Memes are cultural ideas that are passed from person to person, in a sort of Internet oral tradition. Or, you know, they're photos of cats with shit written on them. Sometimes both! One of the most popular memes is Good Guy Greg — Good Guy Greg is rad dude who does nice things for you. He is a good guy. Good Guy Greg has found his female equivalent in Good Girl Gina. However, Good Girl Gina isn't a rad lady who does nice things for you. Instead, she's a disposable joke who loves sex, not having needs or wants, and basically being a Real Doll, but alive. I'm guessing the alive part is probably negotiable.
According to the Daily Dot, Redditor LaTex_fetish decided to scrape the popular image site Quickmeme to "capture the essence" of Good Girl Gina."seeing what I thought was the hundredth Gina who cooked breakfast after giving a guy a blowjob while he smoked a joint and played Nintendo." Her findings were more than depressing:
"So what can we glean from all this? If someone wants to be a Good Girl, then reddit already has it figured out. A Good Girl is an object to be lusted after. A Good Girl makes sure you're sexually satisfied, either by her or someone else," LaTex_fetish added. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go barf."
In total, LaTex_fetish found 443 variations of the meme that sexualize or objectify women, 226 that praised women for being available for sex (even when they didn't want to be), and 73 that depict women preparing food or drink.
Did I say depressing? Because depressing. A "good guy" can be so many wonderful things, but a "good girl" is pretty much a walking (that part's negotiable) fuck buddy who loves to bake pies. Her polar opposite? An oversensitive harridan who loves to lie about being raped. Those are the two options for women in the land of this meme, that is all women are. Either a compliant sex toy or a lying bitch. It's like these dudes have never known a real woman — I wonder how true that is for many of them.
Perhaps most offensively, they're just not funny. There's an attempt with Good Guy Greg to prove you're smart and cool with your meme, to be clever is what gets you attention and gets your meme promoted. But with Gina, it's cruelty and crass that's rewarded. It's predictable, tired, and boring. Part of me feels sad for the young dudes who are coming up with this shit — when you start to actually know women, you're probably going to get a painful, humiliating crash course in what it's like to be a person. As for the older dudes who do this crap? Knock it the fuck off.
The Findings
How sexist is the popular Good Girl Gina meme? [Daily Dot]
Source: Jezebel
Women are clearly the problem, right Suzanne Venker?!
"Doesn't know you at all... wakes you up so you don't miss your stop because it's happened to her before."
"You treat her like shit... she walks out."
"Would never date any of you... because she's classier than blowjob jokes."
"Waiting for bus for 15 minutes... doesn't wait until fare box to dig pass out of purse."
"Borrows your pencil... returns it."
"99 cents in change... gives you a dollar back."
This one is pretty sexist, because it implies that the 'standard' woman will stay with an abusive/shitty SO. A Nice Guy TM obviously made that one.
Also, OP, thanks for not using the image from Jezebel for this.
Edited at 2012-11-29 10:18 pm (UTC)
Fuck them. (Also best gif ever, "I'ma take this blanket right here, and ignore you forever."
(Magnificent gif, though!)
100% of them.
Trust me on this.
Edit: Wow! If I bothered to actually -read- the fucking article, it IS the post from ShitRedditSays!
I'm a moron.
Edited at 2012-11-29 11:02 pm (UTC)
Let me introduce you all to Douchebro Dave:
Fly, my pretties! Fly, fly!
"Has tiny penis. Learns how to do good oral."
"Can't carry girlfriend to bed. Works out."
"Can't life his girlfriend for awesome sex positions. Decides to work out."
"Can't fix a car or change the oil himself. Learns how."
"Doesn't earn enough to provide for his family. Looks for a better job."
"Sees a guy who doesn't buy his date a drink. Buys the drink for her."
"Sees his bros playing video games all day. Decides to get a job instead."
"Gets lost. Figures out how to get where he's going himself."
"Feels upset and lost. Mans up & deals with it without complaining."
Etc etc. MACHO MACHO MAN. U'VE GOT TO BE A MACHO MAN
Edited at 2012-11-30 02:28 am (UTC)
(On the other hand, your .gif is adorable.)
Edited at 2012-11-30 12:35 am (UTC)
then i watched the puppy and was alll awwwhahahahahaha.
The friendzone may perhaps be one of the dumbest shits that is proliferated through the internet, especially since any guy I ever heard use that term, is a "nice guy"-type of dudebro-asshole.
Especially the creepy 'doesn't falsely accuse you of rape' one. Yeah I really am sure that the guy who made that isn't 'bitter' about it happening to him, no siree.
Sorry - the whole "false rape" thing really winds me up. Especially the jerkwads who try to claim being accused of rape is somehow worse than rape. Because bad things are only really bad if they're happening to men.
Edited at 2012-11-30 01:23 pm (UTC)
hate men in general
like men in particular