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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Let me fix that for you, the overwhelming majority of straight men in medieval/renaissance times in Europe (judging from the ethnicity of the painting and the blue fleur de lis pattern) were agricultural peasants, who dressed in mostly filthy tunics/coifs and if they were lucky, boots, and ate hard bread and vegetables, very rarely meat.

Some of them were a little better off and wore armor.

The 1% ultra wealthy dressed like in the picture. So I'm deducing what this picture calls straight actually means very wealthy. Some of the very wealthy were famously gay too so it doesn't actually make sense.

It comes off as bigoted because the author seems like he really wanted to make a generalization against straight people, when actually, it's a minority of people who have this attitude, certainly not representative of straight sexuality, or even men in general. i guess it isn't bigotry when it's against a non minority group, right op ?

Your own internalized bigotry missed the opportunity to make a good point about not using bigotry to prevent oneself from doing their part for climate change. This us vs them mentality is exactly the reason why climate change is a divisive issue and you're contributing to that divisiveness.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a lot of words to say "Not all men"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I envy your ability to be able to focus so specifically on what you're looking to hear, but yes. Not all men is part of the message. Not the whole message, but definitely a part of it.

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