What is "Girl Mode"

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A non question for actual women. What is "girl mode"?
To me it's a very youth orientated fetishy definition which feels a bit like My Little Pony.

I stopped calling myself a girl at the point I hit around 20 I think. I dont think of myself as a girl, I think of myself as a woman, especially once I had children.

I think it's odd to describe yourself as a girl if you are a middle aged man. I'm trying to imagine an older woman describing herself as being in "boy mode" and all I can think of is Jimmy Krankee.

Oh Eddie's described 'boy mode' before:

Eventually, he gave the crowd an offhanded primer about being a straight man with “male tomboy” tendencies: It’s about “running, jumping, climbing trees, putting on makeup when you’re up there.”

www.vulture.com/2017/06/eddie-izzard-memoir-believe-me.html

Girls don't run, jump or climb trees you see.

Crap my girl mode button has been broken for a long time then.

Male tomboy 🙄 so a boy then? What a dingbat.

As EI told Lorraine this morning, when Eddie does "dramatic" roles, Eddie's in "boy mode". The subtext there being girls (women, females) aren't taken seriously? Huh.

Maybe he could play Widow Wanky.

@CranberriesChoccyAgain

As EI told Lorraine this morning, when Eddie does "dramatic" roles, Eddie's in "boy mode". The subtext there being girls (women, females) aren't taken seriously? Huh.

Did Eddie really say that?! How can anyone take this seriously?

@CranberriesChoccyAgain

As EI told Lorraine this morning, when Eddie does "dramatic" roles, Eddie's in "boy mode". The subtext there being girls (women, females) aren't taken seriously? Huh.

I think the subtext is that there's better, and more lucrative, roles for men in boy mode than there is for men in girl mode.

I think the subtext is that there's better, and more lucrative, roles for men in boy mode than there is for men in girl mode.

There’s also better and more lucrative roles for 58 year old men in boy mode then there are for 58 year-old women in any mode. Funny that.

I apologise for not reading the full thread but if EI is transitioning at his age he is becoming a post menopausal woman. Does EI consider himself a middle-aged woman or a girl?

I’m just so disappointed by a supposedly intelligent gender querying person being so bloody shallow. If EI is a woman he needs to be a woman in his working life and when auditioning for movie roles.

Anything else is just playing at being woman!

I joined Bumble recently and every woman on there uses 'girl' to describe herself or 'girly nights out' or 'I'd like more girls', so...

It appears I've had my post deleted. @mumsnet would you care to explain why? Did I use the correct sex based pronouns for Eddie Izzard, or was it some other heinous crime?
It would appear that, over a week after my post, this thread is being patrolled by activists from mens sexual rights movements.

@LokiOdinson

I joined Bumble recently and every woman on there uses 'girl' to describe herself or 'girly nights out' or 'I'd like more girls', so...

I am a woman with adult female friends and family members and none of us describe ourselves as girls Because, er, we're not. Neither is Eddie Izzard.

Girl mode is what my young daughter does when she puts several skirts on at once and twirls about. Nothing to do with adults never mind adult males.

I always raise my eyebrows when anyone over 20 calls themselves a girl.

Oh are the monitors mad that as women we find 'girl mode' infantilizing? just more proof that they have no idea what it is to be female.

Go cry sweeties, and enjoy pretending your tears taste of sugar and spice and everything nice while you taste snakes snails and puppy dog tails. Dream state indeed.

The link above of EI describing the first time wearing a dress is unbelievable. The below, EI’s description of the reaction of 3 teenage girls after EI had changed clothes in the female toilets:

*I stopped and I turned around to face my teenage inquisitors.

I shouted back, “You want to know why I’m wearing a dress? I’ll tell you why.”

But before I could say anything else, the girls just screamed and ran off in the other direction. I was stunned. Wow. That wasn’t as hard as I thought.

I think that was the first time I was overtly intimidated because of my sexuality.

You assume older people intimidate younger people, but those three thirteen-year-old girls had power over a twenty-three-year-old man.

Maybe they turned out to be wonderful human beings. Or maybe they all now live in a tree. Whatever.*

The fact EI was stunned that 3 teenage girls were frightened when a 23 year old man turned round and confronted them, tells me absolutely everything about why EI has never and will never have the tiniest idea of what it is like to be a girl or a woman.

And I’m annoying myself by writing EI each time, but I don’t want to be deleted for using the wrong pronouns.

I have seen a video with a very similar scenario that was on YouTube last year. I can never find it again though. The girls were slightly older, maybe 14 -15 and were full of bravado till the male in a dress ran them out of the toilets and ran shouting at them up the road.

The complete lack of understanding why females need to question and, yes, react aggressively in that situation is so obvious. In those situations it is glaringly obvious that these males feel the entitlement to that ‘most vulnerable’ label that gets bandied around.

And then they continue to resoundingly disprove the label when they resort to typical male aggression....

Very enlightening. It is just as worrying the number of women who turn and blame the girls for their reaction. In fact, I am yet to hear someone who supports male inclusion in toilets provided for females explain why Izzard’s reaction as a 23 yr old male was appropriate at all. Including his thoughts and evaluation about the incident. It all seems to be handwaved away.

Scaring little girls. Yes don’t we all do this?

@GrimSisters

It appears I've had my post deleted. *@mumsnet* would you care to explain why? Did I use the correct sex based pronouns for Eddie Izzard, or was it some other heinous crime? It would appear that, over a week after my post, this thread is being patrolled by activists from mens sexual rights movements.

Make sure your strike (if you have one is accurately recorded for the date the post was made rather than the date your post was deleted). Last summer, I was given a second strike (ie was on a formal warning) for a post I'd made in February - on a thread which only had 5 posts on it.

The strike was revoked but never forget how diligent the monitors can be.

That's what girl mode really is - living in perpetual fear of male violence.

It's not much fun tbh.

It’s annoying enough when women call themselves girls - that sounds twee & infantilising. But girl mode is a whole other level.

Izzard’s talked before about liking makeup, nail varnish & heels being evidence of ‘girl genes’. Since I lost interest in all three of those in my early 20s, I must have ‘boy genes’.

I seem to have been in Waynetta Slob mode since March. Must try to find my girl mode so I can feel like a woman again.

@DialSquare

I seem to have been in Waynetta Slob mode since March. Must try to find my girl mode so I can feel like a woman again.