Izzard - womanhood not a 'mode'

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That's it. Womanhood is not a 'mode' It's a biological reality - no on and off switch. Nor is it a feeling in a man's head. The sheer arrogance is astonishing.

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11053273/Eddie-Izzard-sports-fresh-platinum-blonde-pixie-cut-pink-mini-dress.html

Comeback and tell us about 'girl mode', Eddie, when you've nearly died from being female.
(So many ways for this to happen, from sex-based violence to childbirth)

I will not be calling him she. That's for sure.

Girl-mode for the thrills, boy-mode when he has something important to do like a big-money acting role.

If only women had the same opportunities. Instead we're stuck living in woman-mode all day every day despite the inconvenience and dangers, while he engages in some sort of gender tourism.

There are a lot more acting roles for 60 year old men than 60 year old women. So it's handy that Eddie doesn't need to be a woman full time.

Imagine if a white actor sometimes dressed up as a stereotypical black person and said they were in 'black mode.' But stayed in 'white mode' when it was convenient.

I can't say everything I really think about Eddie because I'll get a strike, so I'll just say that I'm so incredibly disappointed that he turned out to be so incredibly sexist. Dresses and make up don't only have to be for women and girls, what irks me is the "modes", but I honestly find the false breasts offensive.

This.

Why do we think the DM has been so gushing?
I get that the article is click bait but the tone surprises me.

It's all for the comments.
Same as when they post unflattering bikini pics with descriptions of how amazing the person looks, then wait for all the outraged comments contradicting them.

I also don’t understand the tone of the article. Dressing in traditionally female clothing is easy. It’s the rest of being a being a woman, that’s hard.

You can put lipstick on a pig...

Unfortunately Izzard is in that modern trans group that involves part time cross dressing men. Who now feel entitled to call themselves women when they feel in the mood.

Even India Willoughby had problems with this a few years ago.

To me this is one of the daftest branches of transgenderism and one where we see the dodgiest looking unpassable males feeling free to come into women's spaces.

If Izzard wants to up his cross dressing that's his prerogative, but to say he is a woman makes him look utterly foolish, no matter how well regarded he has been, save for a tiny amount of cognitive dissonance diehards.

This is the new thinking. Yes, there have been different social expectations for men and women in every culture. But ours is the first culture where if you dress according to the norms of the opposite sex, people are supposed to pretend you are the opposite sex.

Does anyone know what ED's stance is on women's rights? Does he expect to be allowed into women's spaces when he's wearing a dress?

I don't really mind the phrase "girl-mode", so long as no one actually thinks it means anything! I do see how it adds to the generally batshittery, but if he's not an actively campaigning TRA then I'm not sure he should be held responsible for their actions.

Izzard wants to inhabit a stereotypical idea of femininity, some of the time. I find that a bit distasteful, but wouldn’t prevent people doing it by law. For me the infinitely more dangerous thing is the idea that, when Izzard puts on stockings and a wig, Izzard becomes a woman and we all have to call Izzard ‘she’. It’s wholly The Emperor’s New Clothes, and I don’t have an emperor so Izzard can jog on.

Which loos will he use at the airport?

Total narcissist.

Since he stopped just being a bloke in a dress it all just feels a bit... try hard. Like work is boring 'boy mode' but endurance is 'girl mode' is it? Well great! That really f*ing makes up for thousands of years of patriarchy, male privilege and contemporary oppression of millions of women and girls. We're cool and you feel girly when you run fast.

You were fine as you were Eddie. The explaining is not helping.

Eddie might see it as a superhero thing but I see it as a misogyny thing. If a woman wore that dress the press would berate them for their weight and size of their stomach. Eddie gets praise. These double standards are a good demonstration of what it is really like to live as a woman - which Eddie is not doing.

This. It's quite clear what the pecking order is when it comes to being allowed to be offended.

He's been going into womens loos since he was 23, when he first started cross dressing. He seems proud of this in his memoirs. Note also the lack of respect for lesbians' orientation (he's called himself 'a lesbian trapped in a man's body).

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

Yes, me too, but he is way off with this.

OK, now I'm ready to join in with the EI bashing!

It's just so offensive.

It would be so deeply, obviously offensive if a white person claimed to be in 'black mode' from time to time.

It would be clearly deeply suspicious if a grown up man proclaimed himself to be in 'child mode' and demanded unfettered access to children's spaces (but I invite anyone unfamiliar with this concept to perform a Google search on Stefonknee Wolscht).

But when a man, who has always described himself as a 'man in a dress', decides to flip back and forth in 'girl mode', as if being female is a costume one can put on and discard at will, that is apparently perfectly acceptable.

Izzard has spoken before in interviews how he chased some teenage girls out of some women's toilets when they questioned his presence in there.

Who has the right to be in the ladies loos? Some teenage girls? Or Eddie in a dress and some lipstick?

Ten years ago I really liked and admired Izzard. Not anymore.

It's like someone putting on a cheongsam and saying they feel 'mysterious'.