Torching your own market
Just Daily Mail gossip, except there’s a point here.
Struggles does he? I wonder why.
Take a gander at the woman next to him in the first photo. Is it just me or does she look significantly younger then he does?
Now take a gander at him in the second photo. What is the demographic group he expects to want to do romance with him? Younger women as in the first photo? But why would most younger women want to do romance with him? The straight ones will be wanting a man and the gay ones will be wanting a lesbian. Who exactly is going to see him sticking his leg out and think “That’s for me!”?
Maybe potential partners don’t want to compete with his romance with himself.
I’m sure there are some older men who might be attracted to him. I mean, as a good TIM, he shouldn’t mind the penis.
But in the real world older men are attracted to much younger women. Eddie Izzard would know that if he were an actual woman. Older men want much younger women, and they feel entitled to want them and get them. It does not work the other way around. Izzard’s apparent cluelessness about this well-known pattern is contemptible.
While I agree that Izzard’s cluelessness is contemptible, I think the practice is also contemptible. The idea that there is something wrong with a woman your own age is disgusting. I mean, sure, if you meet a younger woman and you click, great. But what if that woman is your age? Seriously?
I’m glad my husband isn’t so shallow or superficial; he dated a woman older than him for two decades. I’m younger than him, but was forty when we met, so I had “hit the wall” to use MRA parlance. While I may have had less sex appeal than when I was younger, I promise that I was much more interesting as a person.
Too many men want one of two things from women: (1) a fucktoy; and/or (2) children with their DNA.
The other thing, of course, is that I can see how contemptible that is partially because I was a trophy wife (not by my choice; I was deceived). It’s a painful thing to be dumped at 28 because you are no longer a great trophy, though in my case it wasn’t age that made me less desirable but anorexia.
Well of course. I’m not endorsing the pattern! I’m expressing utter contempt for Izzard’s blindness to the realities of being a woman.
Yes, I knew you weren’t endorsing it. I was just agreeing while expanding. I’ve never seen you endorse such a pattern, so Occam’s Razor suggested you wouldn’t now. ;-)
What demographic will be interested in him? Straight younger women, who will suddenly declare themselves lesbian or bisexual. Izzard is a celebrity — and presumably has money as well. Plenty of women are attracted to the rich and famous, and there’s no stigma in Rich and Famous circles against being gay.
Heh. Occam’s razor is probably some kind of terf, amirite?
Sastra – but apparently they aren’t? I didn’t pause to read the DM piece, but the headline at least says he’s struggling.
Demand-y narcissist haz a sad.
The woman in the photo is Sarah Townsend, she is a writer, producer, singer, and performer. She and Izzard had a long term relationship, but her age is a bit of a mystery. It isn’t in her IMDB or Wikipedia profile. I saw reports putting her age around 55. I don’t think she is that much younger than Izzard, like most women she probably takes better care of her skin than he does, and may use all sorts of cosmetic procedures to look young that a man would almost never feel compelled to do.
I have started a thread in Style and Beauty on mumsnet because Eddie desperately needs some help with styling.
Izzard used to be one of my favourite comedians. I loved his quirkiness and unique delivery.
When he started to wear make-up and more “feminine” clothing I thought he looked great. He was a man who was busting gender stereotypes and expanding boundaries.
But then something changed in his head and he decided that he must be a woman because he likes “feminine” attire. He went from fabulous to a bit sad, from a man in great clothes to someone cosplaying as a woman. I look forward to the day when people realise that you can wear what you like without having having to redefine yourself.