30 Feminist Memes That Might Make Most People Laugh But Trigger Sexists
Interview With Owner
You’d think that it’s the 21st century and that humanity has progressed enough for social and cultural issues in terms of gender, race, age and the like to not be a thing anymore. Alas, we can only dream.
But, hey, at least there’s numerous movements that point out the wrongs in hopes that people keep on keeping on and things are made right in the end. Even if the medium to do so is memes that focus on satire through misandry, like this dedicated Instagram page.
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This, it's all about how the girl "got herself pregnant" and everything she now has to do and can or cannot do to deal with it. If she's a minor...someone did that to her. If they are both minors or adults, 2 people made a baby, 2 people have equal responsibility for that.
Misandrist Memes is an Instagram page that posts “edgy memes for depressed queens”. Don’t be fooled by the tagline, though, anyone can enjoy the memes. But you gotta keep in mind that, while they can give you a good laugh because memes, they serve another purpose—and that is to point out the social, cultural and other issues around gender inequality, toxic masculinity and other sad realities women often find themselves in in terms of the patriarchy.
The page was created back in mid 2021. It currently houses 485 posts and is home to a bit over 23,000 followers.
The meme page also affiliated with the Sad Girls Against The Patriarchy podcast, hosted by two lovely ladies, Alison and Alexis, with whom Bored Panda got in touch. The podcast aims to educate and entertain folks by covering a variety of related subjects, like misogyny, toxic masculinity, and the harmful realities they tie in with.
"With a meme page, it's the same advice you give to a writer: write what you know. I've had traumatic experiences with men since I was a kid. A lot of us have. But it's not with 'men', actually," explained Alison, the founder of the meme page. "It's with the societal conditioning of men and the behavior that conditioning produces. I wish it wasn't such a trigger-happy buzzword, but that conditioning is--patriarchy."
And having an educational background in cognitive science further empowers Alison to channel spot-on remarks about toxic masculinity, misandry, misogyny and the like in meme form.
THIS!!! So many times, when people (women) try and raise a feminist issue and the comments are "what about men's mental health". FFS. 1. Feminists have long said that the patriarchy is damaging to men's physical and mental health and that toxic masculinity needs to be addressed for this very reason!! 2. If men's mental health is your cause, then DO SOMETHING about it. Don't just pay lip service to it or use it as some kind of defence in a blame game. Women are not responsible for men or their mental health. Men are responsible for men. Full stop.
"When someone asks if it's serious or satire, the answer is always yes. We love to be meta in the meme community," explained Alison. "There is no hate in the content I post. Go look for it, please. You'll see lived experience, disappointment, taunting, social commentary. But no 'men are inherently evil'. That's not true and it's not the point."
"When I do talk to 'kill all men' androcide advocates, I don't agree with them but it's hard to be too condemning when they're usually abuse survivors. The content is tame but if someone takes it further, it's for personal reasons."
Yeah, come on, ladies. Up your game and start pulling your weight.
So, why is misogyny still a thing in today’s day and age? The short answer, history. You can say someone just came up with it and it’s been like that for so long that it’s become a status quo.
Culture and religion had whole stances and viewpoints on women, explaining their roles, functions and statuses in society. The snowball grew bigger and bigger, ultimately leading to misogyny evolving into an ideology. And so the vicious cycle was perpetuated even further.
Numerous generations and millennia later, women said “enough is enough” and started what is now called the feminist movement. It strives to delineate, establish and achieve multiple layers of equality among sexes—political, economic, personal, and social.
While we’re not quite there yet as a society, feminism has made great progress in terms of establishing equality between men and women. There’s now legal reforms out there on sexual harassment in the workplace, there’s the whole fourth-wave feminism movement that’s all about pushing away the tide of online misogyny, and, last but not least, the entire #MeToo movement as well as campaigns like Everyday Sexism Project and No More Page 3 that forced many “untouchable” people to suddenly become accountable for their bigotry.
"We're on a better path now as Gen Z is growing up," added Alison. "The kids are OK. This is the farthest we've strayed from White Protestant norms since the English moved in."
"In case you were wondering, many of the Native societies were matriarchal before we overpowered them. 'Matriarchal' doesn't mean women dominated men. It means they were egalitarian, but women held positions of power. The communities were peaceful and collective. There's never going to be a violent uprising of women + our allies against men, because we don't do that. We're smarter and less aggressive than that."
I hate this statistic because it hides so much. Men are more likely to *successfully* commit suicide, probably because they choose more violent methods (leaving the disgusting cleanup to others). Women are 4 to 6 times more likely to attempt suicide, but are less likely to die. The idea that any suicide attempt is "a cry for help" is nonsense and dismissive of a very real issue. Nobody is winning here, but weaponising a bare statistic is foul.
