ONCE more, Twitter proves that it’s hostile to men. Not the platform itself, but the women who use it as a place to intimidate blokes with insecurity complexes.

With politicians to berate and expertise to quibble, the social media platform is exhausting enough without the endless stream of uppity broads who need to be mansplained. There simply aren’t enough hours in the day to slide into all of their tweets and tell them they’re wrong and hysterical.

The historian and TV and radio regular Fern Riddell was asking for it, of course. Parading her academic credentials around, insisting on being called “Dr” and not “Miss” by people she’s never even met, let alone proven herself to. Come on. If you don’t know what pneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis or oligoasthenoteratozoospermia are, then you’re not really a doctor, are you?

Imagine being so unsatisfied with your accomplishments that you need others to recognise that you actually know what you’re talking about. Perhaps Riddell should employ the services of a skywriter or the out-of-work Tango man to follow her around and disambiguate.

The columnist, author and supposed PhD in Victorian knickers or something, couldn’t even send a passive-aggressive email to the paper that had insisted on calling her “Miss” to register her discontent. Instead, she went for the ultimate feminazi move and quote-tweeted her thoughts, encouraging other educated women to be as vulgar as her and claim their credentials.

And it wasn’t just one tweet, but one of those indulgent faux-educational threads, about how earning a doctorate is an incredible achievement, and that women scholars often hesitate to use their academic title for fear of upsetting Dave with a third in politics from a former polytechnic.

“I just think it’s really arrogant,” says Tom, a racing fan and Spurs supporter. “There are loads of men out there who already feel emasculated by women in the workplace, political correctness and #MeToo. Why should we have to put up with them being better than us too?”

Quite. To then have the audacity to ask to be called by your earned title rather than one that reflects your marital eligibility is a step too far. Next these learned ingrates will be telling us it was even harder for them because they were on their period or something.

I mean, is spending at least seven years in higher education, working on a meagre stipend to gain expertise and contribute knowledge to your field even that hard? It’s just basically writing a book about something obscure. Literally anyone could do it if they were being paid £13k a year to read books, analyse, make notes, teach, mark and submit original research to academic journals. It’s as bad as that bird that dropped fag ash and tampons on her bed and called it art.

Personally, I think bartenders work harder, but you don’t see any of them boasting about how much they know about pulling pints and asking for special treatment. Tom continued: “I don’t have a PhD, but know I could get one so I don’t see the point in wasting my time getting a bit of paper. Personally, I think my time would be better spent telling women I don’t know what my unsolicited opinion is.”

Ms Snowflake challenged the decision of Canadian paper The Globe and Mail, to dispense with academic titles in favour of giving only medics the title “Dr”.

You know, the people who save lives with their work rather than just contribute substantially to knowledge and understanding with painstaking original research.

Imagine the sheer brass neck of comparing the highest degree possible to a medical honorific? It’s so entitled. Don’t they know how selfish/arrogant/whiny that sounds to men they’ve never even met?

There’s nothing attractive about immodest women who own their own intelligence and hard work. With that sort of attitude, she might as well start rehoming cats now. No man goes for that sort of thing, and we all know that being appealing and palatable to men is a woman’s number one priority.

I often wonder what Twitter must be like for these women. They can go a whole day just sharing Millicent Fawcett quotes, Terminator GIFs and insightful, topical commentary without having to remind someone that she’s not meeting the standards expected of her by the patriarchal caste system she didn’t even bother to contribute to making or sustaining. How nice it must be to live in that bubble. How nice to not have to hide in a toilet cubicle to rage-tweet a half-baked hot take to your seven followers who don’t remember who you are.

Women today have no sense of humour, and are clearly deficient in manners. Once upon a time, a man calling a woman “miss” was seen as a sign he was a gentleman and worthy of her time. Today it’s a sign that he’s an oppressor and worthy of her derision. What a sad state of affairs. We wouldn’t be where we are today if women hadn’t spent millennia doing what men wanted.

If every woman had abandoned being a wife or having kids to do an advanced degree, we might not have jet engines, microwaveable hamburgers or Channel 5.

I hope “Dr” Riddell and her like are happy with themselves. All they have done is show us education turns you into a diva, and remind us how much better it was when women wrote shopping lists instead of theses.