Comedian Andrew Doyle was of course the creator of Titania McGrath, the entitled Wokestress whom many people took seriously. Yet she was amazingly prescient, with many of her spoofs of the woke eventually becoming true, with life imitating art. Click on the video below, and enlarge it, to see eight minutes of Titania’s prescience.
I won’t be able to post much (except for a huge post tomorrow a.m.) until Thursday, but this should fill some of that lacuna. Enjoy.
Titania McGrath predicted much of today’s woke madness.
Was she giving them ideas? pic.twitter.com/4gLHDWGEDp
— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) March 23, 2024
It almost seems like this is an elaborate April Fools joke, but if you google Titania McGrath Andrew Doyle there is a Wikipedia page documenting this parody. The twitter link Professor Coyne provides is amazing for the number of examples of Titania parody statements which are LATER found in “honest” statements in the literature. It seems like woke folk treat Titania as one of them and Andrew Doyle is making the mess bigger (unintentionally).
I folllow Titania on twitter, and “she” announces every time she is right. And she documents the crazy phenomena that she predicted that actually happened. This is no joke: it’s life repeating spoofs!
Thank you, Ms.- er uh -Titania, for bringing some humour to these sticky wicket issues. To paraphrase the late great Jimmy Buffet, ¶ If we couldn’t laugh, we might nuke out our brains.¶
I was interested in the solo traveller female in Pakistan, how risky is it?
Apparently like any country you can without it being fraught with danger as long as you observe local rules and make like a local.
i.e. mini skirts, tight shorts are out, no surprises there.
Commonsense seems to be the order of the day and possibly mucho bravado! As opposed to macho 🙂
https://beyondthebucketlist.co/is-pakistan-safe-american-woman/
I think websites like this are quite dangerous.
This one is clearly written by some lefty-liberal and is heavy on the anecdotal “evidence”.
She “doesn’t trust” the US government, and neither should you, so don’t worry about Pakistan being high on their list of countries that aren’t safe to travel to. The US government are just bigots.
Hey, so what you got groped in Islamabad. You might get groped in New York too.
They. Are. Not. The. Same.
Indeed, common sense says you might occasionally get groped in NYC. However, you won’t be stoned for adultery, hanged for blasphemy, or lynched for being in the wrong town square or looking at a man. You won’t be wrongly accused of defiling scripture and ripped to pieces by a baying mob of rabid, salivating men. You won’t have acid thrown on you and your daughters for them going to school. You almost certainly won’t be raped, murdered or savaged for wearing the wrong thing. Most importantly, by visiting Times Square, popping in to a Starbucks and meandering about the USS Intrepid, you won’t be financing an evil, theocratic, authoritarian and heinously misogynistic regime that causes millions of women to exist in captive misery.
This lady ‘travel blogger’ also explained the following (just an FYI – the italics below are mine):
I rode a motorbike with my legs not side-saddle, with my not-yet-husband. I also am permitted to eat in men’s dining rooms on occasion. These are things local women don’t do. (So that’s OK then?)
If most women around you are wearing a burka, you should be too (Repression is freedom. Obviously.)
Try to avoid eye contact with strange men. Eye contact is seen as an invitation or sign of “interest” in conservative areas (Liberating.)
Don’t lie down in front of men. You might think this is a weird rule to point out but … that’s a no-go (Empowering, no?)
You will often be asked to eat in restaurants in the “family room” … it’s where they put women and children… I enjoy this because the men’s section is usually better (erm… even sarcasm fails me here.)
Unmarried women and men should NEVER be alone together. Like ever. So, don’t put yourself in any compromising positions (Just good old-fashioned western family values.)
You might not be permitted to visit everywhere that men can (Well, you know, feminism isn’t always about equality. Is it?)
Even if I wasn’t always approached, you are always watched (Reassuring, as a woman. I suppose?)
To deter a too-friendly man you should say that he reminds you of your little brother. It’s a playful way to make clear your intentions. (much better than being able to say get lost without being raped)
Theft is virtually non-existent in countries that are predominately Islamic in faith. (Is that because they’ll cut off your hands, feet or a combination thereof?)
She concludes: You’ll see that you’re just as safe there as you are anywhere. So why the preamble containing dozens of warnings?
The woman who has written this silly and irresponsible travel blog even links to the Gay Pakistan Travel Guide, where a kindly fellow advises us ‘queer’ travel in Pakistan is safe! He goes on to explain: “In the 1980s, punishments for homosexuality increased under President General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, with the inclusion of Sharia Law in the Penal Code, leading to life imprisonment or even death by stoning. It is important to understand how LGBT rights in Pakistan impact both local and tourist communities. While homosexual acts remain illegal, they are only sporadically prosecuted by authorities”. (Freedom from the western cis-hetero normative narrative at last!)
He even mentions the role of backward, westernised, British law in oppressing the LGBT community: “Local LGBT individuals continue to face challenges due to a mix of British law and Islamic law present in the country’s Penal Code”. Those damn western governments! (even though homosexuality has been legal and socially acceptable in Britain for many decades…)
Long story short. I’m from the UK and I took my teenage daughters to NYC last year. I’m taking them again for a couple of weeks in July, and I will feel very comfortable doing so. I won’t be taking them to Pakistan anytime soon.
Thanks for sharing this, I missed most of her series. So sorry your series came to be. What jackasses we have become losing ourselves in parody.