Abstract
<jats:p>Single women in Malaysia often face societal pressure, as being single and childless can lead to discrimination, stigmatization, and stereotyping. Social media posts worsen the issue. Users are allowed to freely and publicly comment without seeing one’s face, while their identities remain safeguarded. This study examines how social media users oppose women who choose to remain single, specifically analyzing impolite comments directed at them. A discourse analysis approach was employed to analyze comments retrieved from a Malaysian celebrity’s Facebook**, Instagram**, and Twitter posts, where she expressed her intention to remain single for life. Using the frameworks of Culpeper’s (2011) (non)conventionalised impoliteness formulae, the findings reveal that commenters frequently used unpalatable questions and/or presuppositions, followed by sarcasm, innuendo, mimicry, insults, silencers, negative expressives, and pointed criticism or complaints. Social factors such as sexuality, religion, descent, and old age were highlighted by those who disagreed with the celebrity’s choice to remain single. Through linguistic analysis, this study illustrates how singlism manifests on social media through impoliteness. These findings provide insight into societal attitudes towards single women in Malaysia.</jats:p>