I’m sorry that was a bit glib of me, allow me to elaborate.

I’m of the opinion that basically any version of this meme that is not misogynistic would not be recognized as a meme by a modern audience.

First of all, the meme does not exist in isolation, it remixes images, ideas, esthetics already in the meme ecosystem. The bare-chested black and white image is a clear callback to the chad and old school cool archetypes, both quintessentially masculine. In fact, I’m not sure there is an image that you could present to modern meme audiences that stars a women and would immediately say “uncompromising cool artist - gender neutral”. That is in and of itself in indicator or pervasive misogyny, but that’s not surprising because the misogyny is often overt.

Which is my second point. The “black and white bare chested man cool, women and twinks and gender-nonconforming people not cool” is not an accident of the image choice, it’s a feature. A lot of standard meme templates are just vectors to enforce the norms of patriarchy by shitting on “soy boys” and “simps” and other men deemed unworthy. The misogyny is baked into the format.

The third issue is that nostalgia memes are inherently misogynistic, even by meme standards. They aspire to RETVRN to the (often imagined) good old days when men were men and horses were horses and patriarchs traded women among themselves like cattle.

The medium is a message, and this medium really fights you when you try to transmit the gender neutral version of this message.

That said, I’d love to see a version of this meme with Bikini Kill as the top picture and commercial manly men losers as the bottom row. I just don’t think meme audiences would get it.

Is it?

Here’s a gold star ⭐️

Thinly veiled misogyny has entered the chat.

She would be easily dominated by that kid called Exponent.

This. I’m still playing Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.

In general, this is great advice. But have you seen the dreck that comes out of the nyt lately?

When a report is made, it goes to four instances.

1…2…3

But they were all deceived, for another report was made?

Do we still have the top level comment rule? Cause this one right here seems like a great reason to enforce it.

Even SSTO has the single stage. To orbit.

Yeah, that’s the main problem with matrix. Not that all clients are dumpster fire UX built to scare off normies.

Please make cash go away already.

EDIT: Oh wait, it’s you. Again.

Can you just please take your dirty pieces of paper and fuck all the way off? Run off to some dark corner and cry censorship like you did last time.

Basically you hemorrhage contributors because fuck this shit and then core components get more and more behind.

You had me going in the first part, I admit.

Literally dozens of us

Does Bluesky count? It’s practically overrun with the brookings crowd.

Venus is literal lead-melting, acid raining hell.

(X) DOUBT

Not enough to affect the way they vote apparently. Or punish their candidates in primaries. Or push for change through the party apparatus. Or or or.

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Ugh. I know that feeling. That’s why I’ve blacklisted salt stack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5993959

There’s a particularly toxic combination of ignorance, laziness, NIH and hubris that you need to make a mistake like that, and I want it nowhere near my servers.