{"id":87919,"date":"2024-03-09T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=87919"},"modified":"2024-03-08T17:40:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T22:40:05","slug":"titania-mcgrath-from-parody-to-prophecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/03\/09\/titania-mcgrath-from-parody-to-prophecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Titania McGrath – From parody to prophecy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Doyle<\/a>‘s imaginary Social Justice Warrior known as Titania McGrath was created as a satire on some of the more extreme goings on among SJWs … today, her work can be seen as amazingly accurate prophecy of how our culture has deteriorated thanks in no small degree to the very, very woke:<\/p>\n

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“Titania McGrath” and Andrew Doyle<\/p><\/div>\n

Today is the fifth anniversary of the publication of Titania McGrath’s acclaimed book Woke: A Guide to Social Justice<\/em><\/a>. I created this intersectional activist and slam poet in order to satirise this new intolerant and authoritarian identity-obsessed religion and its stranglehold on society. Having seen so many posh and entitled activists berating working-class straight white people for their privilege, I could think of no more appropriate reaction than mockery. Even Harry Windsor was at it. And he’s an actual prince. <\/p>\n

Five years on, and I cannot decide whether I find it funny or depressing that so many of Titania’s ideas in that book ended up becoming reality. Nothing that Titania was ever able to suggest has not eventually been outdone by real-life activists. It is as though they were reading her book for inspiration. <\/p>\n

For instance, in a chapter from Woke entitled “Towards an Intersectional Socialist Utopia”, Titania makes the following observation:<\/p>\n