{"id":47248,"date":"2019-03-08T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47248"},"modified":"2019-03-07T11:44:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T16:44:15","slug":"wokescolds-rejoice-titania-mcgrath-has-been-unmasked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/wokescolds-rejoice-titania-mcgrath-has-been-unmasked\/","title":{"rendered":"Wokescolds, rejoice! Titania McGrath has been unmasked!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the woke wolfpack finally dragged down and destroyed the great Twitter troll Godfrey Elfwick (RIP<\/a>), the satirical void was eventually filled by the ultra-woke poet Titania McGrath<\/a>. All good things must come to an end, apparently, because we recently discovered that noble Titania is actually — gasp! — just another Twitter troll<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When a former Oxford University postgraduate student set up a satirical Twitter account in April 2018 under the name of Titania McGrath, he had no idea of the social media storm that was to follow.<\/p>\n

Aiming to poke fun at the \u201cidentitarian left\u201d who use \u201cvicious tactics to push identity politics above all else\u201d, the parody account quickly amassed over 180,000 social media followers.<\/p>\n

After months of speculation, the individual behind it can finally be revealed – as a 40-year-old former private school teacher with a doctorate in Early Renaissance Poetry from Wadham College, Oxford.<\/p>\n

Dr Andrew Doyle created the account to mock today\u2019s \u201cwoke culture\u201d that is obsessed with gender fluidity, identity politics and hates freedom of speech.<\/p>\n

Describing Titania McGrath as \u201ca militant vegan who thinks she is a better poet than William Shakespeare\u201d, Mr Doyle told The Telegraph<\/em>: \u201cWoke is the concept that everything must be inclusive, inoffensive, that you always use the correct language and that you must be hyper aware of other people\u2019s sensitivities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis social justice movement is full of people who are arrogant, narcissistic and very certain in themselves. The very idea that they could be wrong doesn\u2019t even cross their mind. That to me is incredibly funny. I thought Titania could embody all of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of people are desperate for this culture to be mocked. The account has become so popular because people are sick of feeling that they can\u2019t say what they want. It used to be the case that if someone spoke out of turn, you would say that\u2019s a bit much, apologise and everyone would move on. Now you post a screenshot on Twitter and try to get someone fired.<\/p>\n

\u201cTitania is staying the stuff that most people want to say.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the woke wolfpack finally dragged down and destroyed the great Twitter troll Godfrey Elfwick (RIP), the satirical void was eventually filled by the ultra-woke poet Titania McGrath. All good things must come to an end, apparently, because we recently discovered that noble Titania is actually — gasp! — just another Twitter troll: When a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,57,28,53],"tags":[463,592,1020,593,310],"class_list":["post-47248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-humour","category-media","category-politics","tag-parody","tag-poetry","tag-progressives","tag-socialmedia","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ci4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47251,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248\/revisions\/47251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}