16 of the best ‘the feminine urge to’ tweets and memes as the trend goes viral

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:

When you’re on that walk and you need to cross the road, it can be pretty embarrassing:

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Of course, that can be pretty tiring so you might then get the feminine urge to have a nap:

Or a bath or shower, followed by some intense zoning out:

Sometimes the urge to overachieve is strong...

So you better get a new diary to document your achievements:

When disaster strikes, dyeing your hair can often feel like the only solution:

And sometimes you just feel like acting like a d***:

Or doing nothing at all:

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):

And there are also loads of popular “the non-binary urge to” tweets, aswell:

So that, in a nutshell, is “the feminist urge to”. We hope that all makes sense: