https://www.buzzfeed.com/hattiesoykan/memes-you-should-send-to-your-feminist-friend-right-now?utm_term=.jdqzMl17e#.yrD7KJz6X
One of the most popular communication current trends is via social Memes, these get shared vasty over different social sites and see a very wide range of audiences. Theres usually take a relatable issues then use humour to make it appeal to the audience and to encourage the audience to share/repost ect increasing the view of the image/showing the image to a wider network.
As meme are a popular trend one theme of a range of memes has been feminist views. This promotes female empowerment and raise awareness round issues women face daily in an inform style which a younger target audience will be receptive too.
The main theme of these is to poke fun at beauty standards and misgynistic views as to empower women and promote feminist ideals which is shown in some of the memes in the article. This type f meme reflect what feminism aims to promotes whilst calling out gender inequality to raise awareness.
An issue with some of this content is that some of the meme in the article pictured above do showcase feminist as just relating to or retable by heterosexual women rather than show a diverse range of different subjects. Also many are offensive or show offensive views towards to men, or make jokes surrounding putting down men ONE SEX CANNOT BE EMPOWER BY PUTTING ANOTHER SEX DOWN, this is not what feminism is and goes against the main principle.
This directly shows where and whats societies view on feminism steam from, this sort of thinking goes against feminism theories yet is reflect as feminist. The repost/sharing of these images with a 'feminist' tag is contributing to the 'men hating, female' only feminist stereotype. This shows an example of what needs changing in the media and online via this project outcome.
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