Eddy Izzard says women should be forced to share bathrooms with men

At 49 I've decided that men are just horrible, horrible selfish, egotistical, manipulative cu&ts. They only think of themselves and they have no empathy for anyone.

to see Eddie Izzard revealed as not only a sexist and misogynist but also a man who thinks women's rights are his to give away - that's grim.

Yes indeed it is.

"We're all on the spectrum"

No we're not. I'm an adult human female, heterosexual, end of. I'm not joining you on your spectrum to validate you.

What a load of bull. Eddie has seriously lost the plot. He can't even explain his own answers, he's like a spoilt child.

I have a list of men whom I shall never forgive for their betrayal of women. Izzard is near to the top of it.

Same here. I was disappointed when John Clees turned out to be a boring, whiney sexist but to see Eddie Izzard revealed as not only a sexist and misogynist but also a man who thinks women's rights are his to give away - that's grim.

There's a particular type of man who is determined that women and girls must share toilets and changing rooms with him. He's precisely the sort of man who should not be allowed anywhere near girls or women when they are vulnerable / undressing.

It's time that this was made very clear.

My DS has open plan gender neutral toilets at school, he refuses to use them as he is too embarrassed that people walking past, especially girls would hear sound effects.
My DH has a shy bladder, it literally clamps shut if he feels self conscious, he can't even go at home if he thinks I'm within earshot, there's no way he would use mixed sex toilets, it was really bad at one point and he had to have CBT on the NHS as it restricted the amount of time he could spend out of the house. I'm sure there are others similarly afflicted.

"So a 11 yr old girl just starting her period is sharing a toilet space with a 6ft 2 burly male trucker......."

-could be an opening line to his next comedy gig. His last one ie. this absurd interview was f&&&king hilariously.............unbelievable lol

Eddie the "male lesbian"? (Because pink beret + heels = woman)
No. Fuck off Izzard. What a disappointment you are.

I dread nightclubs becoming unisex. When you add drunken males into the equation behaviour gets a lot worse.

The kind of men who want to be in the women's loos with girls are exactly the kind of men I don't want my DD sharing with.

Correct.

As someone said earlier, it's funny how quickly we've moved from 'transwomen aren't safe in the men's loos so they need to be in the women's' to 'all men should be in the women's, because we don't need single sex toilets at all'.

It also, as an aside, creates yet more work for women. DD was getting to an age where she can go to the loo alone when we're out. Not now though. I always go with her.

The kind of men who want to be in the women's loos with girls are exactly the kind of men I don't want my DD sharing with.

It was Eddy Izzard who had a run in with some teenage girls in a female public toilet. They chased him down the road. It obviously still rankles.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/sep/10/eddie-izzard-trying-to-get-mother-back-victoria-and-abdul

Public toilets

Male insistence that females surrender boundaries = rape culture

I think this is just going to become my mantra

He is certainly not a cunt. Cunts have warmth and depth.

You're a man, Izzard: this is why you don't and will never be able to get it. Women's rights to privacy and safety are not something belonging to men that men can choose to be generous about or not as the mood takes them.

As for 'people always complain at change' - oh fuck off you over privileged twit. Many women will lose all access to services if men get to commandeer women's services and provisions. Calling that 'complaining' makes you sound like some Edwardian colonialist. This is a racist, sexist, homophobic, misogynistic, disablist agenda. Own it.

A man with a chipolata.

What's the word for someone who furthers his own career by giving away other people's hard-won rights at no expense to himself?

A man.

I hate the shared individual gender neutral toilets too - I have to sit on a toilet to change my tampon etc where there are wee splatters on the floor, and the seat is left up, so I can’t put my bag down to get stuff out and I have to touch the toilet seat first. Gross.

Male insistence that females surrender boundaries = rape culture.

It's actually worrying that someone in politics can just completely disregard women from patriarchal religions and just casually give away their access to toilets in public. Surely someone wanting to be an MP/MEP etc should be aware of the needs of their potential constituents. That's before coming to how little everyone else wants unisex toilets.

Guess he's showed us who he is though.

So, he thinks that young girls going through puberty don't need to have a separate space in which to deal with starting periods etc. He thinks he's more important than their desire for single sex spaces.

Ignoring all research and evidence that forcing mixed sex spaces will mean girls don't go to school.

Nice.