To feel incredibly sorry for Eddie Izzard

[ColdstreamAnnie]

I don't want to pity Eddie but I felt a wave of sadness after reading that Rosie Duffield (MP) said she would rather be arrested than refer to Eddie as a woman.

What @teawamutu said

As if Eddie's going into politics to spend hours reading emails about hospital facilities, parking restrictions and bin collections. Hopefully the people of Sheffield realise this.

Just like every single trans "women's officer" in Labour, who use it as a validation opportunity and a platform for trans rights activism.

This!! Thank you for articulating how I feel so clearly @Birdsweepsin

As a woman speaking from Scotland where the Gender Reform Bill is being passed as we speak, I can categorically say that I will NEVER say Izzard and others like him are women.
Reserve your "pity" for the women and girls who are being totally fucked over with this ideology, ad who now have literally ZERO protection and rights to single sex safe spaces.
All a man has to do now is utter the magic words, and he can waltz into any space he wants.
Izzard thinks womanhood is like a coat that you can put on and take off again when it suits you, or when the job demands it, or when you feel like it.
Izzard is, was, and always will be a male.

Reserve your pity for the women like me in Scotland and their daughters, who are being shafted by their own Government and pushed down the pecking order of rights just so that some confused or even predatory men can access women and girls that little bit easier.

I will be dragged away kicking and screaming to the re-education camp before I EVER say that Izzard and men like him are women.

Maybe we should all mass report ourselves for knowing Eddie is a man?

All hand ourselves in at the local police station on the same day at the same time?

Rather!

How many of those ‘women’s’ officers in political parties or universities have been a woman for more than a few months when they stand for election?

It is a well known route to influence policy making.

Why has thiS thread been moved here from AIBU???

You know what I hate about this post? I hate how it's an attack on Rosie Duffield thinly disguised as kindness and empathy.

Why even bring her into your strange pastime of feeling sorry for Eddie Izzard? Very few people will ever see Eddie as a woman, you could feel sorry for him all day long without specifically naming a woman that you appear to feel is being mean to him. It's almost like the real goal of the post isn't to performatively sympathise with Eddie, but to sneakily attack Rosie Duffield.

Didn't work, but I still don't like it. 🙅

Oh yes, for womens officers, they only seem interested in promoting the rights and welfare of a certain type of ‘women’, the male ones.

You know what I hate about this post? I hate how it's an attack on Rosie Duffield thinly disguised as kindness and empathy.

I side eye all of this kind of posts. This tactic has become common on this board.

You know what I hate about this post? I hate how it's an attack on Rosie Duffield thinly disguised as kindness and empathy.

that's a really good point. I often like to pose the question the other way round to see what i think, and it would be to feel sorry for Rosie Duffield and women like her who are being coerced into saying things they don't believe.

Goady posts like this really don't help MNs reputation in other places.

Does anyone know what the vote was?

it wouldn’t be so annoying if the vote was at least preserved in the move.

Well all true, but wasnt lang also into some terrible breakfast mash ups, so I mean it was said that she was banned for her superb knowledge on safeguarding and sacred castes and a misunderstanding. But I'm betting it was the cereal mixed with hushed voice bananas.

Yes I'm joking just in case it isnt clear. I miss her too.

You know what I hate about this post? I hate how it's an attack on Rosie Duffield thinly disguised as kindness and empathy.

Exactly. Rosie's position isn't about Eddie personally, just that she should be legally compelled to tell lies.

And quite how anyone thinks she is wrong about that, I still, absolutely, can't comprehend.

We are talking about legal consequences to telling the truth. How can anyone stand by that? Seriously OP, please enlighten me.

I know everyone has pretty much challenged the OP effectively, but I still cannot understand, @ColdstreamAnnie , how you can see a highly successful, middle-aged, millionaire transvestite, who has eagerly embraced trans ideology in order to cross dress in public and run for office simultaneously, as someone to pity!

Especially as Eddie is only too well aware that his acting career would go down the swanny if he was trans full time, so is capitalising on the ridiculous, and highly convenient, notion of gender fluidity. There's cake and eating it all over the place.

It doesn't get more privileged.

Is it because you feel sorry for a man who has to wear women's clothing, because why would he, if he didn't have to? Do you see it as punching down? Because there's some sexism to unpick from that. Do you feel sorry for women wearing mens clothing?

Is it because when Izzard sees himself, all dressed up, it's clearly entirely differently to everyone else who's looking at him? And you feel a bit sorry for him on that basis?

Because that is highly characteristic of a lot of men who identify as women later in life. The trans widows threads here attest to that.

Also being pitied isn't always unappealing, to a lot of these men. For many it's all part of it.

Trans ideology really has done a number on some women, when it is the men they feel sorry for, not the women and girls whose rights, spaces, sports and safety are being removed. Even their very name.

As Shon Fay memorably said, I am a woman, even the law says so, enjoy your erasure.

It comes to something when women start to feel sorry for the very people responsible for stripping them of their own rights.

And just in case anyone is still thinking that Izzard is someone to be pitied, this from a Guardian interview about him wanting to be the MP for Sheffield.

If they do want a supercharged councillor, there are great people there. But the thing that I bring that is different, is their activism has been local and my activism has been national and international ... Because I have a personality, I am a character, and I am known across the UK and across the world, people will be saying: ‘Eddie Izzard, so tell me about Sheffield. Where is Sheffield?

www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/oct/27/eddie-izzard-rules-out-appearing-on-all-women-labour-mp-shortlist

that is the most infuriating part of it. They don't need a grandstanding MP. They need someone to tackle their local issues. That is the fucking job.

So Eddie will move to Sheffield then? Bet he doesn’t.

Because I have a personality, I am a character, and I am known across the UK and across the world, people will be saying: ‘Eddie Izzard, so tell me about Sheffield. Where is Sheffield?

If I were the other candidates, I'd be putting that quote on my campaign leaflets and flyering every street and letterbox.

Wow he said that? 😂

Where is Sheffield?

FUCK THE FUCK OFF EDDIE

man alive

It’s almost like demonstrably being a dick in one area of your life (thinking ‘woman’ is a role play game for example), is a reliable indicator of being a dick about other things

If (and that's quite an if) Hollywood/netflix etc come knocking do you think he'd put his own self absorbed ego first or Sheffield? Such arrogance to think he can just breeze in and trample over the politicians who have been slogging away campaigning and helping local people for years.

In a short telephone interview with the Guardian on Thursday, Izzard said she had suffered a “torrent of transphobic abuse” since announcing her candidacy, including being photographed by a gender-critical feminist using the women’s toilet.

Not using it. Entering it through the door, which looks like it was right next to the stage, and the woman photographed it whilst she was still sitting in her seat.

Eddie views women trying to protect their own boundaries as transphobic abuse.