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.
Please recommend to me your favorite writing about Marilyn Monroe.
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Please recommend to me your favorite writing about Marilyn Monroe.
Happy St Catherine’s Day! She’s the patron of women students, anyone who works with wheels (e.g., potters), tanners, philosophers, and librarians. She’s also my confirmation saint. I love this painting of her by Caravaggio.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Happy St Catherine’s Day! She’s the patron of women students, anyone who works with wheels (e.g., potters), tanners, philosophers, and librarians. She’s also my confirmation saint. I love this painting of her by Caravaggio.
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I WAS LOOKING FOR A JOB
AND THEN I FOUND A JOB
AND HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW
AND THEN I FOUND A JOB
AND HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I WAS LOOKING FOR A JOB
AND THEN I FOUND A JOB
AND HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW
AND THEN I FOUND A JOB
AND HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW
I had so much fun at our live show! Thank you to everyone who came!
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I had so much fun at our live show! Thank you to everyone who came!
My dog when I give him a bath:
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My dog when I give him a bath:
Not to be dramatic but I think these women should be allowed to kill people over this.
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Not to be dramatic but I think these women should be allowed to kill people over this.
Monte has proved allergic to his habitual food, and was served his first meal of a new brand this evening. He’s not pleased and would like to lodge a complaint.
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Monte has proved allergic to his habitual food, and was served his first meal of a new brand this evening. He’s not pleased and would like to lodge a complaint.
Perhaps no one I trust less for cooking advice.
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Perhaps no one I trust less for cooking advice.
For the latest @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, I went deep with @adriandaub.bsky.social on Helen Andrews’ “The Great Feminization,” and the theory of sexual difference that’s taking the far right by storm: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
For the latest @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, I went deep with @adriandaub.bsky.social on Helen Andrews’ “The Great Feminization,” and the theory of sexual difference that’s taking the far right by storm: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
I wrote about the indignity of being ruled over by these people. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I wrote about the indignity of being ruled over by these people. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Probably bad that Ryan Grim is an MRA.
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Probably bad that Ryan Grim is an MRA.
I don’t think women’s professional ambitions should be limited by how tactfully or gamely they respond to men’s sexual entitlement.
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I don’t think women’s professional ambitions should be limited by how tactfully or gamely they respond to men’s sexual entitlement.
Me reading the emails.
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Me reading the emails.
I understand that it’s rhetorically useful for these people to feminize management, corporations and the wealthy—to make misogyny and antifeminism seem more plausible as a righteous populism of punching up. But you can’t just state empirical untruths!!
November 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I understand that it’s rhetorically useful for these people to feminize management, corporations and the wealthy—to make misogyny and antifeminism seem more plausible as a righteous populism of punching up. But you can’t just state empirical untruths!!
I’m one “had sex with underage women” headline away from this
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I’m one “had sex with underage women” headline away from this
Ah yes, the family; famously an institution free of violence and exploitation.
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ah yes, the family; famously an institution free of violence and exploitation.
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.”
He doesn’t know that we are going to the dog park later.
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
He doesn’t know that we are going to the dog park later.
On Election Day, the president announces that he will defy a court order so as to deprive millions of Americans of food.
November 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
On Election Day, the president announces that he will defy a court order so as to deprive millions of Americans of food.
Me coming home to my extremely offline wife.
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Me coming home to my extremely offline wife.
Humiliated and furious.
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Humiliated and furious.
