There is a bit of misogynies in that designation; are there no “edgeladies” among the gamers? I thought being “cool” (or whatever the current slang is) meant you had to bow to the dominant gender in all things.

These shallow newbies don’t even begin to approach the degree of shocking sardonic wit (emphasis on wit) of their forerunners (not exactly ancestors any more).
They need a little more reading of George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde in their curriculum (a forlorn hope, I am sure). Even Gilbert and Sullivan are miles out of their league.

Curiously the word might trace back to Oxford:
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Of uncertain origin; originally British slang of the 1910s. In a letter, dated 6 October 1944, J. R. R. Tolkien mentions a contemporary of his at Oxford University T.W. Earp, calling him “the original twerp”; but no corroborating evidence for this etymology has come to light.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/twerp
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I’m happy to take Tolkien’s word for it. 🙂

Here is the Oxford debate. It is as Sgt. Mom says.

–Oxford Union, “Charlie Kirk: ‘You should be allowed to say outrageous things'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnqSNEiLTeYM

It made me so angry that I was having uncharitable thoughts. I’m enough of an Anglophile that the Oxford Debating Society still means something.

I do wonder how the current version of this Society could vote this twerp in. His remarks — both the original and those after — were either poorly considered or leftist agitprop.

It’s a clever quip, but in George Abaraonye’s case with Oxford it is actually apt. Mr. Abaraonye knows his test scores were subpar. Oxford accepting him means one of two things; they are lowering their standards in his case for something other than academic reasons. Or, Oxford is an institution where academic rigor is a facade.

If it’s the latter, he should not want to be a member of an institution not living up to its own standards. If it’s the former he should not want preferential treatment. A grown man should not want to be coddled, especially when seeking an education.

So either he is choosing to diminish himself, or Oxford is choosing to diminish itself. Either way, George Abaraonye is a lesser man for participating in the charade. I hope he matures and one day learns to navigate adulthood as a man of virtue. And I hope Oxford soon gets the leaders its great history and name deserve.