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Anyone can be an activist. By simply adding a rainbow flag to your Facebook profile, or calling out an elderly person who doesn’t understand what ‘non-binary’ means, you can change the world for the better. Indeed, social media has now made it possible to show how virtuous you are without having to do anything at all.
When queer activists appropriated the word ‘gay’ from its traditional meaning of ‘happy’, they achieved their goal of simultaneously increasing gayness and decreasing happiness. Such is the power of language.
I have words of wisdom for all young girls. No matter what you do in life, or how much you achieve, you will always be victims of the patriarchy. Understanding this is the key to your empowerment.
Next time you are in close proximity to a male, observe his behaviour carefully. Everything he does is phallic in nature. He stands tall and erect, always attempting to dominate. He strides from place to place, thrusting his legs outwards, onwards, like he is yearning for copulation. He spits his words out, projecting each syllable as though simulating a violent ejaculation. When it comes to men, every gesture, every word, every thought, is an act of sexual aggression.
The optimal solution would simply be to invert the current social order. Women should be paid twice as much as their male counterparts to make up for the injustices of history.
It isn’t enough for us to have a female Prime Minister, female First Minister of Scotland and female Head of State. These are just tokenistic appointments intended to give the impression of equality. It’s a trick.
This is how social justice works. If you feel something to be true, then it is true. For those of you who are sceptical on this point, I would simply ask that you defer to my superior wisdom. I have neither the patience nor the inclination to explain myself in full. Let’s just say it has something to do with institutionalised power structures and leave it there.
On a series of posters across the nation, this group made the astonishing claim that obesity is the second most common cause of cancer after smoking. The implication is clear. If you are fat, you deserve to die. Telling an obese person to lose weight is like telling a person of colour to bleach their skin. It is not OK to erase someone’s identity like this.
As Jill Bowling and Brian Martin confirmed in their landmark essay ‘Science: a Masculine Disorder?’, the entire discipline is ‘embedded in a set of social, economic and political relations embodied through patriarchy’. They call it a ‘science-patriarchy system’, which is a roundabout way of saying that men invented science in order to justify grabbing women by the tits.
Let’s be very clear about this. Any form of segregation of the sexes, in sports, in schools, in toilet facilities – anywhere at all – is a reprehensible form of gender apartheid. Except when it comes to mosques, in which case it’s empowering.
YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have made it explicitly clear which opinions you are allowed to have. If you don’t want to be censored, don’t say the wrong things. It really is that simple.