Hey folks! I have a need for a very particular type of meme. I work at a large company that has their own social media, kinda like Facebook with the pro/con of no blocking, where a bunch of religious boomers post stuff with the caveat that the content can’t be political. I had an incident on this social media a while back where just stating I was an anarchist got me a talking to by my manager. So now I want to stir the pot and confront these boomers with the existence of trans people. I need work-friendly, politically-agnostic, trans-positive, boomer-style memes to achieve this goal. The more memes I get, the more daily posts I can make. I want these people to mald, and maybe get them the talking to from their manager that they deserve.
By politically agnostic and trans positive, I mean that it just treats trans identities as a fact of life. Work friendly and boomer style are needed to fit posting expectations.
I fully expect to get some kind of comment from my manager, and I’m going to ask him to explain to me what the problem is
I guess what I wonder is how are you going to have a meme that takes trans identity as a fact of life without making some reference to trans people (which will be perceived as political)?
I guess you could try to find examples of memes in which trans women are silently accepted as women, but tbh cis people are so clueless about who is or isn’t trans that those memes may or may not incite any awareness or discussion of trans people.
Like, if you posted a pic of Buck Angel referring to him as a dude, probably your colleagues would just assume he’s a cis man - they’re not likely to recognize him, or know that he’s trans. Even Euphoria starlet Hunter Schafer being referred to as a woman in a meme probably wouldn’t “rustle the jimmies”, and she’s literally famous for being a trans actress playing a trans character.
I think the meme I shared above is pretty perfect for your purposes - it is seemingly innocuous and doesn’t directly mention anything political, and your manager will be forced to have to spell out what is wrong with it, etc.
The problem with the meme is that there are un-cropped versions of the meme that say “transphobia” underneath it. So if your manager is smart they could point to the uncropped meme and say you knew you were instigating political discussion, etc. (which is also true, and which they will already be on the look-out for since they’ve already given you a talking-to).