Twitter Alpha males takedowns

The sheer volume of women magnificently owning the ‘Alpha male’ dissing this woman’s doctorate makes it one of 2025’s very best things on Twitter

John Plunkett. Updated November 19th, 2025

Time to return – briefly – to the world of Twitter, where it turned out the very worst people can sometimes be a spark for the very best of things.

It all began when ‘Alpha male’ type Richard Cooper – some kind of life coach dude, by the looks of it – took time out from his busy schedule to troll this woman’s fabulous academic achievement.

It’s @juliet_turner6, an ecologist & evolutionary biologist and newly-qualified DPhil at the University of Oxford who went on Twitter to share her joy at doing this.

Here’s what Cooper had to say.

And we mention it again (we’ve already rounded up a whole bunch of first degree comebacks) because it prompted no end of women to share the moments when they too celebrated a similar achievement in higher education (it’s called higher for a reason, Richard).

And the sheer volume of people who took the time to respond surely makes it one of 2025’s very best things on Twitter.

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