On David Walliams

Comment in the Telegraph on David Walliams’ split from his  wife.

When supermodel Lara Stone left her cross-dressing husband David Walliams, it was only a matter of time before the “Camp David” jokes appeared. It’s an irresistibly good pun, after all, and the umpteen mundane, boring reasons why couples split – repetitive arguments and the stress of parenting – are no match for the salacious tale of a beautiful wife and a man who wears a dress on TV.

“It had become clear Lara didn’t like the constant talk about David being camp,” says a friend of the couple, according to The Sun. Although there were other issues in their relationship, the source says, Lara hated David’s cross-dressing persona.

Which is all a little odd, given that his cross-dressing persona was out and loud before they wed. I mean, dressing upon the telly is hardly in the closet… So, I guess as is likely to always be the case in such matters, there is more going on and this is merely one of them. The one that is most newsworthy, I suppose.

Still, as is usual when this subject crops up the moronic and ill-informed cod-psychiatrists have all the answers.

It’s not about a dress per say. It’s the fact that certain people want to be seen to reject their maleness. Many of these people have mental health issues, of which, wearing ridiculous caricatures of women’s clothing, is but one manifestation.

What is it about people who are so utterly ignorant that they feel the need to demonstrate it to the world? No, we are not mentally ill. There are others equally moronic who want to determine what others wear.

Men should wear clothes tailored for men, such as trousers, proper shirts and shoes and that, certainly not thongs, skirts, dresses, high heels or bras. No way. In fact any man doing so should be arrested and castrated. I mean, if he wants to wear skirts then he’s got no need for a pair of balls and disco stick, surely?

When presented  with such rampant stupidity, it’s difficult to know where to begin. It isn’t the cross-dresser who is in urgent need of therapy…

What these discussions do, though, is expose the underbelly of thinking (and I use the term in its loosest possible sense) of the average Briton. Quite apart from being intolerant, narrow-minded cretins, they think they should get to say what others do and wear. Non conformists will comply with their idea of perfection under the weight of law and violence. Today, it happens to be cross-dressing, but the principle will apply to all sorts of lifestyles. Change cross-dressing for smoking, motorcycling, cycling or any other interest or pursuit that others dislike and the same misanthropic tendencies will emerge.

21 Comments

  1. “if he wants to wear skirts then he’s got no need for a pair of balls and disco stick, surely”

    Say that in a room full of Scots in full highland dress and see what happens.

  2. It was also suggested in today’s Mail that he had been uncomfortable with some of her sexy photo shoots with other men, so it looks like there is more to it.

  3. Looking at her photographs I rather suspect that for him, she is too hot to handle………

  4. “…the underbelly of thinking of the average Briton…”

    I believe it was Winston Churchill who said that a 5-minute conversation with the average voter was a strong argument against democracy.

    He had a point – which would be even more relevant today.

    • And that’s just the ‘average’ voter. Imagine if he’d conversed with the 50% of the population who were *below* average.

  5. I think they should leave him alone and let him get on with it. Lara must have known before she married him, as he was quite a public figure, so unless she was living on Mars she would have known and she had a child with him, she chose to do that so I don’t believe for one minuet that any aspect of this story is the real truth.
    Any marriage breakdown is dreadful and sad for those involved just because they are in the public eye doesn’t make it any less painful and if David was Jo Bloggs no one would give a stuff.

  6. Yep on all points, LR. It’s the assumed right to pontificate on the lives of others – and worse, as you note, the assumed right to dictate to others – that is so offensive, and so depressing. I just don’t understand the mindset.

  7. “Men should wear clothes tailored for men…”

    By whom? Oh right: that’d be people who work in the clothing and fashion industries. An industry famously populated by butch, manly men.

    “…such as trousers, proper shirts and shoes and that, certainly not thongs, skirts, dresses, high heels or bras. No way. In fact any man doing so should be arrested and castrated…”

    Oh dear. John Cleese will not be at all pleased to hear that. Nor will almost every other British comedian.

    Presumably, this dribbling little imbecile has never heard of pantomime either.

    • “Men should wear clothes tailored for men…”

      Or… what? The sky will fall in? Madness will reign? The offence caused to the delicate sensibilities of the world’s bigots will cause their internal organs to boil and explode?

      Fucking moron.

      (Sorry to comment twice but this exact kind of dead-end ‘thinking’ – whatever the subject might be – really is my #1 hate, and is the cause of an incalculable amount of grief in the world).

        • They think they are ‘normal’. And their pontificating/aggression towards those they consider abnormal is of course a symptom of insecurity. As you note in your post, the same tendency can be seen whatever the specific topic/lifestyle may be.

  8. “men should wear clothes tailored for men”
    ok, then I demand that no woman should ever be allowed to wear trousers or flat shoes ever again,in fact I demand that every women be compelled by law to wear long skirts with bustles and absurdly high heels.

  9. “What is it about people who are so utterly ignorant that they feel the need to demonstrate it to the world? No, we are not mentally ill. “

    He said ‘Many of these people’, not ‘These people’..

    • Many? Define many and how does he know? Is he a doctor of psychiatry? Has he carried out consultations and made a diagnosis? No. So he’s just another ignorant gobshite mouthing off about something he know bugger all about. If he’d said “some” he would have been accurate. “Some” people are indeed mentally ill. His meaning was clear. And he is as wrong as the ignorant, self-important, narrow-minded, intolerant fuckwits who made the same claim over at Tim’s the other week.

  10. We’ve never got away from silly schoolboy innuendo have we, the gutter press for the gutter brains of those who read them?

    I wouldn’t even wipe my arse on the rags mentioned, nor any of the others come to mention.

    The readers and commenters of such publications will be voting soon, no doubt heeding the encouragement of their chosen propaganda source…Gawd ‘elp us.

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