Even when unattributed, all encountered in the wild. Some names have been redacted because people have lost jobs for having the wrong opinions. Direct quotes are in italics.
I still think it's funny that people get surprised that young folks don't want kids when you've spent their entire childhood telling them that motherhood is the lowest possible aspiration in life and that pregnancy will ruin their lives. (@wrowclif)
I have a question for older people. Why do you have children, if you’re going to spend the rest of your life denying young people what they want, insulting them for being lazy, stupid and ignorant, deriding their taste in music and fashion, and taking away their rights? (@PaulbernalUK)
I was overwhelmed with information about how tough it was to be a parent at the same time as I was being told it was the most extraordinary, blissful, transformative rite of passage and that there was no other love like it. That I was, in essence, living half a life by not having children of my own while simultaneously being so incredibly lucky to pursue a responsibility-free... girl about town, career woman existence. (Article in the Times on infertility)
Kids today are hyperactive couch potatoes with a short attention span who play Minecraft for hours.
Men: Women ought to get married and have babies.
Also men: I'm not ready to settle down.
You can't claim the Jews killed Jesus while also insisting Jews are from Europe.
Pro-Pals resurrecting millennia-old antisemitism to own Israel at the same time as saying Jews aren’t indigenous to the land. Make it make sense.
I do not understand Progressives uncritically supporting the Palestinians who deny equal rights for women and criminalise homosexuality.
Jew haters reject Israel for being an "ethnostate" (despite having over 20% minorities). They also reject Zionism because Jews aren't a "real" ethnicity (despite Zionism starting as a secular nationalist movement). Could you please at least make your hate consistent?
You don’t know what a woman is but Kamala Harris lost because she’s a woman.
It’s academics’ job to be critical about everything – but not gender.
If the Garrick Club can bar women, why can’t lesbian clubs bar men? (Dec 2024 the Garrick Club now admits women.)
If genitals don’t define gender, how does removing them affirm it? (Internet meme)
I don’t understand why I have to accept everyone as they are, but I have to change, because everything I do upsets them.
When woke politicians talk about wanting more women in government when they pretend not to even know what women are, I weep.
Somehow like 95% of people are "queer" now yet "queer' is still a marginalized minority. It's amazing.
If gender is perfomative and is identity, why are surgery and hormones necessary to affirm it?
If all human beings have a gender identity, why do only trans people get theirs protected in law?
Aren’t “trans” and “non-binary” mutually exclusive?
I love how they claim there are only about 10 gender-critical people in the world and/ or everyone is a 'Bot' while simultaneously making massive lists of 'transphobes'.
I don’t get it. If trans rights are supported by the majority and rejected by a minority, where is the source of the genocide impacting trans people across the west? How can you be widely accepted by society whilst also being the victim of social cleansing?
To make the claim transwomen are women you have to simultaneously know what a woman is, and deny you know what a woman is in the same sentence. Once you've achieved that, pretty much everything else is plain sailing.
So how come misgendering is literal violence and actual literal violence is celebratory, peaceful protest?
"It was only tomato juice," said the man who claimed he’d die if you called him Colin.
Why, when people who claim a synthetic sex identity want to pee, there is only a handful of them going about their lives who are no threat, yet when anyone speaks about the harms of the ideology, there are vast swaths of them being murdered and oppressed?
Curious that the same people who don’t believe in a higher power have decided gender is some invisible ‘essence’.
Still can’t stop laughing that in Spanish a non-binary person is either “no binario” or “no binaria”.
When women had evidence to support their arguments against the GRR Bill Scotgov rejected it on the basis of being "anecdotal." When trans activists and Scotgov funded groups had evidence to support their arguments it was valid because it was "lived experience."
It always amazes me how the same people who are absolutely convinced of the power of women's words to hurt trans people are also the ones so skeptical of the danger of men in women's spaces.
Them: We must respect the language people use to describe themselves and people who don’t do this are appalling. Also them: I wouldn’t personally describe you as a feminist.
We condemn female genital mutilation, we are shocked by past abuses like foot-binding and the castrati, but... if it's happening now in our culture it must be OK?
People I know, in the past: "You should be more aware of how you come across to others!"
People I know, currently: "You should stop caring so much about what others think!"
America: Be yourself!
Also America: Be like everybody else.
Also America: Have therapy to find yourself. That’ll be $60.
Hey you. Be yourself. But also tone it down a little. Read the room. But also speak your mind. Be responsible with your future. But also take risks, life is short. Kindness is everything. But also you'll get nowhere if you're not fighting. Don't sell out. But also grind/hustle. (@PrinceVogel)
Bibliolaters: "The Bible is perfect, but we fail to understand it correctly because of our sinfulness."
And also: "The Bible refutes evolutionism, and everyone should be able to see that perfectly clearly." (@SteveTiger999)
Doctors being so bad at identifying Autism is hilarious when you consider how good children are at figuring out who's Autistic when they're deciding whom to bully. (@AmberlynWhite)
@IntrovertProbss The people that always complain I don’t talk enough never seem to actually listen when I do speak
"I am religious and live by faith. Evolution is a religion that requires faith so it's stupid and wrong". (@grenangle)
Everyone should be free to express themselves however they like. <turns off replies> (@oliverburkeman)
I get so confused when y’all go on and on about how society doesn’t allow men be emotional. It is women who are punished for emotions, it is women who get told that we can’t do or be certain things because we’re “too emotional”. (@onosowobo. She adds “While we worry about men’s feelings.”)
100% of the pro-life protesters “should have been aborted”.
Feminists used to say that looks don’t matter but we should also wear ugly clothes and no makeup.
People say we have a lot of different selves, there’s no such thing as free will and all actions result from subconscious prompting or habit – and at the same time assume criminal responsibility exists and the guilty should be punished.
We need to sell things, but we don’t want people to buy things because it’s bad for them.
How can we have austerity (boo!) AND consumerism (boo!)?
Live in the moment, but learn from experience.
Schrodinger’s migrant: refuses to work while taking our jobs.
Men who mansplain how to fight the patriarchy are the patriarchy.
Every time a (prominent) man is accused of sexual crimes, someone will say "he's innocent until he's proved guilty", as if that meant he really was innocent. At the same time many complain that headlines are too bland, and not sufficiently condemnatory – we don't say "Bestial Monomaniac Charged with Unspeakable Crimes". That's because the accused is innocent until proved guilty.
Moan about Twitter and Facebook but resist advice to curate your feed: “Too much trouble,” “I don’t have the time”. Both mean “I don’t know how”.
I am a middle-class libertarian and I’m against banning things, especially smoking in pub gardens, but people who play loud music on public transport and say "Can I get a latte" should be shot.
In the 19th century, the groom said to the bride: "With all my worldly goods I thee endow". The law stated that on marriage, ALL a woman's possessions became the man's. And everybody knew this.
More here, and links to the rest.
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