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The best and worst of #IfMenWerePutInCharge

So this hashtag popped up on Twitter today, a deliberately ironic poke at gender inequality (I asssume). There were a variety of reactions — some funny, some not-so-funny, and some that seemed to have floated in from another dimension.

Some used the hastag — as I think it was intended — as an excuse to post a variety of pictures of the “men are lazy and goofy and basically human-shaped wrecking balls” variety.

https://twitter.com/Exile1Self/status/1381203665827069954

One Tweeter looked to history for an answer:

My favorite tweet of the bunch was, naturally, this one with a cat in it.

This Tweeter might just have licked off too much psychedelic toad venom.

https://twitter.com/based_DCcomics/status/1381329459345817603

But not all Tweeters approached the hashtag with such good humor. A few seemed to have missed the joke entirely:

This guy, who also missed the joke, tried to use the hashtag to promote a eugenic approach to COVID that would leave millions of people dead.

This Tweet from a reactionary snowflake took aim at the shocking — shocking! — misandry of the hashtag.

This guy hates mean hashtags and just wants everyone to get along.

This person, meanwhile, wants us forget the hashtag and just enjoy this brief video of a possum of unknown gender:

That reminds me of this amazing video of two raccoons interrupted during a midnight ramble.

#AnimalsAreTooGoodForUs aren’t they?

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Masse_Mysteria
Masse_Mysteria
3 years ago

@Sheila Crosby
I’ve lately been hearing that a proper corset may not have restricted your life all that much, provided you weren’t tight-lacing.

I can’t vouch for the veracity of this, but Karolina Żebrowska has a Youtube video about it.

Last edited 3 years ago by Masse_Mysteria
Bookworm in hijab
Bookworm in hijab
3 years ago

WWTH,

I can’t stop reading this as “if men were Putin”

me too! ?

Ohlmann
Ohlmann
3 years ago

@wwth : that kind of shirtless putin ?

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Lumipuna
Lumipuna
3 years ago

If men were Putin Charge, they’d be coming soon to East Ukrainian localities not yet under occupation.

Bookworm in hijab
Bookworm in hijab
3 years ago

Ohlmann, YUMMMMMM…..

Surplus to Requirements
Surplus to Requirements
3 years ago

I must confess to not understanding why someone’s reaction to fries that have been ruined by getting them all soggy would be “YUMMMMMM”…

numerobis
numerobis
3 years ago

Ohlmann: for some confusing reason, anglophones don’t transliterate poutine the same way they transliterate Poutine. English is weird.