![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. Certainly Boaz is no beacon of LGBT acceptance. Maybe that’s a distinction that doesn’t mean much to you. (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.” 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. Usually it reads something along the lines of “if I had a dollar for every gender, I’d have two dollars,” or “if I had a book for every gender there was, I’d have have Donald Trump’s “Think Like a Champion” and “The Art of the Deal.” Boaz says he was specifically inspired by a less-than-tasteful iteration that reads “If I had an atomic bomb for every gender there was” next to a map of the 1945 bomb strikes in Japan. In the case of this latest and very infamous garlic bread meme, the original source was an explicitly transphobic image macro that makes regular appearances in places like 4chan and r/The_Donald, Reddit’s dedicated Trump fan club. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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