"80% of all violent crimes and 90% of all sexual crimes are committed by men. Women or femme-presenting people are belittled, demeaned, and threatened in our daily lives. I get catcalled on the street. I have strangers invite me to get in their car. This is not an exaggeration and I'm not being dramatic," elaborated Alison.
"Every day, men remind me that I am smaller, weaker, and I can be overpowered. Men may think 'well I'm not one of those guys' but I have no way of knowing whether you are. I've received multiple death threats for the content I post—I have the screenshots. For memes like 'boys are stupid throw rocks at them'. I'm sorry, and you say women are more emotional?"
Sometimes I want to punch a hole in the wall. One day, I will.
And there are more stats to consider: the UN Women has a detailed rundown of statistics and other numbers putting violence against women in today’s society into perspective. Into real perspective—regarding everything from violence in public life to economic costs of violence to technology-facilitated abuse of women.
1 in 10 women in the European Union have experienced cyber-harassment since the age of 15. In 2021 alone, around 45,000 women around the globe were killed by their partners or family members.
Heck, even natural disasters resulting from climate change create situations that put women at risk of displacement, resource scarcity and food insecurity that might ultimately lead to social dependence and human trafficking.
This alone is indicative of a problem that’s far from resolved.
Messing with arrogant, sexist men is so much fun, especially when they're the types with bigoted logic that contradicts itself (which is often)
Except my crush and I have the same opinions on social issues.
In 2000, my best friends and I took a road trip from Long Island to New Paltz to stage an intervention with our other friend who was in a hideously toxic and controlling relationship. I remember one of us saying during the drive that the only thing that would get her out of the relationship would be another guy. When we got there, she'd broken up with the toxic àrsehole and introduced us to Nick. You could literally SEE the light radiating from her. They've been together for 24 years and welcomed a baby girl last February. Bless you, Nick, for saving our friend ❤
One thing’s for certain—the issues of misogyny and toxic masculinity have to be dealt with. While there’s a number of ways to do so, virtually all of them boil down to education, i.e. teaching the right kinds of behavior from the get-go and fixing the behaviors that aren’t right.
And when it comes to that, teaching has to be done by someone who’s trained and uses safe, effective materials and methods, all the while establishing a safe learning environment devoid of focusing on specific influencers, websites or groups that promote harmful attitudes.
The way we say things truly affects how we think about them. This applies to many situations. Even something like accepting responsibility for when you did something wrong, versus saying that something bad... happened. By hedging, and saying you think or you believe something, you can't be truly wrong... It can be difficult to accept that being wrong is really not that big of a deal, as long as you are open to learning. ... This is where some guys really suck... they can say a thing but not accept that they are wrong :(
And if toxic masculinity is already ingrained in your head, it’s not too late to do something about it. Question your understanding of masculinity by asking 'do you deny yourself things that feel feminine, do you judge folks for not being masculine enough or/and do you follow harmful behaviors dictated by others'?
Challenging those beliefs goes a long way, and accepting the fact that you are where you are and working towards fleshing out the reasoning and actions that are constructive instead of destructive gradually is a good first step.
So we blame the men of today what the men two thousand years ago started? Shame on you, we should work together to fix our problems, not against each other
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If you want to go down this rabbit hole, Bored Panda has a number of entertaining articles for you to enjoy, and you can start with one where an online page replaces “woman” with “man” to point out just how stupid sexism is.
If you want more memes, be sure to check out the Misandrist Memes Instagram page for more and tune into the Sad Girls Against The Patriarchy podcast.
But before you do that, why not share your thoughts and stories in the comment section below!
Wow, what an absolutely awful post! About a third of these are actually funny, the rest is just sexist s**t targeting men instead of women. If you'd switch out the genders in all of these, it would sound like an incel pot. Why do we always work against each other, women versus men, as if it was some black and white battle? We are all human in the end, we all want to be happy, and we should bound together against those wo make us miserable, not against each other.
Just to clarify, Feminism is about gender equality... or really equity. It's about making things safe and fair in a system that is bias to masculine gender and values. Some of these made sense, but most were hurt women out to get revenge on men. Not cool, and tarnishes the efforts of real feminists trying to make a positive difference in the world.
Hot take: if it's equ-whatever, it shouldn't have a name clearly biased towards one side
Load More Replies... Wow, what an absolutely awful post! About a third of these are actually funny, the rest is just sexist s**t targeting men instead of women. If you'd switch out the genders in all of these, it would sound like an incel pot. Why do we always work against each other, women versus men, as if it was some black and white battle? We are all human in the end, we all want to be happy, and we should bound together against those wo make us miserable, not against each other.
Just to clarify, Feminism is about gender equality... or really equity. It's about making things safe and fair in a system that is bias to masculine gender and values. Some of these made sense, but most were hurt women out to get revenge on men. Not cool, and tarnishes the efforts of real feminists trying to make a positive difference in the world.
Hot take: if it's equ-whatever, it shouldn't have a name clearly biased towards one side
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