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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Izzard - womanhood not a 'mode'

196 replies

Cookingutensil · 27/07/2022 23:46

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

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DoubleYouOhEmAyEn · 12/08/2022 18:31

EI is such a disappointment.
Complete arrogance and dismissal of the realities women face every day.

What a knob.

BoredofthisCrap7 · 12/08/2022 19:01

Isn't he trying to become an MP?

How scary.

RedRec · 12/08/2022 19:14

I didn't realise he was a her now, until seeing him on a programme about the Edinburgh Fringe the other night. Frank Skinner deftly sidestepped the pronouns conundrum by saying Eddie did this and Eddie did that, rather than calling him she like all the other sheep.

dropthevipers · 12/08/2022 19:23

BoredofthisCrap7 · 12/08/2022 19:01

Isn't he trying to become an MP?

How scary.

Relax, unless I've missed one, this country has never elected to mp a female impersonator.

Maireas · 12/08/2022 19:29

No interviewer ever calls him out.

BoredofthisCrap7 · 12/08/2022 19:34

dropthevipers · 12/08/2022 19:23

Relax, unless I've missed one, this country has never elected to mp a female impersonator.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/11/tory-mp-jamie-wallis-banned-driving-failing-stop-crash

Depends what you mean by a female impersonator I suppose.

""Carina Hughes, prosecuting, said a group of friends were having a birthday party when just after 1am they heard a “very loud bang” or explosion.
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One of them, Adrian Watson, went outside, looked inside the crashed Mercedes E-Class saloon and saw “a white male wearing a white long-sleeve top, a black leather PVC miniskirt, tights, dark shoes and a pearl necklace”."

dropthevipers · 12/08/2022 19:37

But wallis came out after being elected?

WandaWomblesaurus · 12/08/2022 23:17

Maireas · 12/08/2022 19:29

No interviewer ever calls him out.

No but they certainly will be thinking the obvious.

TinselAngel · 13/08/2022 11:59

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SidewaysOtter · 13/08/2022 14:36

EI is such a disappointment.

Isn't he just? I was SUCH a huge fan of his, I’ve seen him live and he was very much the comedian of my teenage years. I can quote huge chunks of his act and still reference them (when I mix my languages up: “Oh, he was from everywhere…”).

But he’s just an embarrassment now - his arrogance and self absorption means he just can’t seem to see how offensive he is to women and how tone deaf his actions are. No Eddie, you don’t get to have a little
sojourn to Womania before skipping back to ManLand when it’s convenient to you.

RoobarbandCustud · 13/08/2022 16:44

It's fine for him to flip around with gender expression and identity. Good on him. But as long it's clear that his sex is male and therefore cannot play womens sports, get womens awards or use facilities that are protected for women just because he's in 'girl mode'. I think don't think Eddie Izzard is an entitled TA.

respectmysex · 13/08/2022 16:54

RoobarbandCustud · 13/08/2022 16:44

It's fine for him to flip around with gender expression and identity. Good on him. But as long it's clear that his sex is male and therefore cannot play womens sports, get womens awards or use facilities that are protected for women just because he's in 'girl mode'. I think don't think Eddie Izzard is an entitled TA.

Eddie has long been associated with Parkrun and marathon running. Appeared in Womens Running magazines multiple times and runs in the womens category for park run.

PronounssheRa · 13/08/2022 17:03

RoobarbandCustud · 13/08/2022 16:44

It's fine for him to flip around with gender expression and identity. Good on him. But as long it's clear that his sex is male and therefore cannot play womens sports, get womens awards or use facilities that are protected for women just because he's in 'girl mode'. I think don't think Eddie Izzard is an entitled TA.

Too late for that I'm afraid, eddie does use and has used women's spaces for many years.

Eddie has previously spoken about how he was the victim when some teenage girls challenged him for being in the women's toilet. If I recall Eddie had gone in the women's to change mode (clothes)

Datun · 13/08/2022 22:55

PronounssheRa · 13/08/2022 17:03

Too late for that I'm afraid, eddie does use and has used women's spaces for many years.

Eddie has previously spoken about how he was the victim when some teenage girls challenged him for being in the women's toilet. If I recall Eddie had gone in the women's to change mode (clothes)

Around the same time Eddie was wondering if Eddie was a lesbian, I believe.

Calling yourself a woman (or 'girl' in Eddie's case), or a lesbian, is just as much an invasion as using our toilets and changing rooms.

Stopsnowing · 14/08/2022 05:39

I remember back in the early days on a chat show Nigella Lawson was telling him the dress thing was clearly connected to the loss of his mother when he was a child.

Melroses · 14/08/2022 16:08

SidewaysOtter · 12/08/2022 12:24

That was just what I was going to ask - where did the tits come from apart from the one wearing the dress ?

If nothing else it just makes me think of the Blackadder II episode where they all get drunk and wear comedy breasts.

I am assuming that they are detachable, in order to obtain the more lucrative and abundant male parts in the acting sphere.

SmartWatch · 06/12/2022 10:46

I do love how the DM are trolling him with their descriptions though.

strawberriesplease · 06/12/2022 17:09

Eddie is a man.

We all know it. We can see it.

Madness to pretend otherwise

SamphiretheTervosaurReturneth · 06/12/2022 17:18

Eddie is a man who lost - to a woman!

Farmageddon · 06/12/2022 19:00

Found aninteresting post on a thread about middle aged men and their fetishes that made me think of Eddie for some strange reason :-)

IdisagreeMrHochhauser
I heard a sexologist talking about this in relation to cross dressing. He said that libido drops as men get older so whereas they used to be able to get turned on by regular sex without indulging in their fetish, as their libido drops they need their fetish to get turned on or conversely they don't want to waste what libido they do have on sex that's not the most satisfying for them. So the fetish becomes more important.

Not every man has a fetish. He did say that they tend to cluster so men with one might have several.

NewToWoo · 07/12/2022 08:01

Eddie has long been associated with Parkrun and marathon running. Appeared in Womens Running magazines multiple times and runs in the womens category for park run.
Eddie Izzard running in the women's categories in Park Run is the saddest twattiest thing I have heard in a long time. How desperate is he to Be The Best?

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