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Eddie is a HE not a SHEffield.

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It's now time for RuPaul to issue a statement condemning 'family friendly' drag.

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Nov 17, 2022Liked by KFP

Do the right thing Sheffield

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I do hope he doesn't get in. But who is there to vote for instead...?

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Nov 18, 2022·edited Nov 18, 2022

oh I see- he is not yet selected as Labour candidate. Phew. Only problem is that there are 3 real women in the race too- which might split the vote, and allow Edna Izzard to sneak in :-(

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i wish they’d stop telling me i’m far right. Its such a meaningless thing to say. Just a piss poor lazy default position

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For the voices of real women, trans widows, the trailer for upcoming documentary on Lime Soda Films channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhAlvw_kAHs

The filmmaker, also of the 4 part series, Dysphoric, is Vaishnavi Sundar. Look for her recent interview about the 30 women, including me, at Womens Declaration International channel.

I want Izzard to be strapped to a seat in the third row of a theater with his eyes taped open to watch this when the full length version comes out in January.

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Is it wrong to say I'm looking forward to this? I understand that this is hurtful to the women involved but their stories are important to understand the agp element of the trans ideology. Having seen the trailer it looks absolutely riveting

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It will be absolutely riveting and I hope you allow yourself to look forward to it. For a window into my part, visit my youtube channel, Ute Heggen. I mostly post short instructional clips for movement strengthening mind/body connections via the vagus nerve in the torso, but one of my playlists is for my story. There's also a lovely clip of me and my 100 year old mother with her 1943 wedding dress. I apologize that it's 2 takes, each had a couple of details I didn't want to omit. It's approx. 5 minutes. Our stories need to be told, because they include the malpractice in the field of psychology and the callousness of the surgeons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24d56qtFYiM&list=PLOFlPPQm71IhHtjMK1hw9guMJLql-yOkJ

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I will look out for this. My cousin is a TW. 😪😪

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For healthy mind/body movements, program to regain connections to one's natal body, visit Ute Heggen YouTube channel. Short clips, not monetized. This should be a rotation in the field of psychology, but is not. Good luck.

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"... drag artists have suddenly been placed under something like a military draft to read stories to children." Certainly seems that way. They all popped up with military precision in nearly every library in the Western world. That takes a lot of strategic planning.

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So will Eddie be in girl mode or boy mode (Miss Haversham or the convict)? And how Great are the Expectations of Sheffield’s Labour Party voters?

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Which role pays more?

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What strikes me is this. From John Money to where we are, right now, it's all about breaking boundaries. I am straight but used to frequent Manchester's gay / drag scene 30 years ago. These politicians / civil servants are ignorant and naive. It is about educating people. Stating facts. Not feelings. I have two disabled sons so I have to be very clinical. That is how I see the trans thing. People think they are being kind. We must all do one thing though. And that is KEEP UP THE COMEDY. Fight on soldiers!! There's a war to be won. ❤🤍🖤

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Thank you for posting the link about supporting Abtisam's campaign in Sheffield. This is my constituency, and she is really hardworking and committed to the community.

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Aah twitter - where warning people that an adult show is being performed to a family audience, is defined as "far-right." And where some of the most illiberal people in society, imagine themselves to be liberals. I don't know if Musk can bring some measure of reason to the public-toilet wall that is twitter, but at least he seems to be interested in making an effort.

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Nov 17, 2022·edited Nov 17, 2022

199 seat theatre, $60 a ticket and 38 nights = $453,720 at the door. Eddie's only worth £20 million says the interwebs so this should make him a bit more and who can blame him for only doing the bare minimum for the people of Sheffield?

Oh yeah, I can.

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I can't believe enough of the people of Sheffield could be mug enough to vote for this narcissistic fraud, or allow themselves to be bullied into it. Izzard doesn't seem capable of recognising his limitations and he's not going to, the only people he's likely to pay attention to are too busy kissing his arse to notice the less than enthusiastic reactions to him.

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You've just described our bizarrely coiffured PM from the beginning of this year. Far too many people hung on his coat tails as a 'breath of fresh air' and 'breaking the mould' and all that bit of a laugh bunkum when he was 'popular' and got to be Mayor. There are lots of similar people who think Eddie is 'good' for the Labour Party otherwise he wouldn't have got this far. Selfie politics.

