Memes are images that are humorous depending on how they are perceived and I discovered that their relation to women was an important topic to discuss. An overwhelming majority of the search results for "women in memes" appeared to place women in 3 separate categories: sexually attractive, naive, or crazed with a knife. I noticed that many memes depicting intelligent-looking women had messages mocking their professionalism or physical traits, such as glasses being a symbol of geekiness. Similarly, the infamous meme of the "crazy girlfriend" with wide, staring eyes and phrases about her clingy, violent nature, attempts to be entertaining to men. Young people who view memes that are derogatory to feminists, as shown in the last two images in the blog post below, may be persuaded that feminism does not stand for equality, but wrongly benefits women alone.
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