Michael Conroy exposes the DARVO in Izzard's teenage girl trauma

I'm going to see Grayson in December and I'm going to compose a question to ask. Along the lines of is 'Clare' really necessary. Why not 'dress Grayson?'

He's just taken the underground wearing make up and a dress, no problems at all apparently? No mention of issues whilst out to lunch either. The only villains in his story are literally the children pointing out that the emperor looks weird...

It's odd isn't it?

Yeah, teen year old girls aren't going to follow a weird old man home/around the streets? Maybe some projection?
Are tiny, roving gangs of teen girls a problem for grown men in the UK?

He's just taken the underground wearing make up and a dress, no problems at all apparently? No mention of issues whilst out to lunch either. The only villains in his story are literally the children pointing out that the emperor looks weird...

Thanks for the medium link op, that was fun to read.
I think Eddie told everyone much more than he intended.

It's very good - Love Michael Conroy - he really is brilliant. We don't have enough of the Michael Conroy-love on here.

It's also thanks to him that we have the Mermaids training recording with the jelly-baby-genders presented as fact.

I saw Izzard in London in 1995 and even then he was making jokes about being a ‘lesbian trapped in a man’s body’

When I was in my late teens I used to imagine that if I were a man I would be gay......But i'm not a man, and I'm not gay - itv was simply an expression of different aspects of myself.

"Ah yes, I read that earlier. Eleven grand - and that's just the hair transplants."
Total tangent here, but I do seem to notice a lot of the AGPs are balding. It has made me wonder if the desire to have hair again dovetails in some way with the desire to see themselves as female. Long hair seems like some sort of marker of femininity to them, and contrasts somewhat with their disappearing hairline. What comes first, the desire to be a long-haired woman or the desire to not be a balding bloke?

I used to watch Eddie Izzard regularly when he was the compere at Screaming Blue Murder in Hampton Wick. He was brilliant. But then he grabbed a woman’s handbag and started to empty the contents out whilst giving a cutting commentary about them. She grabbed the handbag back and left the room and Eddie said “I can hear it buzzing” aka she had a vibrator ha ha ha

Ha ha.

Not just calling a spade a spade? Why is speaking the truth ‘shaming’ these days?

Grayson Perry? His alter ego seems more like a dolly than a girl. He still knows he’s a man though.

I think the potter person who dresses in women’s clothes I don’t know his name but he said he totally got off on it when walk-in ing out dressed in his lady clothe

I used to adore Eddie izzard, and I used to find his confidence in wearing what he wanted very sexy. But seeing him in some of those outfits really hits home how narcissistic this whole thing is.....

I used to think, but why would a man feel comfortable dressed as a woman, knowing that everybody is going to be staring at him, maybe hassling him, drawing a lot of attention to himself, why would someone actually feel more comfortable like that? But now it's becoming more and more obvious, that that's the point - being stared at, looked at, pointed at, hassled, that's what they want. It's worrying.

And also, i heard that interview with Frank Skinner a few months ago when it was repeated on radio 4. It's about 15 years old. Eddie izzard very clearly says that he is mostly boy, with a little bit of girl. Well, then, that's not transgender, is it!!??? And he says that when he wants to get acting roles in Hollywood he rocks up in suits and stubble, acts all manly, all macho - hmmmmm. That's not transgender either, is it!!?? So quite obviously he is not entitled to muscle in on women's rights.

I’m still chortling at the photos of him getting off a transatlantic flight in miniskirt and long boots, full slap. Yes because that how we women all dress to take a long flight.

I used to really like Eddie Izzard. But, even before he turned out to be a sexist, I started having doubts about him when I heard this interview. He talks about politics and he just comes across as a blatherer. You can almost hear Frank Skinner thinking 'Jesus he talks some amount of bollocks'.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mkbyl

I'm another one who used to like Izzard went to see him a couple of times. Wouldn't do it now. Just a creepy old AGP.

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Talking of middle aged crises and hairplugs....

www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/spent-11k-hair-transplants-still-not-enough-look-natural/

What the hell did I just read?

Author David Thomas still lives as a man, but has begun the male-to-female gender transition that will eventually result in becoming a woman.

Becoming a woman? 😨

Eddie hates women. I remember reading a rather chilling interview where he talked about possibly wanting a baby, and how he would just get a surrogate.
Women do not exist as real feeling people to him, they only exist as props or annoyances or fetishes.

Love the link in the OP. I hadn’t actually read that Izzard guff before.

Ah thanks Rave - still there on my feed but I couldn't find him! Iirc he had a problem with someone setting up very similarly named copycat troll accounts so looks like he's renamed himself.

Couldn’t Thomas just have bought a wig? Would have saved £10925. What a total waste of money.

Ah yes, I read that earlier. Eleven grand - and that's just the hair transplants.