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splainer memes
Aug. 20th, 2022 06:52 ama few years ago, there was an "overbearing mansplainer" meme with a big guy is too close to a woman who doesn't want to be there, and shouting in her face. It made me feel like I was witnessing an assault while also everyone's looking at me like i was supposed to prevent it. Thankfully it was quickly displaced by a milder one where a guy in sunglasses is talking to a disinterested date at a stadium.
Now there's a gender-reversed version of it, where a woman is too close to a man who doesn't want to be there, and shouting in his face. and it's just as disturbing, provokes a more direct anxiety.
but what's more disturbing is I'm seeing it WAY WAY MORE because of course it is. here I was worried that I was being too butthurt about the original meme, but men all over Facebook seem to have been so completely ass-blasted by it that they must have made a vengeance pact or something.
men, will we ever be OK? ever? is there any hope for us at all?
Now there's a gender-reversed version of it, where a woman is too close to a man who doesn't want to be there, and shouting in his face. and it's just as disturbing, provokes a more direct anxiety.
but what's more disturbing is I'm seeing it WAY WAY MORE because of course it is. here I was worried that I was being too butthurt about the original meme, but men all over Facebook seem to have been so completely ass-blasted by it that they must have made a vengeance pact or something.
men, will we ever be OK? ever? is there any hope for us at all?
