Eddie Izzard Interview in the Times

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Written by the sports writer who wrote several comments in the Times over the years supporting transwomen in female sports, so no surprise there is no challenge (that I can see) to Izzard's bletherings:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cbc9589d-2019-434e-8c60-0fa6ac854519?shareToken=2725d49866bad689752abad5ab7d085d

Yes, this.

He seems to be ramping up the ‘feminisation’ attempt lately. Wonder if he is going to try for full on ‘girl mode’ as a 60 odd year old man. 🫤

I've not read it yet, just opened and skimmed down... this jumped out:
But honesty has to count for something.

Please Eddie, go back to being honest!

Because Girl Boss or summat?

Operation Let Them Speak is working reassuringly well if that stream-of-consciousness babble is anything to go by.

As for the photos……😂😂😂😂

The Tory Party are desperate for candidates if she’s still interested.

Didn't photoshop his shoulders smaller though.

Why is it for a man to appropriate a woman? 🤢 Fck off.

I think they did, you know. In RL they are much, much…….er, burlier.

And there's only so much heavy lifting Photoshop can do! 🙈🤣

Why does the interviewer constantly refer to Eddie as 'she', when apparently he doesn't mind what you call him?
Surely in this particular case, even just on sight, the default would be to call him a he?
If someone doesn't mind being called their actual sex then why are you still too scared to say it?

Those filters are doing some heavy lifting there. Fake on the outside, fake on the inside.

Wait, so because for centuries men have caricatured women as ugly (wearing heavy boots - the horror!), we need another man to single-handedly caricature women differently to right this wrong? And that’s going to make things great for women?

Eddie doesn’t see that Eddie is adding to the pile-on.

Edie could choose to act in plays where there are strong female leads played by women, where Eddie is a supportive part.

But then Eddie would have to share the applause.

"Girl mode" always makes me laugh - I'm about half his age and haven't been called a "girl" for years. Don't think I even count as a "young lady" any more either.

I think Eddie has gone the same way as Dylan Mulvaney - I think what started out as a bit of fun, almost an experiment, temporary and/or part time, then snowballed into their whole public persona and they can't go back to being an ordinary bloke even if they wanted to

Tried to read the article but I couldn't be bothered after the bit about the gender confused tiger. And I'm usually such a fan of the Times

Did anyone ever watch the documentary about him when he did all those marathons? There was an interview in it with an ex-girlfriend of his who said he was very difficult to be in a relationship with. She sounded so hurt and broken by it.

It was at that point I stopped liking him as a performer. Way before all the trans nonsense.

Channeling his inner Jane Eyre, wondering if Mr Rochester will text her

I met him once. He was an arse!

Ophelia?

Blimey. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Channeling his inner Jane Eyre, wondering if Mr Rochester will text her
He should have done "vulnerability sleeves".

Saw the headline saw the photos. Had no desire to read the article whatsoever.

Same, trying to get his MP gig 🙄

I was 17 or 18. He was in a play in the West End, and I went to the stage door to meet him. He barely contained his contempt, and just wasn't that happy to see me, from what I could tell.

He's insufferably self absorbed. It must be some sort of narcissistic affliction - a messiah like complex where he's convinced his 'female essence' and 'girl mode' is for the greater good of all us ladies. Men like this must be unable to hear how they sound. It would just be funny if it wasn't for other people taking their grandiose ramblings seriously.

Totally unsurprising. He’s obviously played the right game behind closed doors.

Big boots aren't the essence of woman?

You really don't need to get TRAs to talk for long before their boring, old, wrong beliefs that "woman means feminine" slip out.