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If he gets the candidacy, they're likely to vote for him as a representative of the Labour Party; it's a safe Labour seat.

Winning would just mean he was less unpopular in Sheffield than the Tories (though it would be spun as far more than that).

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It would be spun into an entire fucking net and canopy. But he has nothing to offer the people of Sheffield, he's in this for himself. Hardly rare among politicians. But like Johnson, he's not a politician. They are opportunists who are so acutely aware of it, they can't bear being seen for what they are. Johnson hid behind bluster and bullshit. Izzard hides behind pantomime 'womanhood' in a dress three sizes too small, and bright lipstick and nails. It's the girl genes coming through. Yeah.

The thing that unites them is that neither gives a shit, they just want to have what they want. I doubt Johnson is ever going to thought of as a capable politician, fuck no. He doesn't care, he's making a fortune. Ultimately, Izzard isn't going to care either, however far from PM he was. But he'll continue to be thought of as good at what he makes his millions from. However bad a comedian and straight actor he is.

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oops- calling hm a 'straight actor' .... 1. hetero actor, (or) 2. non-hetero person who pretends to be hetero, and works as an actor. Either way, you could be in bother with the pronoun police ;-)

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I'm sure you could keep it going forever. Misgendering, misidentifying, misalignment and misunderstandings. We need to say go and fuck yourself. There's no discourse.

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Yep. Trans is short for transgress every boundary. They can cram it.

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Why do I always seem to see mainly women at these drag shows...and why do they look so moronic!

Is this a left or right wing thing!

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Often they don't look as though they're having a good time, the laughter and smiles look forced. It's what they think they're supposed to be doing, whilst being kind, tolerant and inclusive, etc, so they do it. Women being bullied into indulging men as they ridicule women.

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My husband and I attended a woman friends 65th birthday party. The cake was wheeled in by a naked (except forvapron, bow tie and cuffs) muscled young man. He proceeded to grab the birthday girl and hoist her off her feet. Most people laughed, but we found the whole spectacle gross and demeaning. Of course it is difficult to say anything in such circumstances as you do not want to upset the host.

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Yes, I can well believe it. The woman was the one being given attention by a man who seemed compromised by wearing hardly anything, but he was still the one who had power. He picked her up, regardless that she didn't invite him to and might not have wanted it. But women are in the position where they feel they have to play along not matter how much they don't want to, as you say, to avoid upsetting others.

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They are the morons of our sex.

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Why are they morons? They are adding to the enablment of men to demean and harm women, but that's the position a lot of women have been put in, not chosen to be in. And for numerous reasons that I believe have mostly been created and maintained by men, consciously and unconsciously. It seems to be based around consequences that will disadvantage women further in one way or another.

A bit like the women standing around that gross parody of male created womanhood who won the beauty contest in the US. He won because he wasn't a woman, an actual woman who looked like him would not only have not come first, she wouldn't have got into the competition at all. They're all smiling even though he's taken something from them, and in material terms, money and opportunity. They must hate his fucking guts and everything he represents.

But if they'd expressed their feelings, they wouldn't simply be thought of as bad losers, they would have been punished by the misogynistic ideology that put him there. This might be what seems like an extreme example linked to a recently emerging phenomenon, but it comes from the same source as any other manifestation of misogyny.

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If Izzard were to campaign under a transvestite banner, I'd back him to the hilt. Not this reality-denying stance he has adopted, though. He's a man now and forever.

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If we are very clever, perhaps we can figure out a way to trick Eddie into coming to Sheffield, Alabama? It's a nice town with no drag venues, he can have the first one all to himself.

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Wouldn't it be great if Elon, just for the giggles, simply deleted Hasan's account. No warning, no suspension, just a quick call to 'tech' with the instruction. Bang. Gone.

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I did speculate on Guido whether EL was playing Miss Haversham or Magwich. Or given he considers himself aged 60 a girl, whether he would be playing Estella.

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Bound to be Estella. It's the role only a girl would play, surely. Play any fucking role Eddie, you'll get an award if there's one going.

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