I don’t see how your analogy is relevant here. When you search the word “sexism” on most search engines you are taken to the wikipedia article for sexism which talks extensively about women’s rights movements as well as issues that feminists are concerned with in the today. It can therefore be said that the word has political connotations. By calling something sexist, you accuse it of discrimination using a word with political connotations. This is a conjecture that is political in nature and can therefore be considered a political statement. The word stupid does not have these connotations and thus would not be considered a political statement.
What you are missing is that by calling you, personally, sexist, people aren’t advocating for political change. They’re asking you to not be a dick and not discriminate/generalize based on gender/sex, which is what these memes generally do while also mocking female-identifying persons as being boring and vapid while male-identifying people are quirky and fun.
(usually these memes tell on themselves by stemming from a place of not knowing enough women on a personal level, but I digress)
The vast majority of people do not see problems like this in an internet joke because they acknowledge it as such. I’m not here to “be a dick” or “discriminate/generalize based on gender/sex”; I saw a funny meme and posted it here. If anything the women in the meme are acting like normal people, the same way most people would while the men are busy being stupid. You claim that this mocks women while the boys are the punchline.
The users above, as far as I can tell, thought that the meme format was sexist and not me. I said “not everything has to be political” as a way of mentioning that this isn’t the sort of response that I expected and that I didn’t intend for it to be interpreted in this way. I do concede that the phrase “political statement” was not the most accurate one to use. Really I should have said that calling something sexist is a pretty harsh criticism to throw at a meme like this and left it there.
I’m also going to ignore your ad-hominem pseudo-psychological analysis of me where you imply that I posted this meme because of I supposedly lack close relationships with women.
calling something sexist is a political statement
How is sexism inherently tied to politics? There is nothing being advocated for by calling your meme sexist.
If I say you’re stupid, is that a political statement?
I don’t see how your analogy is relevant here. When you search the word “sexism” on most search engines you are taken to the wikipedia article for sexism which talks extensively about women’s rights movements as well as issues that feminists are concerned with in the today. It can therefore be said that the word has political connotations. By calling something sexist, you accuse it of discrimination using a word with political connotations. This is a conjecture that is political in nature and can therefore be considered a political statement. The word stupid does not have these connotations and thus would not be considered a political statement.
What you are missing is that by calling you, personally, sexist, people aren’t advocating for political change. They’re asking you to not be a dick and not discriminate/generalize based on gender/sex, which is what these memes generally do while also mocking female-identifying persons as being boring and vapid while male-identifying people are quirky and fun.
(usually these memes tell on themselves by stemming from a place of not knowing enough women on a personal level, but I digress)
The vast majority of people do not see problems like this in an internet joke because they acknowledge it as such. I’m not here to “be a dick” or “discriminate/generalize based on gender/sex”; I saw a funny meme and posted it here. If anything the women in the meme are acting like normal people, the same way most people would while the men are busy being stupid. You claim that this mocks women while the boys are the punchline.
The users above, as far as I can tell, thought that the meme format was sexist and not me. I said “not everything has to be political” as a way of mentioning that this isn’t the sort of response that I expected and that I didn’t intend for it to be interpreted in this way. I do concede that the phrase “political statement” was not the most accurate one to use. Really I should have said that calling something sexist is a pretty harsh criticism to throw at a meme like this and left it there.
I’m also going to ignore your ad-hominem pseudo-psychological analysis of me where you imply that I posted this meme because of I supposedly lack close relationships with women.