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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Eddy Izzard says women should be forced to share bathrooms with men

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Hithere12 · 05/05/2019 11:58

m.youtube.com/watch?v=eFs7RfJZEIM

I can’t believe what I’ve just watched. Eddie Izzard is on Joe Rogan saying ALL bathrooms should be gender neutral and completely dismissed the concerns women have that Joe brought up. He dismissed it as “people always complain when there’s change”

The whole thing is so selfish and entitled.

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AndromedaPerseus · 05/05/2019 18:28

The V&A have gender neutral toilets and they are now in a generally disgusting state with pee on the floor and they stink. I was also treated to the naked backside of a man as he hadn’t bothered to close the toilet door while he was doing his business. Tristan Hunt this is not progress!

Fedupflo · 05/05/2019 18:32

He used to be fab but sadly he's just a twat now. Talk about a life lived backwards.

NottonightJosepheen · 05/05/2019 18:32

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FloralBunting · 05/05/2019 18:35

What an odious shit he's turned out to be.

I mean, I'm still going to be saying 'cake or death?' a hundred times a day, but it will be tinged with the same sense of sadness I get when I watch the Avengers movies and remember that Don Cheadle and Mark Ruffalo are total, unthinking wokebros.

Hithere12 · 05/05/2019 18:38

Maybe I misunderstood what he said - but I think he meant that all toilets should be enclosed cubicles, single room, floor to ceiling door/walls, toilet, mirror, sink, like most disabled toilets

No he didn’t, he just said “get rid of urinals”, not redesign nearly every pubic toilet in the country. And he went on about how mixed toilets are great because apparently they’d stop bullying in schools, so that’s not what he meant.

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Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 05/05/2019 18:38

What what?

I like don cheadle...whats he done

Hithere12 · 05/05/2019 18:40

I was also treated to the naked backside of a man as he hadn’t bothered to close the toilet door while he was doing his business

Oh my god this literally happened to me two weeks ago at a Chinese restaurant 🤮 so even shared toilets that are completely enclosed don’t work!!!!!

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Gingerkittykat · 05/05/2019 18:53

Does EE identify as trans or just someone who dresses up? Is he officially transitioning or just likes jumping between the two?

As for the Romans having open plan toilets does anyone have evidence to refute that? Single sex is not just a modern Western thing, and many societies are far more sex segregated than us. I read about women in India sneaking out to the fields in the dead of night to toilet to avoid men.

FloralBunting · 05/05/2019 18:55

Rufus, oh, he did a virtue signally post on Twitter some time ago 'in support of trans kids' against all those nasty people that want them not to be sterilized and shit. Ruffalo liked it iirc. Cheadle doubled down hard when he was challenged by those nasty Twitter feminist types and it all got a bit ugly.

lookatallthepeaches · 05/05/2019 19:08

What difference does it make Jessica Wakefield? I don't see how they're less safe than cubicles in a room.

There are usually 2 doors between toilet rooms with cubicles as I think stipulated by planning laws. But unisex single room enclosed disabled toilets open directly onto the public area. Why is this dangerous?

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 05/05/2019 19:09

Oh now thats a real shame...

lookatallthepeaches · 05/05/2019 19:10

Also, I was having trouble setting up my account last night but really wanted clarification on this, so I screen shotted, is this true and does anyone have a link?

Eddy Izzard says women should be forced to share bathrooms with men
JessicaWakefieldSV · 05/05/2019 19:12

What difference does it make Jessica Wakefield? I don't see how they're less safe than cubicles in a room. I suggest you go and do some research, the data shows that any unisex toilets have a higher rate of assaults on women. We need separate ones away from men.

lookatallthepeaches · 05/05/2019 19:15

Can you direct me to the research that differentiates between these types of cubicle? Because I've looked and I can't find it.

Jedeye · 05/05/2019 19:18

My experience of sharing public toilets with men is that they stink of piss. There really are so so many reasons for not sharing.

BertrandRussell · 05/05/2019 19:23

“I was disappointed when John Clees turned out to be a boring, whiney sexist”

He always was. Have you heard Miriam Margolyes on the subject or the Puthons?

