Ford gay pride meme
These memes are intended to perpetuate a discriminatory narrative about trans people, and there are a whole lot of reasons why a trans person or ally who saw them might find that narrative deeply offensive. (If that baffles you, I recommend a quick refresher on what, exactly, gender identity is.) Similarly, a trans person or ally who encountered the garlic bread version - and who was not familiar with exactly what the garlic bread meme traditionally means - would be totally justified in feeling, as one commenter put it, that the creator was “a transphobic (expletive)” whose ignorance “is destroying the very fabric of society.” Maybe that’s a distinction that doesn’t mean much to you. Certainly Boaz is no beacon of LGBT acceptance.
He maintains, as far as we can tell, your average high schooler’s understanding of sex and gender (which is to say, not much) and he’s pretty critical of “social justice warriors.” We’re certainly not celebrating his garlic bread meme, which - whatever its original intentions - has been widely interpreted and shared as a nasty criticism of trans people. And we’d also dispute his claim that the nature of sex and gender is a matter of “opinion.”īut we will say that, insofar as the meme was originally intended to mock the state of online dialogue, it definitely worked. Just look at any of the more than 2,000 comments that have been left on the macro: People on both sides - particularly the anti-trans side, who seem responsible for virtually all of the comments - are going absolutely berserk. They’re calling names typing in all caps launching into lengthy diatribes that misquote the scientific literature. Any commenter who questions the gender binary is promptly slapped with a hail of f-bombs and ad-hominems.īoaz would argue that’s exactly the joke: Online outrage culture has blown up so much, he says, that it needed garlic-breading to make evident just how extreme it had grown. Of course, in an ironic turn of events, the garlic bread became an object of outrage itself.