Perhaps this is a protest post, lol. If anyone knows how to appeal a removed post let me know.
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If the post offends or condescends
We simply can't ignore'em
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That place was silly. Let's not go back there again.
Brb, just gotta check your comment history to see if we're on the same side or whether I should be sexist against you for being a sexist.
Batman:
If you sexist a sexist then the number of sexists remains the same.
Batman splitting in two every time he sexists another sexist to keep the balance.
But if I sexist two sexists? That's progress baby
What's the result? I need someone to tell me what my opinion is
Remember kids, the only was to fight misogyny is to punish people who discuss or criticisize it
What’s wrong with being sexy?
“-ist! Sex-ist!”
lol why was that removed??
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lemmy.ml rules 1 and 2 (i think you intend to be criticising this trope, but you're also using it as a punchline)
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I made a Rick and Morty butter robot meme. Rick was representing "Authors and Writers" while the robot represented "Strong Female Characters". Rick told the robot to "get in the refrigerator" in reference to the Women in Refrigerators trope.
You could maybe argue that the meme is an example of the trope, but you'd have to be bad at memes or arguing.
Oof. People can't even post memes about things that frustrate them now? A lot of trans memes are about shit like this, if we removed all those there'd barely be any left.
Yeah. Like, maybe I'm misinterpreting the ruling, but it sure seems like the mod thought the meme was sexist. For the life of me I just cannot understand that perspective. I was trying to explain my feelings towards the trope in a way that I hoped relatable or understandable to the common person. That's what memes are for, lol.
In the original R&M scene Rick is literally the villain. He abuses his power of creation to make a machine seemingly capable of independent thought and feelings, and then condemns it to a menial existence. The humor is derived from empathizing with the poor little guy. That feels like a perfect metaphor for the refrigerator trope to me.
I could have instead posted a purely academic analysis of the trope, but that's not exactly a meme is it?
I mean it hits some of the notes of the people that make fun of "strong female characaters" so I can see how a tired mod might have mistaken it for one.
Like a strong woman is artificially created and an alpha male shows her her place or whatever
I'm banning you for being sexist now
You could maybe argue that the meme is an example of the trope, but you'd have to be bad at memes or arguing.
In short, a mod.
"no, you!"
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