Twitter Likes Its Men Trampy, As Revealed By Provocative New Meme

Gather round, children, and let me tell you a story. It involves a type of social media long descended into blissful semi-irrelevancy, and a political movement that is possibly more relevant than ever. I'm talking about the love affair between Tumblr and fourth wave feminism, which started as fringe movement of pretty aesthetics and rightfully angry politics and quickly became so notorious that less sympathetic areas of the internet began to make a bogeyman out of the so-called social justice warrior. 

Despite the pushback, it allowed a significant generational minority to start to understand that yeah, it was pretty weird that a lot of teenage girls weren't allowed to wear tank tops to school, and that nobody should be ostracized for having compromising pictures of them leaked. Most importantly of all, it wasn't fair to call somebody a slut as an insult. Along with this whole shebang arrived a hotbed of petty drama, extreme backlash, and full-on culture wars about whether things like the word "stupid" were a slur, but that's another tale altogether, continued by numerous other platforms (looking to you, Twitter and TikTok). 

Fast forward a decade or so, and sluttiness has become less of a dirty concept. It's kind of ironic, seeing as the concept of slut shaming has steadfastly stuck around in various guises, and doesn't seem to be going anywhere any time soon. However, the descriptor in itself has been reclaimed as a cause for celebration in the right context, and even as a means to turn the tables on the cultural script. This seems to be what's happening with the "sluttiest thing a man can do" meme, with people of all genders celebrating and/or shaking their heads at things that men do which make them feel some type of way. Not all of these are the usual suspects, but some of them are pretty funny. It's often the little things which give you butterflies.