Which of these Empires do you have a higher opinion of: British, or Roman?

[If my soul was made of stone]

Why is this even a question?

There's another great clip from this movie relevant to... other threads that have gained traction lately. I almost hesitate to post it, but I will just as a reminder that some of these new ideas about gender are indeed VERY new to most people. And if you wanna sell them on these ideas which are hard to grasp for generations of people who were raised to believe strongly that sex=gender, you probably are gonna have to do a little better than trying to brow-beat everyone who raises any questions about these concepts and contradictions at all into submission. (Very stark contrast to the much smarter approach activists took to get people sympathetic to the idea of gay marriage.) Even a clearly left-leaning group like Monty Python could make a clip like this back in the day which would get them canceled on arrival today. Really telling how much and how rapidly things have changed:

can you not