I win an internetz

[helblonde]

I have awarded myself an internetz today! I posted a comment on FB and got an "I feel sorry for you if that's the first thing you thought", which is the internet argument equivalent of "Shut Up" and " Damn it! I don't want you to be right, but I can't admit it." And let me tell you, I do feel simply terrible for using all this analytical thinking

Comments

[klwilliams]

Yup. You won.

[evil_macaroni]

Seems like a reasonable objection. Some people just don't think!

[ex_hrj]

The poster created an ambiguous message in the conflict between the verbal and visual implications. The verbal element, as you note, creates a patrocentric world in which the women in a child's life don't count in the proposed evaluation. But the visual element frames the comparison as "2 dads vs. no parents" (which presumably was the creator's intended framing). I suspect that a viewer's reaction is going to vary depending on whether their brain processes the visual or verbal as the defining framing.

However, even assuming a neutral intent on the part of the creator, there's still the problem that they were oblivious to the way the verbal element excluded the possibility of female parents of any configuration.

(I love deconstructing internet memes. Somewhere I have an extended essay written in response to a friend asking "why do people think this kitten-rescuing meme is racist?")

[razor_dancer]

I had the same response but wasn't energetic enough to contest it. Huzzah for you!