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First of all, the ‘First Of All’ is the feminist meme 2017 deserved
It’s been a long, unfunny year
Twitter is an exceptional place, offering an unparalleled variety of content to users in a ~sometimes~ fair and balanced manner.
When they aren't banning women for speaking out against Hollywood, they're actually pretty good about leveling the playing field, giving a voice to all users. Because it's a written medium and nobody can talk over anyone else, there's genuinely some illusion of fairness.
So when the "First of all" meme started trending, what began as a way to respond to people saying stupid things online, became — in just a few days — the feminist meme 2017 not only needed, but deserved.
Some girls are using the meme to work through shitty things people have said to them
And some are just reminding themselves to not text back
Others are using it to remind guys they weren't interested to begin with
And some are making jokes out of sexist comments they've heard
A few are finding ways to laugh about more serious subjects
While others are just straight up savage
And, of course, some are doing the lord's work
But what all the Tweets have in common is that they're a public reclamation of something — big or little — that was taken from us.
Humor is famously one of the moth therapeutic ways to work through stress, whether that stress is in the form of trauma or breakups, and Twitter is a comic's ideal platform.
So when the two things join together, a lot people get to publicly work through shit they've dealt with, and receiving support for that is priceless.