What is "Girl Mode"

I apologise for not reading the full thread but if EI is transitioning at his age he is becoming a post menopausal woman. Does EI consider himself a middle-aged woman or a girl?

I’m just so disappointed by a supposedly intelligent gender querying person being so bloody shallow. If EI is a woman he needs to be a woman in his working life and when auditioning for movie roles.

Anything else is just playing at being woman!

I think the subtext is that there's better, and more lucrative, roles for men in boy mode than there is for men in girl mode.

There’s also better and more lucrative roles for 58 year old men in boy mode then there are for 58 year-old women in any mode. Funny that.

Maybe he could play Widow Wanky.

As EI told Lorraine this morning, when Eddie does "dramatic" roles, Eddie's in "boy mode". The subtext there being girls (women, females) aren't taken seriously? Huh.

Crap my girl mode button has been broken for a long time then.

Male tomboy 🙄 so a boy then? What a dingbat.

Girls don't run, jump or climb trees you see.

Oh Eddie's described 'boy mode' before:

Eventually, he gave the crowd an offhanded primer about being a straight man with “male tomboy” tendencies: It’s about “running, jumping, climbing trees, putting on makeup when you’re up there.”

www.vulture.com/2017/06/eddie-izzard-memoir-believe-me.html

Don't know. What would be 'boy mode' for us?

The 'girl mode' wording conjures up images of Power Rangers.

No. Your period will still come.

Sadly thought and deed isn’t quite enough to flip into boy or man mode.

I’m fairly sure that aiming towards a urinal would not only be futile but will make my outside lower womanly person fairly wet.

Oooh, didn't realise it was so easy! Have spent most of today doing flat pack furniture and letting my arse hang out, if I stay in boy mode for the next few days I can avoid my period coming?

I've spent a lot of time on the toilet today, just musing, maybe avoiding stuff. Definitely in 'man mode' 🧔

Not sure. I think you are more of a Derek though. Dependable. Handy. (In a handyman sense re bending in front of the washer)

Brad sounds more handsy. As in he would take more pleasure in bending someone over the washer rather than draining it.

Crikey. A modey minefield and not the doddle I thought....

Andrew. Means 'manly'.

Derek or Brad. What’s a good ‘boy’ name?

Is your user name now Bruce then?

Hope you remembered to top up your testosterone in your builder’s tea and showed your bum as you bent in front of the washer.

Goodness, this flipping modes lark is a doddle.

My girl mode it broken today. It’s freezing so I am wearing chunky ‘men’s’ clothes, fixed the cupboard door, drained the washing machine, and been swearing like a trooper.

'Girl mode', or woman mode as makes more sense, to me, is being a survivor of domestic abuse, survivor of rape, having long term (though luckily not severe) body damage from childbirth, agonising periods most months, risk of cervical cancer and experiencing regular misogyny - haven't seen a transperson/non binary etc that actual wants any of those in their 'girl mode' though! Funny that.

‘Girl mode’ as a concept is a load of sexist, creepy, age-related boundary-pushing old shit unless you are actually female and under 18. Even then it can mean anything that a girl wishes it to mean.

Eddie Izzard will never be young or female however much he wishes it though. Sorry.

There’s many disappointments in most of our lives about unchangeable things, but if this is the worst of them and you also have the advantages Izzard possesses in life, then generally speaking you’re a very lucky person indeed.

Don’t they advise the government too?

Well, the trouble is that many TRAs argue that there is no such thing as a fetish involved in the whole business. So by Stonewall logic (and self ID) Stephonknee is completely as legitimate as any other transwoman.

[quote ArabellaScott]I presume Stephonknee is the epitome of 'girl mode'.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3356084/I-ve-gone-child-Husband-father-seven-52-leaves-wife-kids-live-transgender-SIX-YEAR-OLD-girl-named-Stefonknee.html[/quote]
I cannot imagine many genuine transgender people (those with diagnosed dysphoria and not indulging in a fetish) sympathizing with that. Acceptance without exception, eh Stonewall?

I see "girl mode" as a way of trying to convince people not immersed in (or have given much critical thought to) this ideology that once a man declares he is trans, women needn't feel that sense of trepidation we would if a man is in our single sex spaces. He's in girl mode, of course he wouldn't do anything untoward, lewd, or violent! It's why the TWAW mantra is so central to their activism... we (women) must not see them as male because we have deeply imbedded cautions around men we don't know in places where we might be vulnerable. Compelling and demanding we call them fully fledged women is an attempt to get our guard down, and they call us bigots for noncompliance because they know another huge part of female socialization is kindness and acquiescence.

They hate those of us who aren't having any of it.