![]() ‘Shut up, bitch’, the totally non-sexist fans of the gender cult will say. And yet if any woman – actual woman – challenges Izzard’s hollow view of womanhood, she can expect to be vilified online for days on end. The idea of ‘girl mode’ – a mode being a fashion or a style – drains womanhood of its biological, relational and social depth and reduces it to a costume you can throw on and off as you please. This is clearly a sexist view of what it means to be a woman. He says he switches between ‘boy mode’ and ‘girl mode’, sometimes by kicking off his ‘flat shoes’ and putting on ‘heels’. ![]() Forget having to experience girlhood, sisterhood, periods, childbirth, motherhood or any of the social lows and highs that come with being female, all Ed had to do was change his shoes. It is the ease with which men can be promoted to womanhood that is the most alarming thing. You wonder when they’ll have Rachel Dolezal in the paper saying, ‘Yay, I’m officially black now!’. That a once serious newspaper like the Guardian could feature on its front page a photo of Eddie in a wig alongside the words ‘I’ve been promoted to she’ is bonkers. The male colonisation of womanhood is clear from the neverending saga of Eddie Izzard’s gender identity. Only blokes can breezily chat about being girls these days. If a woman were to speak about the unique wonders of girlhood, or to commit the speechcrime of suggesting that going through girlhood is essential to being a woman, there’s every possibility she’d be branded a TERF, which means witch. A period of life neither knows a thing about. This month cosmetics chain Ulta Beauty put out a video featuring two biological males giddily discussing ‘The Beauty of Girlhood’. ‘I’m a proud woman’, says a transgender sports star. So where real woman are ‘cis women’, ‘ transwomen are women’. But referring to men as women is done with gusto. Calling women women is done apologetically, quietly, and ‘inclusively’ – gotta include those non-binaries. That would make others – fellas – feel left out. ![]() The word woman never stands alone when applied to women. ‘Women and non-binary people’ is another phrase you see everywhere now. So the NHS invites ‘ women and people with a cervix’ for smear tests. When the word woman is still used to refer to actual women, it’s done in a shame-faced, caveated way. Only men are allowed to be proud of their womanhood. The motive was women celebrating being women. The advertising company that removed this blasphemous utterance of the w-word said it had been ‘ unaware of the motive’ behind it. One of her billboards with those words was taken down on the basis that it was ‘transphobic’. Kellie-Jay Keen is branded a bigot for turning the dictionary definition of a woman – ‘adult human female’ – into a political cry. Yet when women proudly call themselves women, it’s a hate crime. ‘You go, girl’, the cultural elites cry every time a man says he’s a woman. These biological males are literal women, proud women, and you had better all bow down to that. ‘ Trans women are women!’, campaigners gleefully cry. I was thinking recently that the only time you see the word woman used in a proud, unabashed way these days is in reference to men.
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