Sometimes Twitchy posts just write themselves. For example, check out what is surely one of the sillier things we’ve ever read on Twitter, via Britain’s National Union of Students and their live-tweeting of today’s conference on women’s issues:
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 Campaign (@nuswomcam) March 24, 2015
Nope, that’s not satire. It’s 100 percent authentic and unfiltered lunacy:
https://twitter.com/GOPMommy/status/580423392123191296
Our foremothers chained themselves to fences. I’m sure they’d be thrilled you can’t handle clapping.https://t.co/iZst50kKyw #nuswomen15
— Kemberlee Kaye (@KemberleeKaye) March 24, 2015
https://twitter.com/GodfreyElfwick/status/580409584327778306
https://twitter.com/Kata_basis/status/580401700500082691
.@nuswomcam Terribly insensitive to people who don't like jazz, isn't it?
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) March 24, 2015
And to people without hands.
Upside: we now know feminists can be trolled by simply clapping at them.https://t.co/iZst50kKyw#nuswomen15
— Kemberlee Kaye (@KemberleeKaye) March 24, 2015
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/580417781797134338
The UK has gone from The Iron Lady to #nuswomen15. Rue Britannia.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) March 24, 2015
@RBPundit @nuswomcam I could be wrong, but even in the delicate days of corsets women could handle clapping.
— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) March 24, 2015
Go home feminists, you’re drunk. Or insane, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you’re drunk. https://t.co/iZst50kKyw
— Kemberlee Kaye (@KemberleeKaye) March 24, 2015
An open bar at the conference would explain it.
Are you fucking kidding me? https://t.co/9HUFeWuwQQ These people expect to function in the real world?
— RBe (@RBPundit) March 24, 2015
I don't mean this callously: If clapping is triggering your anxiety, you need therapy. That's not healthy. https://t.co/G7vRuAEsQL
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) March 24, 2015
@hotspur007 @ImGregCook @nuswomcam an embarrassment to real women everywhere
— numptyknows (@sidders54) March 24, 2015
https://twitter.com/LordSkipVC/status/580415214463684609
@nuswomcam holy hell. Seek therapy.
— Dbright21 (@Dbright21) March 24, 2015
https://twitter.com/ChrisBarnhart/status/580418334895796224
Ha ha ha!
https://twitter.com/rowena_w/status/580401430323990528
https://twitter.com/hotspur007/status/580403191977787393
https://twitter.com/GOPMommy/status/580409882567917568
@KemberleeKaye @MetricButtload @nuswomcam Jazzhands is a trigger for me. It brings back horrible memories of me not being able to dance.
— Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley) March 24, 2015
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/580428255754342400
Oh, and stop talking at the tables, too!
Please try to limit chat on your tables when delegates are speaking on motions, it can be distracting for others #nuswomen15
— NUS Women's Campaign (@nuswomcam) March 24, 2015
Maybe they’ll hand out crayons at the next meeting in order to allow delegates to communicate in a less stressful manner.
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