Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Refusing to call witnesses during the second impeachment was so contemptibly cowardly that I’m still gobsmacked by it almost five years later.
look at what this leadership did with oversight powers of SCOTUS in the middle of multiple devastating scandals for the conservatives. look at the half assed impeachments and half-assed oversight during the teens.
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Refusing to call witnesses during the second impeachment was so contemptibly cowardly that I’m still gobsmacked by it almost five years later.
Notice: “work sucks” when directed at men means that we need better working conditions and higher pay. “Work sucks” when directed at women means that they should drop out and have babies.
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Notice: “work sucks” when directed at men means that we need better working conditions and higher pay. “Work sucks” when directed at women means that they should drop out and have babies.
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@moiradonegan.bsky.social owns literally my favorite example of biting understatement in at least year. From Salon:
“There is a real appetite for antifeminism among some intellectual elites that is perhaps psychologically informed,” says Donegan.
"Perhaps psychologically informed" indeed.
“There is a real appetite for antifeminism among some intellectual elites that is perhaps psychologically informed,” says Donegan.
"Perhaps psychologically informed" indeed.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
@moiradonegan.bsky.social owns literally my favorite example of biting understatement in at least year. From Salon:
“There is a real appetite for antifeminism among some intellectual elites that is perhaps psychologically informed,” says Donegan.
"Perhaps psychologically informed" indeed.
“There is a real appetite for antifeminism among some intellectual elites that is perhaps psychologically informed,” says Donegan.
"Perhaps psychologically informed" indeed.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
On Wednesday, Conde Nast management illegally fired four union leaders. While our union fights these illegal dismissals, the “Fired Four” have been left with no severance or COBRA coverage. Please donate to help cover their living expenses at the link below.
Senator scolds the voters for daring to think that he and his colleagues might be accountable to them.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Senator scolds the voters for daring to think that he and his colleagues might be accountable to them.
This very much includes men’s supposedly self-deprivation g claims that men are “simply naturally more violent” than women are—an exculpatory myth that conveniently excludes men from culpability for their actions while claiming to condemn them.
I think I had underestimated how much men really believe that they are essentially different in character than women are.
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This very much includes men’s supposedly self-deprivation g claims that men are “simply naturally more violent” than women are—an exculpatory myth that conveniently excludes men from culpability for their actions while claiming to condemn them.
I think I had underestimated how much men really believe that they are essentially different in character than women are.
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I think I had underestimated how much men really believe that they are essentially different in character than women are.
I loved this conversation with Andi, and tried to get at something important that I think has been lost: feminism is a discrete ideology, and has a more specific meaning than “anything any woman ever says about gender.”
![The vagueness and nonspecificity that characterize “Did women ruin the workplace?” are hallmarks of right-wing rhetoric, says Moira Donegan, a Guardian columnist and writer-in-residence at Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research who co-hosts the podcast “In Bed With the Right.” “One revealing thing about the conversation is that you can tell these people are in an epistemic bubble where they’re not being challenged on what they’re saying. [They] presume a kind of intellectual entitlement where these are not words you have to make your audience understand. It’s one thing to do that when you’re at the National Conservatism Conference; it’s another when you’re in The New York Times.” Donegan adds one more term to the list, pointing out that the conversation “uses ‘feminism’ as a euphemism for ‘women,’ rather than defining feminism as a set of political commitments or ideals. [When] it’s espoused by a woman and is about gender, that’s presumed to be sufficient to define it as feminism.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sdu4rudzew7rtf26u5o4bdf7/bafkreiewwm3xmwvvxkqspo6ao6seoro5bcmynxh4imtcfhtbr54gxb7bgm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I loved this conversation with Andi, and tried to get at something important that I think has been lost: feminism is a discrete ideology, and has a more specific meaning than “anything any woman ever says about gender.”
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Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did!
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Women didn’t ruin the workplace. Capitalism did
When your debate centers on whether women should exist in public, you’ve already lost.
www.salon.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did!
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
It’s really bad. I get nothing but gutter misogyny.
i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It’s really bad. I get nothing but gutter misogyny.
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SF: Please be on the lookout for this missing boy, esp in the Forest Hills area: www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...
S.F. police ask for help locating missing 10-year-old boy last seen in Forest Hill neighborhood
A 10-year-old boy was reported missing Monday morning in San Francisco.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
SF: Please be on the lookout for this missing boy, esp in the Forest Hills area: www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...
I understand that this is controversial but I think that women are oppressed as women and should organize on behalf of their gendered self-interest.
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I understand that this is controversial but I think that women are oppressed as women and should organize on behalf of their gendered self-interest.
Everyone saying that last week’s elections marked the beginning of the end of the MAGA era really underestimated Democrats’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Everyone saying that last week’s elections marked the beginning of the end of the MAGA era really underestimated Democrats’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
You think you’re a serious adult with dignity and then you try to put on a duvet cover.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
You think you’re a serious adult with dignity and then you try to put on a duvet cover.
Sounds like a campaign solan to me.
Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Sounds like a campaign solan to me.
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Apparently, it is negotiable!
Health care isn’t negotiable.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Apparently, it is negotiable!
At a certain point you have to conclude that the Democrats agree with the Republicans that they are contemptible and illegitimate, and don’t deserve to govern.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
At a certain point you have to conclude that the Democrats agree with the Republicans that they are contemptible and illegitimate, and don’t deserve to govern.
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After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.
Somebody please primary this useless, anti-choice, vacancy of a man.
Deal has been reached, I’m told by multiple sources, and Kaine has announced his support
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Somebody please primary this useless, anti-choice, vacancy of a man.
If the pro natalists want me to have babies they should really talk to the gaggle of 11 year old white boys screaming 6-7 at me on the street, because let me tell you those kids are hurting your case
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If the pro natalists want me to have babies they should really talk to the gaggle of 11 year old white boys screaming 6-7 at me on the street, because let me tell you those kids are hurting your case
Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
I wish those calling for the unmasking of ICE agents would be explicit about the obvious reason why this is necessary: these men need to be identifiable because justice demands that they be punished, severely, for what they are doing. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I wish those calling for the unmasking of ICE agents would be explicit about the obvious reason why this is necessary: these men need to be identifiable because justice demands that they be punished, severely, for what they are doing. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Concerning how few people can tell that something is AI when they don’t want to.
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Concerning how few people can tell that something is AI when they don’t want to.
For a long time after I moved to San Francisco, when people from New York would ask me what it was like, I’d tell them, “Everyone goes to Burning Man and works for a phrenology app.”
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
For a long time after I moved to San Francisco, when people from New York would ask me what it was like, I’d tell them, “Everyone goes to Burning Man and works for a phrenology app.”
Pro tip go to a community theater show
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Pro tip go to a community theater show