The Reddit meme Good Guy Greg is a one-note joke: It’s a photo of a man smoking a joint, with words demonstrating why he’s a good guy published on top and below the man’s face. Examples include “Doesn’t drink/Doesn’t lecture others on why they shouldn’t drink” and “Knows you forgot his name/Tells a story where someone says ‘Listen, Greg.'” The female version of Good Guy Greg is Good Girl Gina. The things that Good Girl Gina likes to do are pretty different from Good Guy Greg: “Boyfriend works 2 jobs/Waits until 10pm to make dinner so it’s still fresh,” “Notices you checking her out/smiles and takes it as flattery,” “Is a vegan/cooks you a mean Thanksgiving turkey,” and “Gives you a blowjob/doesn’t expect you to go down on her.”
Reddit user LaTeX_Fetish scraped every Good Girl Gina picture and then categorized them. The vast majority of Good Girl Gina photos demonstrate Gina ignoring her wants and needs for a man—either sexually, through media (she prefers watching her man play video games over watching a movie, she decides not to see the Twilight movie because her man wants to see Skyfall) or through cooking. LaTeX_Fetish’s full report, including a table demonstrating the percentage of different Good Girl Gina posts is here. This is the summary:
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. A Good Girl defies stereotypes, unless they play into your desires, like when she cooks for you. A Good Girl plays your video games and watches your movies, and she’ll bring you food and drinks and drugs, but a Good Girl won’t talk about any of those things, because she is a Good Girl. And a Good Girl keeps quiet and doesn’t rock the boat.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go barf.
Go read the whole thing, please.
(Via The Verge.)
You must be really, really bored, Paul. I know I am.
Hey PC (who doesn’t read these comments): Research “What Does a Good Journalist Do?” then tell us what you learn.
This is the sort of hard hitting, in-depth journalism I’ve come to expect from Paul Constant.
Wow, this blows the Borders story away.
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First off, SRS is my idea of hell. So there is that.
Secondly, the basic premise of the post is incorrect, and more than likely intentionally misleading . GGGina is not the gender equivalent of GGGreg (which is in itself an annoying meme, but I digress). GGGreg is more or less gender-neutral* meme and comments on nice things done by nice people. GGGina is a misogynistic meme meant to specifically comment on things of a sexual, and generally sexually degrading, nature. To compare the two is intentionally setting up a misleading, and I would argue propagandistic, argument.
If you want to make an argument that the GGGina meme is misogynistic, go ahead, although I think that is fairly self-evident.
If you want to make an argument that Reddit is by and large sexist, that argument can be made and is probably a valid argument.
*If you want to make an argument that gender-neutral for Reddit (and most everyone) is male and that is not a good thing, that is a fine argument to make.
However, creating an intentionally misleading argument in order to further a specific agenda is just creating and spreading propaganda.
If one reads further down the comments in that post, one will see advocacy for the kind of thought policing that frightens me, whether it comes from the right or the left. If you have an argument to make, make it in the relevant thread. Making an argument like this, in an isolated corner of Reddit where only those folks inclined to agree with the argument would tread, is the worst kind of bubble-creating circle-jerk. Its the liberal equivalent of listening to Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh.
The intentional misuse of data to support a piece of propaganda makes people less likely to trust real data in support of any argument.
TL;DR: misogynistic meme is misogynistic, therefore all of Reddit is misogynistic
Ugh, reddit circlejerks spilling into my Portland circlejerks. No bueno.
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