Olivia Colman: “I’ve always described myself to my husband as a gay man.” 🙄

[NaysayerOrMeanie]

Olivia Colman is currently on the press tour for her new film Jimpa and has come out with some absolute corkers in an interview with them "magazine" including:

"Throughout my whole life, I’ve had arguments with people where I've always felt sort of nonbinary. Don’t make that a big sort of title! But I’ve never felt massively feminine in my being female. I’ve always described myself to my husband as a gay man. And he goes, “Yeah, I get that.”"

Which I can only assume means he likes it when she pegs him.

And a dig at some undefined group of naysayers and haters and meanies:

"Most of the actors were from, particularly in the Dutch side of things, from the queer community there; I’ve never been part of a more welcoming group of people. For all those naysayers or haters or meanies, if [only] they could spend the time with the most welcoming, kind bunch of people. I kind of want everyone to just come and say hi and actually feel total love."

Jimpa stars Olivia Colman as Hannah, mother to the non-binary Frances (played by they/them, non-binary, queer, transgender daughter of the film's director, Aud Mason-Hyde) who go to Amsterdam to visit Hannah's gay HIV positive father (John Lithgow, currently simultaneously scorned by the queers for daring to be in the new Harry Potter series, any by the meanies for talking shit about JKR). I'm sure it will be a hoot.

Congratulations Olivia on your brave coming out as a queer, non-binary, gay man, spicy-straight woman. You're so late to the party all the cool kids will find your identity embarrassing now.

I'd love to see Olivia strutting her stuff as a gay man in the 1980s. We are talking proper ground breaking stuff here for diversity and inclusion. Yes, I think 50 something white female Olivia playing a gay, male in his 20s doing some graphic half naked sex scenes would make for award winning TV.

BRING IT ON.

Eh. I have immense respect for OC’s acting abilities, but in the last few years whenever I’ve seen her on any talk show or interview etc I’ve been increasingly feeling like she’s basically getting a bit high off her own supply.

She sounds like a petulant toddler. "Oh it's mean to make me wear a seatbelt. Only meanies want single sex spaces."

Well sorry if us responsible adults are meanies, but seatbelts save lives, and single sex spaces are vital for our safety, privacy and dignity.

I bet she doesn't even realise that 62% of transwomen in prison in the UK have convictions for rape or sexual assault (compared to just 3% of women).

It would be awesome. Go on Olivia, pitch it!

I really don't think that she should out her husband like that. He might not have wanted the general public to know he was gay. His time on the downlow is over it seems, poor guy.

I understand what she is trying to explain. I used to feel like myself. Not as a persistent identity of any sort, but as an inner feeling and occasional sense of orientation.

The closed-mindedness is in thinking that if someone isn't feminine then they must be something other than a woman.

Yep. A friend of mine acted as a beard to a gay friend of hers back in the 80s when he worked for a very conservative company and his sexuality would definitely have affected his career. Olivia has no idea.

No, it is just describing an inner experieece and feeling. We all contain 'masculine' and 'feminine' coded characteristics and what she is describing is her way of trying to identify and name those feelings.

As I said - waffle.

So you believed sexist, homophobic tropes about what a gay man is?

And you can't explain it as being a non-conforming woman who fits into pretty well in an industry which is dominated by rather toxic masculinity?

I would suggest she has a vocabulary issue and sexism issue rather than an identity issue.

You mean she believes in sexist regressive sex based stereotypes.

Ok.

Literally just thinking that. It makes me flinch. It'll never be anything but a vicious, cruel insult to me.

Or Olivia’s agent/PR/other flunky.

Anyway, I’m sure the terven all feel suitable chastised now, don’t we?

No I don't!

But it is not forbidden to try to articulate an inner sense or feeling is it? Feelings don't follow externally imposed 'shoulds' and 'should nots'.

Snorted my coffee out reading this.

This is me 🤣

The sort of English person who is desperate not to be English and considers themself "Celtic" on the basis of vague or imagined family connections to Scotland, Ireland or Wales, or "feeling a spiritual connection".

<frantically mops up spat-out tea>

She's insufferable. Made an absolute fool of herself in that Alaa Abdel Fattah video.

I wish they’d understand that the ‘meanies’ just want certain protections for biological females so that they can be physically safe. No one’s being mean, we just don’t want our girls to be in danger from men and certain protections need to be in place to reduce risk. That’s all.

To misquote the late great Magdalen Burns, I’d rather be a meanie than a fucking liar.

You are articulating an inner sense using sexist concepts though. That's the point!

Masculine and feminine traits are based on sexism.

Try and explain that inner sense of self minus the sexism.

You are using sexism as a way to relate to others, thus perpetuating and reinforcing sexism.

The more time goes on the less I like actors opinions (looking at you, as well, David Tennant) Please stick to the day job.

I really wish they'd think before engaging their brains.

sorry - sick burn? What the dickens are you on about.

You can say anal sex you know.

Quite. It’s generally the most uninteresting thing about a person who they like to rub body parts against , unless you are wanting a sexual relationship with them.