The cognative dissonance of Lorraine

To be fair to her Lorraine is a popular lightweight entertainer and not a journalist or political commentator. It's not her style to challenge or push a particular agenda. She's made her career by saying the right thing, to the right person, at the right time, in the right way.

I don't think she's thick at all. A very shrewd and hard working individual. Would have loved a GC kickback against Eddie on morning telly but we'll need to leave that to someone else!

I just watched the interview on YouTube and it's like watching Take Your Pick with the contestant fearful of saying the wrong thing and getting the gong.

It's not an easy or enjoyable interaction for Lorraine. At best she is humouring or playing along with Eddie, at worst she's taking the p*ss

“Hoist by your own Izzard”

Brilliant @OhHolyJesus

enough about girl and boy mode, how about adult mode?

I've always thought she's a bit thick
Same. No redeeming features imo.

@Lordamighty ah yes, fair point!

Testes and ovaries are the same thing coded differently, in the same way feet, and ears are all the same thing Eddie- they're all made of human cells.

But they're different kinds of cells. FFS Eddie, get out of the public eye and do GCSE Biology or something. If I hear any more quotes about him having boy and girl "genetics", I may snap.

I can’t even watch it as it’ll make me too angry but Lorraine has always been “TV-lite” - shes hardly a hard-hitting journo. You can tell she’s just going through the motions - you can practically see her thinking about what she’s going to have for lunch, they could stick a Lorraine-a-like robot in her place and you wouldn’t know the difference.

Eddie Izzard is just an attention-seeking cock. I really wish he would go away.

Whether smart or not Lorraine isn't helping.

When Hannah Graf said that many women are infertile and unable to have children and claimed to belong to that group Lorraine ummd and ahhd sympathetically.

At 61 and decades in the business she knows Eddie from old. She knows exactly what is going on, does nothing and tilts her head in support. She has a grown up daughter doesn't she? Maybe when she becomes a grandmother she won't mind her daughter evening called a pregnant person and herself a grandparent and not grandmother. Maybe someone like Eddie will be her daughter's health visitor or midwife and that will all be fine with by Lorraine.

Hoist by your own Izzard.

I have no interest in anything Lorraine says and I don't need her to shut up but I wish she wouldn't pander quite so much. ITV hasn't been stonewalled though, they have Piers Morgan.

A boketastic interview

Great thread title op, but isn't it total insincerity rather than cognitive dissonance?

Gym? 😄 Ftm obviously. Bloody autocorrect

Didn't see the program, but he in all seriousness said testes and ovaries are the same thing, just differently coded? That will be like your ears and eyes, nose and mouth are all the same then, just differently coded. They're all sensory organs, just be glad nature didn't mess up and code one of your ears like a nose!

Oh Eddie. This is just gaslighting and it’s so unpleasant to see. I appreciate Eddie constantly stresses the pronoun thing is ‘not a demand’ and has their head on straight enough to understand where JKR is coming from. But then these sort of displays are just nonsensical, and the Twitter nitwits bollocking on about misgendering are unbearable.

That ‘boy mode’ suffices for Eddie’s serious dramatic work says it all. When Lorraine fancies a change from morning TV she could do the voiceover for the Two Minute Hate.

How can there be a genetic component? Is there a gene that can make someone identify with a stereotype, or hate the body they were born with? Seems like cod-science.

Makes me totally understand the tax dodge claim that's she's the "character" Lorraine on tv and not the actual Lorraine.

Lorraine is absolutely selectively confrontational. Very rarely, and does it extremely well - it seems completely unscripted and yet never receives any negative publicity from it as she manages to seem brave but completely parrots the popular view (so actually completely uncontroversial) - c.f. Jennifer Arcuri.

She only monsters clearly unpopular people though, and only when they have no power to get her into bother.

I just read an article about this interview. Never have I been so disappointed by anyone as I am by Eddie jumping on the bandwagon.

I used to have such massive respect for Eddie and now I can barely even bear to look at Eddie.

Lorraine did refer to Eddie as him in the opening intro then suddenly switched later on (soneone Had had a word)

Eddie said he didn't mind which was used.

Is he us saying he is a woman? Or just in girl mode? We'd address drag queens as she when presenting as such (and him if they appear out of drag)

I doubt very much that ITV has been stonewalled. I hope eventually a bit of tolerance kicks in because I'm just a bit sick of the nastiness. Make a point but make it well.