BertrandRussell · 05/05/2019 19:25

*pythons.

IrishGal21 · 05/05/2019 19:26

Cant wait foe this.......not

Eddy Izzard says women should be forced to share bathrooms with men
CharlieParley · 05/05/2019 19:29

wigglybeezer IIRC 10% of males are afflicted with a shy bladder. My boys completely refused to use the toilets at primary school unless in dire, dire straits. Used to have to get home very quickly at pickup time as they were usually desperate. For my boys probably a combination of their revulsion at the state of the boys toilets and not wanting to go in a shared space. And these were single-sex toilets (the girls toilets were much cleaner btw).

And 250,000 miscarriages happen in the UK every year, many in public toilets.

As for the idiot male of the day, I lost all respect for him when I saw his griping about the incident with the teenage girls.

But and this is a big but, I am ever so delighted to report that his example has proven incredibly helpful in illustrating just how insane the current situation is.

While talking to your average person who repeats the TWAW mantra or says things like "identifies as a woman" or gives you the usual half arsed talking points about "most vulnerable", "most marginalised", I like to bring up Eddie Izzard. A lot of the time, the penny drops there and then. Not just because he is so well known, but because those who do know of him, know that he has always maintained that he was simply a man who liked to wear dresses, that he is straight, successful, well off and a big bloke. And while this isn't much discussed, they do know that he crossdresses for his own pleasure.

And he doesn't fit their idea of the homosexual transsexuals who are so distressed at their male body that they undergo radical procedures such as castration and emasculation with subsequent cosmetic surgeries to construct a simulacrum of a vulva.

Truly, a useful idiot if there ever was one. A Not a nice judgement of him by any measure, but no man appropriating womanhood and supporting the abolition of women's sex-based rights deserves even an iota of respect from me.

Datun · 05/05/2019 19:36

To find someone funny, you have to have a certain empathy with them. Whether it's vulnerability, or a shared experience. There has to be some kind of connection.

Otherwise they're just a cunt.

There is no repeat experience because it's not pleasant enough to put yourself through it again.

And now Izzard, who used to be bloody funny, and seemed fairly analytical about the fact that he was a man wearing women's clothing, is just another self entitled, male cross dresser - bandwagon jumping to serve his own ends.

If he wanted to jump into a cohort, it's the wrong fucking one, mate.

Entitled, patriarchal men, aren't bloody funny. They're two a penny.

foreverhanging · 05/05/2019 19:37

Eddie izzard can fuck the fuck off

ChattyLion · 05/05/2019 19:38

I used to love Eddie Izzard back from cats drilling behind the sofa days. I can’t stand him now, he’s reinforcing gender stereotypes not messing with them. What a disappointment he is.

NeurotrashWarrior · 05/05/2019 19:57

Banging on about having a simple pop.

Menstruation?

Miscarriage?

Wanker.

OldCrone · 05/05/2019 20:01

lookatallthepeaches

Links for Datun's figures.

Nine out of 10 changing-room sexual complaints relate to incidents in unisex facilities — although they make up less than half of all provision.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sex-pests-target-women-in-mixed-changing-rooms-x3vw2lnv8

fairplayforwomen.com/examples/

men are responsible for 85% of all indictable crimes in England and Wales, 88% of crimes against the person, 90% of murders, and 98% of sexual offences (all for the year to June 2012).

fullfact.org/crime/bad-and-dangerous-know-do-men-commit-almost-all-crime/

That figure is for 2012, but I don't think it's changed much in the last few years. Current figures will be on the ONS site.

welshgendercrit · 05/05/2019 20:04

"I used to love Eddie Izzard. He was funny, intelligent, kind and genuinely happy to be a gender nonconforming man. These days he's just your standard middle aged pervy bloke."

This. In the 90s DD and I absolutely loved his shows and to be honest the best of them are still brilliant. Fast forward 20 years and I couldn't bring myself to watch more than a couple of minutes of that interview. What a self-centred, entitled letdown he is. Not just feet of clay, but all of him.

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