Lisa Simpson, as a television stereotype for feminist, has had her likeness made into a meme that I am now mocking as it mocks the Xeno-feminist narrative. I think it has a conceptual layering here; in Trap 0 x 0D memes are brought up explicitly, but not in our colloquial sense of silly photo and text fads, but in with the cultural information definition. This is now the 3rd time I can remember the latter definition coming up, and for whatever reason each event had an unexpected impact on me. XF specifically confused me immensely the first time I read it when taken as the whole manifesto, but I find myself in agreement with each section. In tandem with Glitch Feminism, questions are raised about the role of identity and otherness within the internet reality. Calling for societal change through embracing alien/other/glitch and exploiting technology is radical as a thought, and could through memes they be spread further and more accessible in clarity of thought? I think XF is calling for this, or at least using communication methods available only through the internet, and I wish the medium of web pages were more explorative of this in both XF and Glitch Feminism.
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