If you have scrolled your merry way through Twitter in the last couple of weeks, it’s likely you have come across people saying “the feminine urge to” – followed by something relatable, like drinking a coffee.
According to Know Your Meme, the relatable tag was first used in 2009 but it surged in popularity in the last few weeks, popping up on Twitter and TikTok left, right and centre as people share things they believe to be universally feminine.
Of course, some of the memes are stereotypes, reductive and basically old fashioned in acting like men act a certain way, and women act another.
But – memes being memes – they don’t have to be and “the feminine urge to” has become a way of introducing any broadly relatable statement applicable to any gender.
With that all taken care of, here are 16 of the best memes and tweets from the “feminine urge” genre.
Being alive in 2021 is spending too much on coffee to swig while roaming around aimlessly on an aesthetic walk:
the feminine urge to spend £3 on a silly little latte every time you set foot outside
— Ellie Redpath 🦋✨ (@inelliegant) November 4, 2021
When you’re on that walk and you need to cross the road, it can be pretty embarrassing:
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the feminine urge to pretend you’re not trying to cross a street so a car doesn’t wait for you at a stop sign
— (@Liv_Agar) November 5, 2021
Of course, that can be pretty tiring so you might then get the feminine urge to have a nap:
the feminine urge to take a nap after doing nothing all day
— Dot Dot (｡+﹏+｡) (@DotxDotx2) November 3, 2021
Or a bath or shower, followed by some intense zoning out:
the feminine urge to lay in bed wrapped in a towel for hours after a shower
— san-dhying (@sandhyada1) November 7, 2021
Sometimes the urge to overachieve is strong...
The feminine urge to achieve everything in your life before 25
— duke silver (@surajdukhii) November 3, 2021
So you better get a new diary to document your achievements:
the feminine urge to buy a new journal every time a fresh life phase hits
— negine jasmine (@neginejas) November 4, 2021
When disaster strikes, dyeing your hair can often feel like the only solution:
the feminine urge to go blonde when a minor inconvenience happens
— una (@blusmarine) October 31, 2021
And sometimes you just feel like acting like a d***:
The femine urge to be a horrible human being 💯
— Synth🦦 (@SynthOnN64) November 10, 2021
Or doing nothing at all:
the feminine urge to pic.twitter.com/S4CvLFxORZ
— hunter harris (@hunteryharris) November 12, 2021
Since the meme has taken off, it has evolved, as memes do, and people have also posted “masculine urges” which include cooking meat, replying to texts badly and spending a lot of the time on the toilet, apparently (which isn’t recommended, according to one doctor):
the masculine urge to respond with “fair enough” to everything
— aryan (@funkysoupboy) November 11, 2021
the masculine urge to respond to only one part of the paragraph
— brian (@the1banjo) November 3, 2021
the masculine urge to sit on the toilet and disassociate for 45 minutes
— Haley OC (@MILFWEEED) November 6, 2021
recently fallen victim to the masculine urge to cook massive pieces of meat pic.twitter.com/yZQBzu55EU
— MY DOG DIABETIC (@floorclar) November 3, 2021
the masculine urge to respond with “damn that sucks”
— kirby (@bonebelt) November 10, 2021
And there are also loads of popular “the non-binary urge to” tweets, aswell:
the non binary urge to be fine as hell
— Seven ୨୧ (@HoodUzui) November 8, 2021
So that, in a nutshell, is “the feminist urge to”. We hope that all makes sense:
The feminine urge to add “if that makes sense lol” after eloquently explaining something.
— caitlin is cold 🍁 (she/her) (@theathenakeene) November 7, 2021
