The National Union of Students Women’s Conference is underway in the U.K., and they’ve got some interesting ideas on the table. For instance, there’s this motion to prohibit gay white men from appropriating the mannerisms and speech patterns of black women.
https://twitter.com/timothy_stanley/status/580428844965957632
Cool, cool. What else we got? Anything that might apply to conduct at the conference itself?
Some delegates are requesting that we move to jazz hands rather than clapping, as it's triggering anxiety. Please be mindful! #nuswomen15
— NUS Women's Student Campaigners Network (@nuswomcam) March 24, 2015
Oh. Well, that’s a little unusual, but nothing that Twitter assholes would pounce on. Surely.
@nuswomcam @Nero Open palms can be triggering. Well, so can closed ones… you should just ban any outward expression of approval.
— Argonot (@JLat55) March 24, 2015
.@nuswomcam @Nero I looked up Jazz hands and this is what showed up pic.twitter.com/d0h6toxfH3
— Steve Skipper (@NorfolkGTI) March 24, 2015
https://twitter.com/TheRealBepo/status/580426030730575872
https://twitter.com/whenindoubtdo/status/580553512444100609
https://twitter.com/LarsStanley/status/580430553566060545
https://twitter.com/estatua_rxn/status/580422260781150210
https://twitter.com/SmokeNMirrors71/status/580477705591910400
https://twitter.com/DissidentBiker/status/580432082410799104
@nuswomcam y not try slapping the ones with anxiety #justathought
— Paul Burton (@paulmcfc9320) March 24, 2015
https://twitter.com/AllieEm120/status/580423989174136832
https://twitter.com/DrKC4/status/580421508071329794
https://twitter.com/LaveenLadharam/status/580516748258066432
https://twitter.com/TwoBasicShapes/status/580532654895992833
https://twitter.com/Spikey_Buddy/status/580532910224228352
https://twitter.com/SGTROCKUSMC82/status/580506636952969216
Look, people—you can attack feminist culture however you like, but ask yourself one question: If you were an alien visiting earth and found out that humans expressed group satisfaction by slapping their upper appendages together like a bunch of goons, would you be impressed?
Now let’s all sit silent and unmoving for the rest of the day.
Photo via Garry Knight/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)