What is "Girl Mode"

Izzard’s talked before about liking makeup, nail varnish & heels being evidence of ‘girl genes’. hmm. Since I lost interest in all three of those in my early 20s, I must have ‘boy genes’.

Me too, Empress. The weird thing is, I seem to have menstruated and then gone through a female menopause despite being a boy. Doctors and scientists are baffled ...

Well for the girls and I know a few because I have a teen girl. Being girly appears to be about working hard at school complaining bitterly to your Mum all the while, ordering customised T-shirts off RedBubble and making your Mum pay for them, wearing hijab and arguing with teachers about whether they're school colours or not - dd has lots of Muslim friends - eating large quantities of toast and buying vast amounts of stationery at Smiggle or WHSmith.

Fuck off Eddie et al.

Truly a miracle, Tinsel. I'm amazed scientists aren't queueing up to investigate this 'virgin birth'!

He's in girl mode, of course he wouldn't do anything untoward, lewd, or violent!

Rather contrasts with the post I just saw on facebook, directed at women with ptsd, informing us that if we were raped by a transwoman we weren't raped by a man but by a woman with a strap on, because women rape too.

They tell us this all the bloody time, that women rape too. Which means a male in 'girl mode' is not automatically lovely and safe.

Oh I've just realised I'm mixing my cartoons up, Pepe Le Pew's girlfriend was a cat disguised as a skunk, and it was Bugs Bunny who would wear lipstick to disguise himself as a woman. Soz.

Do you remember when Pepe Le Pew's girlfriend looked just like Pepe but with lipstick?

Well women’s running U.K. twitter account seems to know... oh yes they did...

Oh god, I did not know about girl mode but I have an insufferable employee who has described himself to me as-and these are actual quotes ‘a man with a female brain’ and ‘a male lesbian’ as he likes the colour pink and ‘girly’ things. I would describe him as a sexist twat who is scared of women. But for the sake of harmony he just gets and eye roll and ‘oh, right’

I seem to have been in Waynetta Slob mode since March. Must try to find my girl mode so I can feel like a woman again.

It’s annoying enough when women call themselves girls - that sounds twee & infantilising. But girl mode is a whole other level.

Izzard’s talked before about liking makeup, nail varnish & heels being evidence of ‘girl genes’. Since I lost interest in all three of those in my early 20s, I must have ‘boy genes’.

That's what girl mode really is - living in perpetual fear of male violence.

It's not much fun tbh.

@GrimSisters

It appears I've had my post deleted. *@mumsnet* would you care to explain why? Did I use the correct sex based pronouns for Eddie Izzard, or was it some other heinous crime? It would appear that, over a week after my post, this thread is being patrolled by activists from mens sexual rights movements.

The strike was revoked but never forget how diligent the monitors can be.

Scaring little girls. Yes don’t we all do this?

I have seen a video with a very similar scenario that was on YouTube last year. I can never find it again though. The girls were slightly older, maybe 14 -15 and were full of bravado till the male in a dress ran them out of the toilets and ran shouting at them up the road.

The complete lack of understanding why females need to question and, yes, react aggressively in that situation is so obvious. In those situations it is glaringly obvious that these males feel the entitlement to that ‘most vulnerable’ label that gets bandied around.

And then they continue to resoundingly disprove the label when they resort to typical male aggression....

Very enlightening. It is just as worrying the number of women who turn and blame the girls for their reaction. In fact, I am yet to hear someone who supports male inclusion in toilets provided for females explain why Izzard’s reaction as a 23 yr old male was appropriate at all. Including his thoughts and evaluation about the incident. It all seems to be handwaved away.

The link above of EI describing the first time wearing a dress is unbelievable. The below, EI’s description of the reaction of 3 teenage girls after EI had changed clothes in the female toilets:

*I stopped and I turned around to face my teenage inquisitors.

I shouted back, “You want to know why I’m wearing a dress? I’ll tell you why.”

But before I could say anything else, the girls just screamed and ran off in the other direction. I was stunned. Wow. That wasn’t as hard as I thought.

I think that was the first time I was overtly intimidated because of my sexuality.

You assume older people intimidate younger people, but those three thirteen-year-old girls had power over a twenty-three-year-old man.

Maybe they turned out to be wonderful human beings. Or maybe they all now live in a tree. Whatever.*

The fact EI was stunned that 3 teenage girls were frightened when a 23 year old man turned round and confronted them, tells me absolutely everything about why EI has never and will never have the tiniest idea of what it is like to be a girl or a woman.

And I’m annoying myself by writing EI each time, but I don’t want to be deleted for using the wrong pronouns.

Oh are the monitors mad that as women we find 'girl mode' infantilizing? just more proof that they have no idea what it is to be female.

Go cry sweeties, and enjoy pretending your tears taste of sugar and spice and everything nice while you taste snakes snails and puppy dog tails. Dream state indeed.

Girl mode is what my young daughter does when she puts several skirts on at once and twirls about. Nothing to do with adults never mind adult males.

I always raise my eyebrows when anyone over 20 calls themselves a girl.

It appears I've had my post deleted. @mumsnet would you care to explain why? Did I use the correct sex based pronouns for Eddie Izzard, or was it some other heinous crime?
It would appear that, over a week after my post, this thread is being patrolled by activists from mens sexual rights movements.

I joined Bumble recently and every woman on there uses 'girl' to describe herself or 'girly nights out' or 'I'd like more girls', so...