Suzie Eddie Izzard

Was it because I mentioned the well-known fact that fetishes escalate?

Can you ever imagine it being something that a woman would say, though? "Yes, I'm 64, but I'm not ruling out having children in the future!"

I'm knocking on 50 and overweight and if somebody asked me whether I might at some point want to try to represent Team GB in the Olympics, I would laugh in their face; I wouldn't say (in any kind of seriousness) "Well, never say never!"

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Now, how will the toxic sewer sew it on a sampler?

No woman thinks about having children at 64. Only men do.

How curious.

Isn't Hamlet a recognised male part that's almost exclusively portrayed by male actors.......

Jeeez, he’s not planning on having kids. He just said “never say never”, that doesn’t mean anything, it’s just something people say!

A man does. That’s who. Someone who will be cushioned from the actual birthing and the risks involved with that, and generally not the person who is the default parent and doing most of the work.

If a woman expressed a desire to have a child in her 60s there would, rightly, be uproar. Eddie has a lot of support for this because he is a man.

Another selfish, entitled male. Every time I think he’s hit peak dickhead, he proves me wrong.

Taken by an MNer & says it all really.

He’s such a dick

He still gets work and I guess he still gets admiration from some people but he's lost a lot of fans who previously admired him because of his nonsense.

There is absolutely no reason for Eddie to use the female facilities. He has said himself that he is not a woman but he sometimes goes into 'girl mode' in his leisure time. His professional work is all as a male.

It's not ok to tell women his fetish overrides their right to comfort, safety and dignity.

Lots of appreciative comments about both his comedy and his gender non-conforming stance. Natural people want to discuss his more recent volte face to saying he is sometimes a girl.

Single men and surrogacy is a bit of an item at present.....plus Eddie is such a big let down, and an arrogant one at that.

I agree. It feels like this thread was started just to start some trans-bashing.

Yeah, there's definitely a rush of empathy for anyone who's lost their mother at a young age, and then sent to boarding school.

And to have that emptiness and sadness continuing throughout life is doubly so.

And there's no doubt that Eddie Izzard was a very clever comedian and a likable character. Albeit coming across as quite complex.

Which makes it even more frustrating and depressing that he swans around with the entitlement of any other middle-aged man, and a bit more. Especially now everybody knows about AGP.

I mean, FFS, Eddie way to crash your cred.

Yeah I think the Daily Mail are rage baiting a bit.

I would hope he's aware it wouldn't be fair to actually father a child in his 60s (though he wouldn't be the first).

I still like Eddie in some ways and feel sad for him losing his mum age 6 and then being sent to boarding school. He said in a previous interview that his household was very male after his mum died - just him, his dad and brother. I know it's cod psychology but I always wondered if that was one of the things that led to him cross-dressing / identifying as trans.

Elderly comedian still hasn't figured out that what's cute at 25 and edgy at 40 gets creepy by 60.

Izzard may well fancy women. I doubt it's reciprocated much these days.

Adding my voice to the former admiration of Eddie Izzard. I absolutely loved him. DP and I saw him at the Opera House in Belfast and were really impressed when he strode out in leggings and heels, make up and dangly earrings. I honestly thought he was a fantastic example of someone who was comfortable with who he was and how he presented himself. But my love for Eddie Izzard died when started yakking on about girl mode and then there was that awkward photo of him standing in the queue for the women’s toilets (looking like a reject from The Dick Emery Show.) Sigh …

The story is very much one of mildly leading him on and then picking on what he said.

'No, I would, I would like to have them but umm...' "

Add 'had' between have and them and it would have been nothing at all to see.

That doesn't mean that Izzard doesn't have major issues that seem to be whacked onto the table or in women's spaces. Having looked at some old routines: they are very witty. Now it is boundary pushing.

Absolutely this. 90s Eddie: my hero. I can still recite Definite Article and Glorious virtually word for word. Absolutely brilliant to see a gender-non-conforming man (and he never EVER said anything about being a woman) being out there, unapologetically, and bloody funny with it. I had DA on video tape and even my parents started off with "What the hell is this" and ended up laughing along. Cake or death, Jeff the God of Biscuits, being an action transvestite - comedy genius.

And now...he is demanding access to women's spaces despite women saying they don't want him there, and boasting about scaring teenage girls. I feel very sorry for him that he lost his mother at such a young age - the comments in the article about feeling 'dead inside' must be awful for him, and it echoes with a comment he made in one of his routines about Diana's death ("My mother died and no-one gave a shit"). But if that's how he feels then he needs therapy, not adulation for wearing womanface.

I agree so much about loving his comedy in the past. I went to see him live 5 or 6 times in my youth. But now? Jeez. Almost the worst thing, almost .... he "switches to girl mode". Girl? GIRL? He's in his fucking 60s! Surely at best (and obviously still utter nonsense) he "switches to 60 year old post menopausal woman mode".

If we can identify into a younger age then I'm 12 and I'd better go coz I've got double maths.

Perfect response

Surely that makes him a trans exclusionary bigot then?