Eddie Izzard interview - one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read

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https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/apr/26/suzy-eddie-izzard-dickens-great-expectations-hamlet

Uses she/her throughout, ‘one woman show’ etc etc - calling anyone who disagrees that TWAW ‘fascists’.

Every time I think I’m inured to this rubbish I read or see something that makes me despair. What a pathetic, preening liar he is.

Lock your dalmatians up, Eddie is channelling some serious Cruella de Vil vibes.

He's a prize prat!! The guardian is a joke isn't it?

That is all.

The exact point where I stopped too.

Izzard, who is 61, arrives this morning clutching a pink mobile phone and a Harlan Coben hardback. Her hair is punky and platinum with black roots, her lips painted bright red, her long burgundy nails click-clacking against the glass table. We are here to discuss her new one-woman show, which she tells me was born out of fear: whenever she is frightened of something, she makes a point of running towards it. Her aversion to flying is what prompted her to train as a pilot, and it is a fear of literature that will now find her alone on stage each night performing Great Expectations.

pink! her! She! FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF!

Ooh glorious! I missed that, have just been back for a look! 😁

It’s a vanity project from this utter tool

Eddie Izzard is a bloke. Eddie Izzard is a bloke. Eddie Izzard is a bloke. Red talons and lipstick changes not a jot.

It's ridiculous calling him, a man, her and she. What a joke. Izzard is a man, male, end of. Just because he decides that he'd like to be a woman now, that's all okay? It's not. The tone of the article comes across as very sycophantic and almost laps up the opportunity to call him her, she, women, female as much as possible.

I'm putting this one in the "neoliberal hypercapitalist" file, along with Mulvaney. The Guardian is about to go in there, too.

But this is in one way good to see because it's an absolute textbook case of real, damaging cultural appropriation. While the presentation draws on traditional "feminine" stereotypes, a woman could never, ever even get away with this kind of look in our society, let alone be celebrated for it and capitalise on it. She'd be shamed, sidelined, plagued by whispers about her deteriorating mental health/disgraceful aging, and finally dropped and ignored except for some mean sniggers. And, of course, she wouldn't have the automatic option of morphing into Eddie mode "boy mode" when she needed to be taken seriously.

I loved this human when he was Eddie, and she sounds pretty cool now as Suzy. She’s achieved a lot in her lifetime, I’d rather celebrate and raise people up than tear them down because of their pronouns. So many of these posts are hateful and spiteful.

I looked at it and saw Gary Glitter

Is Suzy going to transition fully? Or is Eddie just another middle aged male hetrosexual autogynephile?

Apologies if this offends anyone, am just curious and trying to understand as to what is really driving him.

I hope his political ambitions come to nothing, he's just a boring old windbag now.
The reporter tried to flatter him and asked him if 'Eddy was doing a full on Glenda Jackson.' -it seemed a bit like Eddy saw the mask slip and felt the condescension of the reporter playing along with his fantasy, it was a bit syrupy even for Eddy and he said 'or like Arnold Schwarzenegger, so you can never be right, he knows he's not a woman, he just likes the draaama darling.

Always the menz supporter, aren't you?

... oh, and it's not 'because of their pronouns' is it? There's a lot more to it than that.

@BIWI let’s not get personal, please

A comment on your posts.

Agree. It's horrifying. Propaganda masquerading as journalism

The politics of transgenderism aside, this is just very, very odd.

I loved Eddie when he was Eddie “they’re not women’s dresses, they’re my dresses”

Eddie as Suzy is a tedious run of the mill advanced gender pillock

What an absolute dick he is

I didn't know Eddie's mum died when Eddie was seven. That's quite sad

Oh I quite like it. I find it pretty impossible to see someone I've known as a man all this time as anything else. Why would I? But I laughed at 'or Arnold Schwarzenegger'. That's the Eddie I remember. The interview itself is pretty shit and doesn't show much interest in the piece itself. Any interest in the other Dickens performances of recent years? Apparently not.

I've never stopped seeing Eddie as a bereaved 6 year old. I can't bear to think of what a boy that age who loses their mum goes through. It was my greatest fear when ds was little.

I’m GC, but yes, this thread is rather personal and spiteful.

Some clearly don’t like the style of the article, but I don’t think Eddie is doing anything wrong here. If she wants to perform her own play or stand as a PPC for Labour, why shouldn’t she?

I have read Eddie’s account of the incident many years ago, where she was challenged in a women’s public toilet by some teenage girls and chased them off. I don’t think that Eddie was in the right there, but I know some would argue that Eddie was legally entitled to use the Ladies without harassment.

I have read Eddie’s account of the incident many years ago, where she was challenged in a women’s public toilet by some teenage girls and chased them off. I don’t think that Eddie was in the right there, but I know some would argue that Eddie was legally entitled to use the Ladies without harassment.

And truly, that last sentence sums up all that is wrong in this. Teenage girls did not want a man in their toilet. That was and remains a perfectly reasonable state of affairs. He "chased them off"- chased girls out of a female toilet so that he could use it. No, he wasn't legally entitled to that female space. No, those girls didn't have to share their space with a man. It's bloody madness.