Eddie Flipping Izzard

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excerpt from his autobiography in which Eddie recounts:

1. using the ladies loo to get changed, because why not. I mean he sometimes wears nail varnish so what woman on earth would object to having a poo or inserting a tampon with Eddie in the next cubical

2. shouting at some teenaged girls who objected to his presence. This is totes empowering and women could definitely use this tactic when we're shouted at by men in the street and it wouldn't end with us getting beaten up.

You go Eddie. You're a fucking inspiration.

How disappointing

yeah. he's a fucking let down.

man in make up who says he's a man = brave and unconventional
man in make up who says it makes him change sex = tool of the patriarchy

Really.

"Most of what I remember about my first day walking around outside in makeup and a dress was fear. The fear of being stared at, which I knew I would be."

Wow, he's just described my whole teenage existence as a much-taller-than-average and very skinny girl. And actually almost every day since. (Luckily now entering invisible middle age.)

But he's so brave

Also his panic trying to find a cubicle with a lock on...imagine the panic if it had been him standing in there and a single 13 year old girl coming in to use the loo?!
Which is what it will be like with self-id of course.

Shouting at teenage girls in the loo's, how very fucking brave he was! I always quite liked his comedy but now I just see him as a total creepy bastard.

Most of what I remember about my first day walking around outside in makeup and a dress was fear. The fear of being stared at, which I knew I would be

Yay! My life since age 10.
25 years of fear I can’t identify out of.

I had such respect for EI being a man who wore make up and skirts etc., I think he did a lot of good for a huge amount of people. My very conservative in laws came around to his former way of thinking about clothes and make up purely because of him.

Most of what I remember about my first day walking around outside in makeup and a dress was fear. The fear of being stared at, which I knew I would be

Still not quite the same as the fear of being catcalled, groped or assaulted is it?

My heart bleeds Eddie.

This has not gone down well on our local LP facebook forum. So stupid on so many levels.

This will end his career right???

Cry me a fucking river, Eddie

Boo hoo, Eddie.

I used to love him but I can't stick him now.

*Terfmore
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What are people saying? What's the issue with him being in this role?

(I'm assuming they're not aware that he feels empowered by scaring teenage girls in public toilets?)

I used to love him as a comic before he got TV famous.
I think he's just a twat now and this kind of shit for brains thinking just confirms it.

Here's an older thread about Eddie Izzard with some interesting thoughts and arguements -

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/2959353-Eddie-Izzard

Awww I was watching his stand up routine at the Reading Festival in the 90s when he 'came out' as a transvestite. I thought he was ace then. What the hell happened?

I heard him recount this story on Loose Ends on radio 4. All the other guests, men and women, chuckling along at the humiliation of these teenage girls. The whole story and reaction really solidified to me how much teenage girls are hated. (Which I also see a lot as a secondary teacher running school trips). Screaming evil bitches scaring the nice vulnerable trans person. I would hazard a guess they were working class girls (therefore even more hate-worthy) as naice middle class girls would have probably swallowed their anger and confusion and turned it in on themselves.

I honestly think his anecdote about the teenage girls is made up. Doesn't ring true.

I do too

I've always thought he was an attention-seeking twat.

I despair of Labour.

#LabourLosingWomen

Except from 'Believe Me'. I don't Eddie. Your story is a lie.

I think he contributed to thousands of undecideds voting for Brexit because of his hectoring performance on Question Time just before the Referendum. Utter tool.

As there's no Christine Shawcroft thread, I'll just post on here that given a choice for Labour's NEC (which I suspect sparked this thread) between the person who conspired to ensure that a Holocaust-denier was chosen as a Labour candidate and someone who chose to change clothes in a ladies public loo while dressed as a woman and shouted at three girls following him and publicly mocking him, I'll go for Eddie Izzard.

And FYI, I am strongly in favour of MN's stance on self-ID and I'm a woman, but if 3 teenage girls were following me and mocking my clothes, I'd probably be inclined to shout at them to piss off too.

At the moment, I'm just deeply relieved there is one less voice standing up for anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers at the top of Labour. Though of course Shawcroft is still a member, despite calls to expel her...

But incorrigiblyplural why does our choice have to be between someone who supported a holocaust denier and a person who doesn't even know women have boundaries, let alone respects them. Surely Labour can do better than this?