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Eddie Flipping Izzard

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ReluctantCamper · 01/04/2018 09:40

excerpt from his autobiography in which Eddie recounts:

  1. using the ladies loo to get changed, because why not. I mean he sometimes wears nail varnish so what woman on earth would object to having a poo or inserting a tampon with Eddie in the next cubical

  2. shouting at some teenaged girls who objected to his presence. This is totes empowering and women could definitely use this tactic when we're shouted at by men in the street and it wouldn't end with us getting beaten up.

You go Eddie. You're a fucking inspiration.

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Terfmore · 01/04/2018 10:54

This has not gone down well on our local LP facebook forum. So stupid on so many levels.

ElenOfTheWays · 01/04/2018 10:40

Most of what I remember about my first day walking around outside in makeup and a dress was fear. The fear of being stared at, which I knew I would be

Still not quite the same as the fear of being catcalled, groped or assaulted is it?

My heart bleeds Eddie.

CircleSquareCircleSquare · 01/04/2018 10:06

Most of what I remember about my first day walking around outside in makeup and a dress was fear. The fear of being stared at, which I knew I would be

Yay! My life since age 10.
25 years of fear I can’t identify out of.

I had such respect for EI being a man who wore make up and skirts etc., I think he did a lot of good for a huge amount of people. My very conservative in laws came around to his former way of thinking about clothes and make up purely because of him.

Terfragette69 · 01/04/2018 09:54

Shouting at teenage girls in the loo's, how very fucking brave he was! I always quite liked his comedy but now I just see him as a total creepy bastard.

whatwouldkatyactuallydonext · 01/04/2018 09:51

Also his panic trying to find a cubicle with a lock on...imagine the panic if it had been him standing in there and a single 13 year old girl coming in to use the loo?!
Which is what it will be like with self-id of course.

whatwouldkatyactuallydonext · 01/04/2018 09:47

"Most of what I remember about my first day walking around outside in makeup and a dress was fear. The fear of being stared at, which I knew I would be."

Wow, he's just described my whole teenage existence as a much-taller-than-average and very skinny girl. And actually almost every day since. (Luckily now entering invisible middle age.)

But he's so brave Hmm

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ReluctantCamper · 01/04/2018 09:45

yeah. he's a fucking let down.

man in make up who says he's a man = brave and unconventional
man in make up who says it makes him change sex = tool of the patriarchy

Really.

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Juells · 01/04/2018 09:42

How disappointing Sad