Bill Maher stands up for Dave Chappelle to Chris Cuomo's face, blasts trend of kids choosing their gender: 'This is not crazy stuff that makes you a bigot'



Bill Maher — host of HBO's "Real Time" — defended comedian Dave Chappelle in an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo, who noted to Maher that Chappelle has a "long history of going after trans people," particularly in his controversial Netflix stand-up special "The Closer."

And Maher, during his wide-ranging Wednesday chat with Cuomo, also pushed back against the radical leftist notion that children can choose their own gender.

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Cuomo added to Maher that Chapelle's "homophobia is not as much of a push against him as what he says about trans people" and that the comedian now complains he's being "canceled" in the wake of "The Closer."

Maher replied that he's on "Team Dave" and is for "free speech."

After Cuomo asked, "Why?" Maher replied, "Well, you say 'going after.' You use terms like 'homophobia.' I was speaking recently about 'phobia.' There's a word that's traveled quite a bit from its original meaning. A lot of mission creep on that word 'phobia.' It's become ... a word [people use] to say, 'I don't like something.' Phobia means an irrational fear … [Chappelle is] not afraid of homosexuals ... [he's] not transphobic."

Maher continued: "This trans stuff is very new. I don't think he or myself or any other ... right-thinking person thinks there aren't such things in the world as people who are trans, who are born in a body that doesn't align with what their brain is telling them. That's OK. But now we're talking about children."

With that he noted that a woman acquaintance in her 40s recently told him she was a "tomboy" growing up — which presumably was in the 1980s and 1990s — and that had she come of age today "they would've made me into a boy here in California."

'This is not crazy stuff that makes you a bigot'

"So don't put it into this category of 'this is settled science — anything that deviates from the one true opinion on this means you're some horrible bigot and transphobic.' That's not what's going on here," Maher added. "And I don't think Dave Chappelle is transphobic. I mean, a lot of that special is talking about his opening act — who's trans! OK? It's like, 'Can we take a breath? Maybe we are going too far with the children part of this.' You know, kids should not be really making decisions about their gender. I mean, Mario Lopez was almost canceled for suggesting that maybe 3-year-olds shouldn't decide their gender. This is not crazy stuff that makes you a bigot."

While acknowledging that voicing such opinions "obviously has to be protected" — including when they come from Chappelle — Cuomo still pushed back against the comedian's "choice to make jokes about [transgender people]."

Cuomo added that criticism against Chappelle was along the lines of "you're punching down at this group. This is a discrete minority. They've got a lot of problems of being targeted and hurt. 'You are a powerful voice. And you making fun of them empowers the people who want to hurt them, whether you know that or not. Now that we've told you that, stop doing it.' Is that a bad suggestion?"

Maher admitted that while Chappelle is "a little obsessed with this one issue," it's likely he believes that "as a black man in America .... nobody in America except the Indians have had it anywhere near like the black folks have had it in America. So I can see why [criticism of him] would get under the skin."

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Pregnant supermodel Emily Ratajkowski says she and her husband 'won't know' baby's gender 'until our child is 18' and 'they'll let us know then'



It's become standard fare for leftist celebrities to proclaim they're letting their children choose their genders. And pregnant supermodel Emily Ratajkowski is the latest, writing in Vogue that she and her husband "won't know the gender" of their baby "until our child is 18" and "they'll let us know then."

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Ratajkowski added to her essay, "I like the idea of forcing as few gender stereotypes on my child as possible" but that she doesn't like "that we force gender-based preconceptions onto people, let alone babies. I want to be a parent who allows my child to show themself to me. And yet I realize that while I may hope my child can determine their own place in the world, they will, no matter what, be faced with the undeniable constraints and constructions of gender before they can speak or, hell, even be born."

Indeed, the woke pronoun thing is primed and ready to go.

Still, she acknowledged that she's asked her husband — actor-producer Sebastian Bear-McClard — if he wants a boy, and that "he refuses to give me an answer, swearing that he doesn't have a preference. But one Sunday as he's watching football he makes a remark about how it'd be fun to have a little boy to watch with."

Ratajkowski said she shot back, "Girls watch football, too!"

One thing's for sure, though: The supermodel has fears about raising a son — particularly due to the child's inevitable whiteness.

"I've known far too many white men who move through the world unaware of their privilege, and I've been traumatized by many of my experiences with them," Ratajkowski wrote. "And boys too; it's shocking to realize how early young boys gain a sense of entitlement — to girls' bodies and to the world in general. I'm not scared of raising a 'bad guy,' as many of the men I've known who abuse their power do so unintentionally. But I'm terrified of inadvertently cultivating the carelessness and the lack of awareness that are so convenient for men. It feels much more daunting to create an understanding of privilege in a child than to teach simple black-and-white morality. How do I raise a child who learns to like themself while also teaching them about their position of power in the world?"

'Nothing worse than the undisturbed sleep of a white man in a patriarchal world'

She then shared a story about a friend's struggle with white males — namely her husband and new baby boy:

My friend who is the mother to a three-year-old boy tells me that she didn't think she cared about gender until her doctor broke the news that she was having a son. She burst into tears in her office. "And then I continued to cry for a whole month," she says matter-of-factly. After a difficult birth experience, she developed postpartum depression and decided that she resented her husband more than she'd ever imagined possible. She told me she particularly hated — and she made an actual, physical list that she kept in her journal, editing it daily — how peacefully he slept. "There is nothing worse than the undisturbed sleep of a white man in a patriarchal world." She shakes her head. "It was hard to come to terms with the fact that I was bringing yet another white man into the world. But now I adore him and can't imagine it any other way." She also eventually learned to love her husband again. The sound of his perfect sleep next to her at night is now tolerable.

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Ratajkowski is no stranger to expressing left-wing views. She publicly backed Democratic socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in 2016 and took some heat for partnering with Planned Parenthood a year earlier. But in fairness, Ratajkowski in 2017 said she stood up for Melania Trump after a New York Times journalist called the first lady a "hooker."