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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
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1:11p - Gay Rights Meme Wank
Gay Rights
"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines
We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on LiveJournal. There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights". If you don't believe in gay rights, then just ignore this. Thanks.
This little meme is going around Livejournal like chlamydia at the nursing home. And in many places it lands? It brings on the wank. Why? The way that it's worded really attempts to guilt trip anyone who reads it into reposting, because obviously if you don't repost a meme, it means zomg u h8 teh homoz.
A little mousie reported on wank_report about ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) jtothecapitalc blowing a gasket over this, calling many users on his friends list "meme sheep". I, for one, am much amused by his own meme example, using livestock rape - because isn't that where milk comes from? Comments get a bit messy from splooge.
I thus took it upon myself to do some grueling research, which involved putting the phrase “gay rights meme livejournal” into Google’s search engine and laboriously clicking on results.
Among the first results we have:
Those are all just from the first two pages of results (though, granted, not every result was actually pertinent to the meme at hand). None of the specific entries are really wanky in and of themselves, but if you look at the whole picture, it's pretty fap-a-licious. And I’m sure anyone here with an elljay has either seen this meme or someone rant about it on their flist. Is it not ridiculous?
Any time I found that someone actually did post the meme, it was very boring because no one commented to the entries because we all know that memes are boring and not really worth commenting on.
If the person (or people) who originated the meme wanted it to spark discussion, well, they done did it. Yet I don’t think this is the case - I think those few sentences were intended to guilt as many people into reposting the meme as possible, so someone somewhere could feel just a little bit livejournal famous.
Meanwhile, I'm so so sad that the meme I started doesn't seem to have caught on. :((((
ETA: Metafandom also links us to this, and this. Memes are serious business, you guys.
Son of ETA: The meme might try to take over LJ, but honorh provides us with evidence that more people are fighting back against the meme's tryannical oppression! Everyone knows that memes are tools of the patriarchy, and that they make offensive jokes at the expense of the mentally disabled.
Pee ess: honorh is not making fun of her friends. I, however, am. But all in good fun, you see. Because a meme ate my baby.
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8:32p
Blogger posts sappy but innocuous "Ten Things I Learned From My Four-Year-Old" list.
Includes the following paragraph:
A few weeks ago our cat was dying. So I explained death to my son and told him our cat was going to heaven. I was amazed that he grasped the permanence of death. Like the other members of my family he was very sad for several days. Then he asked, “Dad, how do you get to heaven?” I said,”Well everyone goes there when they die.” He said, “No I mean, how do you get there? Do go out the door and get in the car? Do you take a rocket?” I had to admit to him that I didn’t know how you get to heaven, I just believe in it. A few days latter he asked, “If God made me, who made God?” Good question. I haven’t thought about that one in years.
The spooge starts flying with the very first comment, and shows no signs of stopping. Apparently, the unbelievers are frothing mad that the OP would dare indoctrinate his child with the evil tenets of organized religion. And the believers are frothing mad that the unbelievers... um... exist. Both sides come out looking hilariously asinine, from the atheist who insists the OP teach his 4-year-old the ins and outs of every religion ever created by man, to the Christian who says, "Perhaps if you adopted Jesus as your personal savior, He would help proofread your posts and edit out your spelling mistakes." ZING!
Other highlights include repeated references to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, liberal use of "stupid Americans!", and even God Himself weighing in with an opinion: "I am real, so is heaven. All bow down to me or burn in hell for your disbelief and ignorance."
It ends up being an equal-opportunity idiotathon: No matter what side you're on in regards to religion, someone in this wank makes it look stupid.
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