Air conditioning is “sexist,” writes Taylor Lorenz, a staff writer for The Atlantic is a response to this anti-AC article in the New York Times:

Air-conditioning is unhealthy, bad, miserable, and sexist. I can’t explain how many times I’ve gotten sick over the summer b/c of overzealous AC in offices. #BanAC https://t.co/QPME4lMTVS — Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) July 7, 2019

Yes, it’s men who are having the “meltdown”:

Dying at all the men in my mentions having a literal *meltdown* because I suggested raising office temps a few degrees in the summer. No amt of AC on the planet will help men online chill — Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) July 8, 2019

Lorenz is not alone in this thining:

This is a hill I am willing to die on. AC is so bad. You can’t even enjoy summer because it’s winter indoors (and in Ubers). — Alexia Bonatsos (@alexia) July 8, 2019

This could go down as one of the hottest takes of all time:

“Air conditioning is sexist” is my favorite 4th of July take BY FAR. — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 8, 2019

Also, we’re going to need to see a few peer-reviewed studied on this claim, Ms. Party of Science:

You can't get sick from air conditioning, you nitwit https://t.co/wthIR44djN — Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) July 8, 2019

Because we would like to make the opposite argument:

Air conditioning allows millions of elderly Americans to live happy, fulfilling lives in the South and Southwest without dying. But yes, it also means you have to bring a cardigan to the office while you doxx the kids of people you dislike. — Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) July 8, 2019

It’s impossible to tell what’s satire and what’s not:

This belongs in The Onion. FFS, everything is sexist nowadays. https://t.co/Fu13Rc0Nfo — Mary Elizabeth (@mchastain81) July 8, 2019

And here’s Charles C.W. Cooke throwing ice cold water on this hot take as well as the entire anti-ac movement:

This is probably the most boring of the inevitable summer takes. https://t.co/iWgF2xXMKV — Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 8, 2019

It’s boring because it’s inconsistently applied; we never read Luddite arguments against heating. It’s boring because, as a guy who has spent a lot of time in Europe and who has seen thousands die for want of air conditioning, it’s built atop a fantasy. — Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 8, 2019

And it’s boring because it’s always couched in up-to-the-moment woke language when, in fact, the argument is insufferably insular and privileged. Know who suffers the most from a lack of air conditioning? Elderly people. Poor people. Minorities in the South. — Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 8, 2019

#BanAC? I spent the summer of 2003 in France. There was a heatwave. I saw some of the consequences with my own eyes. Nearly 15,000 people died. per the NIH. pic.twitter.com/qXVAhMCWie — Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 8, 2019

I remember going to Intermarché and Carrefour and Bricomarché and Monoprix and Super U, and to every electrical store I could find in search of a fan. You couldn’t get one anywhere. Opening the window helped a bit, but I was 19. It was 40 °C. — Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 8, 2019

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