Men who dress nearly like women - Eddie Izzard

Hetty58 - I'm 70 and its becoming increasingly clear I don't share many views with many posters. I've no problem with political disagreement, healthy and interesting but the level of unpleasantness and judgemental comments on some threads about people, shock me.

I tend towards thinking that they put people down to make themselves feel better. My mother was excellent at it.

It reveals an inner dislike of self, a lack of confidence and a sad, unhappy person. Therefore, my reaction is to pity those poor souls who feel compelled to criticise!

Elegran the males who live locally and are cross dressers do tend to dress more flamboyantly and wear more makeup than any women I know, even to go to the supermarket or the pub.
But yes, they are the ones who would seem to want to be noticed. Others may not.

Hetty58 - yes, I suspect you're right, we have a lot of projection going on.

I agree with SirChenin and other GNs who have said the same things as SirChenin, here.

Each to his/her own - he’s a colourful character and the world would IMO be very dull if we were all conventionally and (so often) drably similar.

Wasn’t it Eddie Izard who said that the motto of the Church of England should be ‘Tea and cakes or death!’
I really liked that, especially in a world where religious extremism is so much more prevalent.

I’m puzzled at some of the comments on here. Catch up, Britain, judgemental bigotry, living in the Victorian era.

I can see one, maybe two, negative posts about Eddie Izzard/cross dressers, and many elderly Gransnet members just discussing the subject and/or trying to understand. Nothing wrong with that, imho. I do the same with my cross-dressing friend.

Does it really matter what he wears , when all is said and done, he appears to be a decent person?
In this day and age, where shock horror, it's commonplace for women to wear trousers, why can't someone that outwardly male, wear a dress and make up?
I quite like his combinations of black tie, mascara and nail varnish !

I read the original post and was ready to jump to Eddie’s defence as he is a truly wonderful human being. And I’m DELIGHTED that the vast majority of these replies are how I feel. ‘Dress how you like’, ‘he’s a lovely person’, makes life interesting’ and to each their own’.

And the original post wanting to understand is so lovely too.

It’s made my bloomin’ day you lovely lovely people <3

Why does it matter? Live and let live. Life is too short.

BBMorMor - Hi, Just looked back at this and so agree with you. One of the few places you CAN ask 'silly questions' and still have a civil conversation. Grans Rock!

What I have noticed is that the women I know are quite unconcerned about Grayson Perry's cross-dressing, but the men see only his choice of women's clothes and make-up and are unwilling to even consider his art or his very sensible books, as though reading "The descent of man" will somehow emasculate them.

I love Eddie Izzard and Grayson Perry. Let them wear what they like , why should you care it’s a free country

Now this is the kind of clothing I like to see a man wear!
Zack Pinset, 25, from Hove, has only worn historical clothing for the past decade
All outfits are researched and sewn by Zack with some taking a year to perfect
Aged 14, he burned jeans on bonfire but got serious about dandy style at 17
Zack has large online following and said he's 'received many marriage proposals'

Grayson Perry was on the TV this evening.

His pottery was great and I was astonished to see he'd already made his own urn!
Perhaps he was a Boy Scout - be prepared.