🎤 I Am Not Woke
I am a woman.
I am Gen X.
Which means I was raised on hot hose water, unsupervised bike riding, and the understanding that if you’re bleeding but still conscious, you’re probably fine.
I am not emotionally injured by words.
I have survived mall bangs, dial-up internet, and New Coke.
You are not going to take me out with a tweet.
I believe in equality.
Not the Oppression Olympics, where everyone shows up with a clipboard and a backstory.
I am a strong woman.
I pay my bills.
I change my tire.
I handle my life.
But yes, I still want a man who opens jars, kills spiders, checks the noise in the basement, and says,
“Relax. I’ve got this,”
while holding a flashlight he definitely does not know how to use properly.
That is not patriarchy.
That is foreplay.
That is chemistry.
Somewhere in the last decade, feminism stopped being about opportunity and turned into a poorly dubbed workplace orientation video that never ends.
Now everything is “toxic.”
Except the people screaming it on social media at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday with 14 pronouns and a coffee addiction.
We turned “live and let live” into
“live exactly like me or prepare for a 37-tweet thread.”
Disagreement is now violence.
Silence is now violence.
Looking at someone wrong is probably violence.
Everyone has a label, a trigger, a diagnosis, and a podcast.
No one has a sense of humor.
Personal grace is rarer than Sasquatch.
We replaced confidence with outrage.
Facts with feelings.
And actual problems with performance art.
I do not need a seminar to exist.
I do not need a warning label on jokes.
I do not need a committee to approve my opinions.
I am a woman.
I am independent.
I am emotionally stable.
I like men who act like men.
I like women who do not hate them for it.
And I would like to enjoy my coffee without being educated.
My wish for 2026 is simple:
May woke finally go to sleep.
Put on its little eye mask.
Take a melatonin.
Log off the internet.
And let the rest of us get back to living.
I am not woke.
I am awake.
And I would like my culture back,
preferably without a training session.
Happy New Year friends!
May this be the year we shed the cloak of woke for good and start living our lives as intended... Free.
Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass are now fining fire victims
Hundreds of Los Angeles residents who lost their homes during the Pacific Palisades fires have been issued fines and they’re PISSED
“We get this notice of non-compliance from the City of Los Angeles Fire Department that says, "Sorry that your house burned down, but go clear your brush or you're gonna be fined 750 bucks."
They thought it was a joke but it was real. They have no been fined
Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass are now fining fire victims
Hundreds of Los Angeles residents who lost their homes during the Pacific Palisades fires have been issued fines and they’re PISSED
“We get this notice of non-compliance from the City of Los Angeles Fire Department that says, "Sorry that your house burned down, but go clear your brush or you're gonna be fined 750 bucks."
They thought it was a joke but it was real. They have no been fined
The mob is out in force. The more I see of this cruel “activism,” the more convinced I am that I do not want them anywhere near me or my music, however that may affect my career. I won’t be held to ransom—no more blackmail. What I see more than anything is a spoiled and entitled childishness. I am not interested in being their “mother” or “queen”; these babies need to grow up and allow artists like myself the dignity of opinion and the space and freedom to create. Or let them have AI pop star avatars that never question them. Let the music industry do its worst; let it continue to infantilize and exploit them. Let them have a hologram, perfectly designed for an insular, echo-chamber culture. Perhaps I’ve lived through the last moments of the best period in popular music and, in fact, it’s over—or at least it is at the beginning of the end. If that is so, I have nothing to lose.
Just for the record, I have zero hate toward trans people; I do not deny anyone’s existence. The post that has caused such frantic panic among the trans activist mob is a graph that shows a steep decline in trans and non-binary identity in young people over the past few years in the USA. My declaration “it was never real” refers to the contagion that was undoubtedly aided by the submission of the media, captured medical institutions, and social media derangement. Recently, this wilfully blind and irresponsible behavior has been curtailed to some degree, as more and more people affected by it stand up and demand a long-needed audit of trans ideology, which continues to stamp its boot across anyone who decries its negative consequences. Children, families, women, and gay people have all been adversely affected by the insane belief that one can change sex—the core hallucination of this destructive and insidious movement—while bad faith actors have lined their pockets.
The arts as a whole are a shadow of their former free and inclusive selves. I’ve had the most free and fun time possible making the music I believe in over the past 30 years. If being a compassionate artist is to be my downfall now, then so be it. I know in my heart that one day, I will be remembered as a brave person, both morally and artistically uncompromising. In the long run, that will be my legacy.
@seriouslyisitme@atensnut If it’s anything like the parking garage our company uses, there are cameras at every entrance and exit but none elsewhere. And no posted security watching the cameras. I was dumbfounded when the garage told me that! Like, “I’ll take Use at Your Own Risk for $1000, Alex.”