"I'm a left-wing dyke and I love it. I love being a lesbian. I'm not going to apologize for that. It's great fun."
""I was very keen on grammar," she said, explaining that it was challenging for her when she learned that some people prefer to use they/them as a singular pronoun. But a trans actress, Zoe Terakes, explained it to her in a way that made sense. "She said, 'What does it matter to you?'" Margolyes explained. "'If you can make somebody happy by calling them 'they' instead of 'he or she,' why not do it?' I thought, that's right. It doesn't matter about grammar.""
""It's important because I'm Jewish," she said, "and it's very important that people realize that all Jewish people are not killers, they're not b***ards. It's not like that. This is just a section of the Israeli people that are like that, not Jewish people, and I want that to be known and understood and be clear.""
Miriam Margolyes identifies proudly as a left-wing lesbian and expresses enjoyment in being a lesbian without apology. A trans actress, Zoe Terakes, clarified the use of singular they/them for Margolyes, prompting her to prioritize making people comfortable over strict grammatical rules. Margolyes positions herself as a vocal supporter of Gaza and frames that stance through her Jewish identity, emphasizing that not all Jewish people support violent actions. She insists that a segment of the Israeli population, rather than Jewish people as a whole, is responsible for certain harmful actions and describes those actions as wrong.
Read at LGBTQ Nation
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]