Woke: A Guide to Social Justice

by Titania McGrath

Every time a man speaks, therefore, he is contributing to a culture of androcentric hegemony. In order to remedy this problem, we need to ensure that women today are speaking more than men. This is why I never stop talking, even when I have absolutely nothing of value to say.

I shall feed you banjo meat from Satan’s buffet. My revenge is gluten-free.

I douche with white male tears.

that odious bespectacled minion of the Antichrist who goes by the name of Toby Young.

For all the conservative establishment’s talk of thin-skinned ‘snowflakes’, I find the real snowflakes, like their namesakes, tend to be white.

As Winston Churchill put it, ‘The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.’

The problem with too much current feminism, in my opinion, is that even when it strikes progressive poses, it emanates from an entitled, upper-middle-class point of view. It demands the intrusion and protection of paternalistic authority figures to project a hypothetical utopia that will be magically free from offense and hurt. Camille Paglia

In the tepid dreams of a slutshamed goat

‘By speech,’ wrote the orator Isocrates, ‘we educate the ignorant and inform the wise.’ I can’t be the only person to have noticed that the phrase ‘inform the wise’ is an anagram of ‘feminist whore’.

This explains why the word ‘Amazon’ comes from the Classical Greek a- (ἀ-) and mazos (μαζός), which is best translated as ‘without breast’. The word was famously appropriated by the online bookseller of the same name. Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, claims that he made the choice because it sounded ‘exotic and different’, whereas I suspect that he was attracted to the word’s etymology. How perfect that the name of a corporate trillion-dollar tech giant run by a predominantly male board of directors literally means ‘No Breasts’.