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3 days agoYes, posting this doesn’t necessarily make OP sexist, that’s true. Just clueless and a proud member of the boys club that is Lemmy. Like I said, it’s embarrassing.
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…Lemmy is so embarrassing at times. Did you know that Lemmy has a reputation for being bad for women? This meme is blatantly sexist. And here’s day two.
I think that was the intent. Lemmy is extremely anti-Google.
Well, it would be difficult for a format like that to bring out the biases of meme creators.
One of the reasons this meme format is problematic is that this is a screenshot from “500 Days of Summer” which was a film that was wildly misunderstood by misogynists. The entire point of the film is to show the perspective of the male character, which villainizes the female character when she breaks his heart when she dumps him. But by the end of the movie the viewer is supposed to realize that she did nothing wrong and just wasn’t as in to him as he was into her.
Incels and misogynists everywhere misunderstood the hell out of the themes and message. So it’s not a great movie to take a meme format from.
Yes, it would still be sexist if it were the other way around. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a meme with this format which didn’t have a “good” and “bad” side.
This meme format is inherently sexist. Anytime you have a meme format that has both a man and a woman on it, and one side is going to be the “bad” side, it’s always going to bring out the biases of whoever is creating it.
Ok. This meme is.
This meme format is sexist. Why is it always always always the woman who has the negative side?
I am not obtuse, in my opinion. My personality is consistently perceived as obtuse, hence the name. The label has been consistently applied to me my entire life, so I co-opted the word for myself.
People call me “white knight” and “social justice warrior” and whatever a lot, too. But I like the word obtuse better. This obtuse side of men only emerges when something bothers me, usually of a societal nature.
I’m right about this meme and if I was better at expressing myself I wouldn’t get so many downvotes. Being downvoted for being right isn’t actually a hobby of mine, but sometimes it sure feels like it is.