Sunday 2 October 2022
An ego looking for a new vanity project
Jean Hatchet has an interesting Critic piece on Eddie Izzard's attempt to become Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Sheffield Central.
On Thursday, 29 September Sheffield Labour Party hosted a fund-raising event featuring an evening in conversation with Eddie Izzard at Crookes Social Club in Sheffield. Eddie has recently confirmed a desire to stand as Labour’s parliamentary candidate in Sheffield Central which will shortly be vacated by Paul Blomfield who is stepping down. Izzard has not yet been formally selected by Labour.
As a Sheffield Labour Party member, I am sceptical of Eddie’s proclaimed love of all things Sheffield, which appears to have come upon him with some vigour of late as he poses with police or holds forth on issues of Sheffield’s buses. The buses are a really important issue for Sheffield people, but I don’t think Eddie has much call to clamber aboard public transport carrying some of his estimated net wealth of $20 million. I sniff an ego looking for a new vanity project.
The whole piece is well worth reading as a comment on this particular vanity project and more generally, the ludicrous transgender bandwagon.
Eddie fairly recently announced that he is a going to live “in full girl mode”, whatever that might mean, and wishes to be addressed using “she/her” pronouns. This came after years of being happy to declare himself a “transvestite” and challenge gender stereotypes, by wearing dresses and lipstick. Now he does exactly the same thing, but expects everyone to believe he is actually a woman. I don’t have to concur with that belief and my belief, that men can’t change sex, is worthy of respect in a democratic society. I don’t capitulate to compelled speech and would find this article impossible to negotiate unless I was truthful and use “he”. He is not a woman.
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7 comments:
He nay not be a woman but he is a bit of a girl's blouse.
"Eddie fairly recently announced that he is a going to live “in full girl mode”, whatever that might mean, and wishes to be addressed using “she/her” pronouns."
Surely people (whatever their sex and or gender) can only be addressed using "you/your" pronouns.
As in "Izzard, you are a mentally ill liar and an object of widespread derision, and your penis means that you are a man".
Brings a whole new slant to the 'Honourable Member'....................
This is what comes of living all your life in too much of a fantasy world - and being over indulged by other fellows. (Did ya see what I did there?)
Perhaps Eddie iz-not-so-hard nowadays?
He never was particularly funny when he was a bloke, so this may help his ratings with the LBGTeqrwtteyrghfu 'code', while the majority of normal guys and gals get on with making a living.
Vatsmith - and certainly not one of the toiling masses.
Sam - good point - nobody is likely to address him by saying "hello, how are she today?" Although I suppose Corbyn might while scratching his head and leafing through the gender rule book.
Wiggia - and if he's elected, some MPs are bound to make the most of it. I hope.
Tammly - it's a world I can barely comprehend - in the sense that I'd rather not.
Ed - and maybe never was.
Scrobs - I never found him particularly funny either. Becoming a Labour MP would be a joke, but not a funny one.
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