Home > Author > Titania McGrath
41 " That’s the wonderful thing about identity politics; you never have to explain yourself, or even develop your thoughts into what right-wingers call a ‘coherent argument’. "
― Titania McGrath , Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
42 " The day my intersectional feminist poetry earns me as much as a male banker is the day the gender pay gap can be declared a myth. "
43 " The word ‘woman’ comes from the Old English for ‘female human’, whereas ‘man’ simply means ‘human’. Linguistically speaking, this implies that women are deviants from the norm. In order to rectify this, I sometimes refer to men as ‘unwomen’, and boys as ‘ungirls’. I likewise often refer to straight people as ‘ungays’, so that they too can understand what it feels like to be othered. "
44 " But many activists criticised the march, pointing out that it focused largely on cisgender white women. ‘What about African-American women with penises? "
45 " I am a teller of truths, a slayer of patriarchs, a fearless metaphysician. I teabag the foes of justice with a gender-neutral scrotum. I suckle the babes of hope with my sinewy teats of equality. "
46 " Horses are a social construct. "
― Titania McGrath
47 " When white writers put words into the mouths of black characters it is known in the literary sphere as ‘crackerblack’. We’re all familiar with the concept. Some of the more cringeworthy examples of cracker-black can be found in the films of Quentin Tarantino or the more offensive novels of Mark Twain. Most famous of all is the play Othello, in which our supposed ‘great bard’ tried his hand at a kind of Moorish patois. ‘I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss.’ Find me one black man who speaks like that. "
48 " As an adherent of the Religion of Peace™ and one of the world’s leading austere religious scholars, Abū believed in acts of peaceful genocide and austere executions, as well as keeping sex slaves in an austere and peaceful way. "
― Titania McGrath , My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism
49 " As a person of mixed race, Bergdorf is a true victim. It is not her fault that she inadvertently gives the impression of being an irredeemably pampered cunt. "
50 " Bigot’ is another useful word. It is defined as ‘a person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions’, so I tend to use it against anyone who has the audacity to disagree with me. "
51 " Ryanair, for instance, has a gender pay gap of 72 per cent. How are the CEOs not behind bars? "
52 " If truth bombs were eggs, I’d be a chicken. "
53 " The phrase ‘free speech’ is a racist dog whistle. The only way we can stop fascism is if the police are allowed to arrest people for what they say and think. "
54 " I do not hate men. I pity them. They are lesser creatures, anencephalous dicks with dicks who have been taught from birth that they are the commanders of the universe. It’s a kind of culturally enforced mass delusion. If you train a dog to lick a plate, that doesn’t make it a washing machine. "
55 " This is why it was so important for Barack Obama to become president of the United States, because even though the lives of poor black people didn’t improve during his tenure, they could at least console themselves with the fact that, for eight years at least, there wasn’t some dumbass cracker in the Oval Office. "
56 " In any case, if it is true that men are superior at sports, why is it that transgender athletes tend to win more medals after they transition to female? 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. "
57 " Woman’ and ‘man’ are figures of male speech. Gender – no less than sexuality – is an irreducible fiction. David M. Halperin "
58 " There are some who have the audacity to suggest that transitional medication for a child is a form of abuse. These people would sooner an individual grow up in the wrong body than administer a few harmless injections to thwart the tyranny of nature. Who’s the real abuser here? "
59 " Social media also leaves an electronic trail, which enables activists like myself to gather evidence to discredit our opponents. For instance, it was recently discovered that James Gunn, director of the Guardians of the Galaxy film series, had tweeted some jokes about paedophilia many years ago. In my humble opinion, joking about paedophilia is even worse than actual paedophilia. Don’t get me wrong; an act of physical molestation is obviously abhorrent, but at least it can’t be retweeted. "
60 " As Huffington Post reporter Michael Hobbes has argued in his article ‘Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong’, it is the stigma imposed upon the obese by doctors and the media that causes the most damage, rather than the fact that they can’t brush their own teeth without wheezing. "