Did singer Charli XCX write an article titled "The Death of Cool" about God and gender roles? No, that's not true: The passage attributed to Charli XCX on social media is taken from an essay by a University of Oklahoma student about God and gender roles. The quote is taken directly from the student's assignment and does not appear in the singer's "The Death of Cool" article on Substack.
The claim appeared in a Dec. 12, 2025 post on X account @enayessa (archived here). It opened with the caption:
really girl?
This is what the image in the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from x.com/enayessa.)
The passage in the tweet read:
The article was very thought provoking and caused me to thoroughly evaluate the idea of gender and the role it plays in our society. The article discussed peers using teasing as a way to enforce gender norms. I do not necessarily see this as a problem. God made male and female and made us differently from each other on purpose and for a purpose. God is very intentional with what He makes, and I believe trying to change that would only do more harm. Gender roles and tendencies should not be considered "stereotypes". Women naturally want to do women things because God created us with those women desires in our hearts. The same goes for men. God created men in the image of His courage and strength, and He created women
The tweet includes a purported screenshot of what appears to be Charli XCX's Substack account. The singer, whose real name is Charlotte Emma Aitchison, did publish an article on Substack titled "The Death of Cool" on Dec. 10, 2025 (archived here). The tweet also includes a reposted message from Charli XCX's X.com account linking to the article.
The cited passage about God and gender does not appear in Charli XCX's article. A search of the post found no matches for the words "God," "stereotypes," "gender" or "gender norms."
The quote comes from an assignment by University of Oklahoma student Samantha Fulneck for her psychology class. She wrote an essay on the effects of gender norms on the mental health of middle school students, citing the Bible as a reference. Her professor gave her a zero on the assignment, which became a topic of national interest, as Newsweek reported (archived here).
The Turning Points USA chapter at the University of Oklahoma posted multiple tweets about her essay on their X account @TurningPointOU.
Samantha's Essay (4of5) pic.twitter.com/jX3iu22I6f
-- TPUSA_OU (@TurningPointOU) November 27, 2025
The screenshot used by X account @enayessa matches a screenshot posted on the @TurningPointOU account on Nov. 27, 2025 as this screenshot shows:
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from x.com/TurningPointOU.)
