Olivia Colman: “I’ve always described myself to my husband as a gay man.” 🙄

Yes, I agree.

Yes, I would concur absolutely! I think she was wildly miscast as QEII.

If I was feeling extremely generous, I might wonder if she was doing this as some reverse psychology to protect her children from indoctrination.

I think some have jokingly suggested it in the past - when your mum identifies as ‘queer non binary’, no self respecting kid would touch ‘identities’ with a barge pole.

Sadly I’m not sure she’s that bright.

I thought she was great in The Night Manager. I loved the book, but I'd caveat that by saying (i) Le Carre was not very good at writing women - the way he wrote Jed was much more focused on her desirability to men than giving her a personality, and (ii) the male version of Burr was a slightly identikit character, not badly written but nothing he hadn't done a dozen times before. So making Burr a woman added an extra dimension to the story, and OC did it brilliantly.

I also hated her in The Crown - Claire set that bar so high and she was nowhere near it.

But I loved her in Fleabag, Broadchurch, The Favourite. I think she's versatile though there is a certain OC quality about everything she does (a bit like Emma Thompson in that regard).

IKWYM but I felt that was demonstrating the character ageing and having ever heavier responsibilities.

She was my least favourite of the 3 queens, but still good I thought.

Interesting, because I thought she wasn't. I thought she was great in Fleabag and The Night Manager, but terrible in the Crown. Her voice and mannerisms were wrong, she seemed too limited, too uptight. Quite the contrast to Claire Foy. It could have been the writing, but her performance lacked the warmth and nuance that Claire brought to the role. Just an opinion.
No hate!

I thought she was great in the crown.

Don't you think she just plays herself, a slightly quirky/goofy person? Funny in the car insurance ad and Peep Show downhill thereafter.

I like Olivia Coleman, she’s so good in everything she’s in. Whenever you see her interviewed you get the impression she says the first thing that comes to mind, and is towards the slightly bonkers end of the scale. There’s probably a long list of ill advised things she’s said.

I don’t think she looks butch at all. She looks like a woman with short hair. The gay man thing is ridiculous.

What a ridiculous thing to say, she really is insufferable.

I don't hate her, I just find her embarrassing. She's basically pleading, "Yeah I know I'm straight but I'm not just straight - I'm surely interesting enough to belong on the alphabet somewhere, sort of...aren't I??"

...at a time when more and more self-respecting gays and lesbians are saying, "Please don't include us in your increasingly silly alphabets."

Hislop has pretended all this isn't happening and has pooh poohed anyone pointing out the impact on women's rights.

He couldn't GAF. Misogynistic asshat that he is.

Taking the piss out of her extremely insulting claim to identify as a gay man is not hate. You must lead a very sheltered life, as well as having poor recall of the oppression and physical abuse gay men and women faced some decades ago. I doubt you were even born then if that's your recall of the times.

She's a biological woman, very comfortable in life, in an opposite sex marriage, and has given birth. Indeed, she made a big deal in the first series of The Night Manager of being pregnant and having the role adapted around that. I saw the interview she gave at the time.

Claiming that she feels like a gay man is homophobic and needs calling out. Deservedly so. She should be proud to be a woman and teach her children that, not waffling some ill-fitting, idiotic, gobbledegook.

I'm not sure they'd bother. Hislop was - and remains - a massive disappointment on all this. The Eye should have been all over the absurdity of the gender identity movement at least a decade ago, but according to Glinner Hislop said it just wasn't an issue.

They've hugely dropped the ball here.

That's just it, isn't it? Years ago - I was a teenager in the 90s - you just 'weren't a girly girl'. I mean, at that time there was more of a move towards being a 'ladette' anyway (not that that was a great thing, in hindsight, as it generally meant women behaving like male stereotypes in order to find acceptance).

And some days I am full slinky dress, heels, flicky eyeliner and lipstick. Other days I'm shorts and trainers while up a ladder fixing something. Do I have to hand in my ovaries on the latter days? Do I get them back when I've conformed?

It could fit there or in Luvvies. It's totally ridiculous. Will our heroes accuse Ian Hislop of staggering hate if he puts it in?

10 or 15 years ago I dont really remember NB being a thing, one might have said they weren't a "girlie girl" or they were more of a tomboy, just different styles/attitudes of being a woman....like strangely, being female doesnt mean we all look/think/dress/behave the same way....sometimes we can even think or dress differently from day to day....and still be female!! Mind boggling!

You'd think by 52 you'd be past that point tbh

Love Olivia Colman but this is so silly. Surely she'll look back and cringe.

Woman with short hair = man, non binary or butch. Jesus.

Oh yeah she's totally lovely looking!
Butch women can look great too but I wouldn't class OC as butch in the slightest.

She also doesn't look as if she's had shit done to her face which I appreciate (or rather, didn't look like that in the last thing of hers I watched which TBF isn't current).

Ah come on now. I'm sure she's many things but unattractive is not one of them. I think she's stunning actually - I could look at her all day. Shes not 'butch' in the slightest

She's not butch 🫠