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Girl-On-Girl Law-breaking: The "Did You Know" Slut-Shamers Of Tumblr
Teenage girls observe a great many things to practise on Tumblr, just one of the more than prominent, and more dissentious, uses is slut-shaming each other. How a few little pictures started (and continue) a meme-based tirade confronting women and girls.
Final summer was large for slut-shaming on Tumblr. (That is, if there can be a time that'due south especially "big" for something as persistent and widespread as slut-shaming.) The higher up image, offset uploaded to Instagram by the picture's subject — a girl named Sabrina, who otherwise posts largely inoffensive selfies and, occasionally, GIFs of her kissing her young man — was posted to the site on June xviii, and though it was rapidly deleted by its owner, the prototype had already started to spread.
A year before, in the summer of 2011, an image of model Cole Mohr holding a sign reading "Dear Girls: DON'T BE INSECURE/You don't need make-upwards & nice clothes/ you're all fucking beautiful." The post attracted attending, but it was only after a parody photograph set up past Tumblr user "einsteinonacid" was posted that "Dear Girls" became a meme. Einsteinonacid'south post had over 150,000 notes in the span of two months. By summertime 2012, "Honey Girls" was a thing, roundly criticized past bloggers and beau Tumblr users alike. Just since then, the meme'south Tumblr tag has gone relatively quiet. (Though, as Amanda Marcotte noted on Wed, where Tumblr users' natural-beauty-business concern-trollers might accept faltered, The New York Times recently picked upwards the torch.)
A sexist meme is a sexist meme, but is one that is introduced by a guy somehow easier to quash?
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Cole Mohr'southward original image, set above the meme-ified parody response of Tumblr user "einsteinonacid."
"Hey Girls, Did You lot Know" is a sexist meme — another epitome-regulating, slut-shaming meme — that persists. Only it's 1 started and largely perpetrated by girls themselves.
Not different "Dear Girls," the original photo set has been widely mocked amidst Tumblr users both male and female — over again, many of whom responded both intelligently and hilariously, and some of whom responded in a fashion that created entirely new issues of their own.
But not all the posts yous'll find searching the "Hey Girls, Did You Know" Tumblr tag aim to contradict the original post'south slut-shaming message. Many of them support it — some mimic the original text nearly exactly, while others object to obvious makeup use. (And in doing so, circumvoluted us back to "Dear Girls," formerly an entirely split meme. It'south the way these things tend to grow, edifice on each other and metastasizing and getting progressively worse and worse.)
The funniest retorts are from girls. But and then are the meanest.
A Facebook page created in "honor" of the original meme, founded last June, has nearly 37,000 likes. While many of the fan-submitted posts are critical (or at least reduce the meme to silliness), the most popular ones, and the ones about frequently reposted by the page'due south owner, are ones like this 1 — posts created by girls to shame and tear down other girls.
It seems there's but something very likable — in the net sense, at least — about a girl using social media to attack other girls. Information technology may well be easier to build a coalition confronting an "enemy" who is dissimilar from you lot — equally in the girls vs. boys nature of the responses to Male child In Outer Space — but it'due south another when the enemy IS you. "Yous're not beingness a girl in the right way" is still a very popular argument to brand. So, as well, is "I'm non similar other girls."
One of the "Hey Girls, Did You lot Know" folio's about-liked posts.
I of the weirdest things about the Facebook folio (if you could pick but one) is the juxtaposition of mean, misogynistic images similar these with the many wholesomely simple, teenage pop-culture-y posts, like this motion picture of SpongeBob, or this cute cartoon well-nigh a dinosaur family.
It'south merely really surprising until, I suppose, y'all remember your own years in center school. It's a strange and brutal historic period range, no question. You are a kid and you lot are not.
There are dozens of reasons why young girls (and not-young women) might feel the demand to hate and publicly criticize other girls and their gendered behavior: personal insecurity, the societally-enforced perception that doing and so is what gets you male approval, jealousy, internalized misogyny, etc. Tumblr notes and Facebook likes are only the newest incentives among many.
Source: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katieheaney/girl-on-girl-crime-the-did-you-know-slut-shamer
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