversation has come around – as come around it must – to the "sellout" accusation. The idea that Elton – by writing musicals with Tory supporter Andrew Lloyd Webber, by MC-ing the Queen's golden jubilee concert, by allowing his song to score the inauguration of George W Bush – has betrayed the principles for which he once stood. "Which is quite simply," he says – blue touch-paper lit – "the most utterly unreasonable and wounding and extremely unhelpful narrative that has ever bedevilled a minor, middle-ground celebrity." Any of us could be misunderstood or misquoted or simply lied about at any point. I can't do anything about that. All I can do is write with the great care and diligence that I always do about the things that are affecting us all. I wrote a book about the environmental crisis 30 years ago." On a publicity tour for Past Mortem in 2004, Elton mused on the high school reunion theme and his own drama college reunion: Harry Enfield, Jo Brand, Julian Clary and more join Ben Elton for Friday Night Live | Channel 4". www.channel4.com . Retrieved 21 October 2022.