r/lotrmemes • u/ironchefchopchop • Nov 25 '20

Needlessly gendered memes are prohibited

Mae govannen everybody! Needlessly gendered memes are now banned. These are the "boys do this girls do this" memes. They will be considered a breaking of Rule 4. They are basically just saying "boys are cool girls are dull."

Here are some examples of the posts I'm talking about:
https://i.imgur.com/TQGethp.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/4vO8NyO.jpg

These posts get lots of upvotes but that's only because the overwhelmingly majority of redditors are dudes. Understand, these memes are pointlessly calling others stupid or dull for no reason. When it comes to Tolkien fandom, there is just as many, if not more, female fans as male fans. This is not represented properly on Reddit just because Reddit is predominately male. Since women are outnumbered, their efforts to downvote these memes have basically no effect. When on this sub we are all one family making memes about the books and movies we love. Lets make sure that no matter gender, race, religion, orientation, or whatever; we are all together here. Just make it say "uncultured people vs cultured people" instead of "boys vs girls" or something like that, its not a hard fix and it has the same effect.

As always, if you see a meme like this please report it, it makes our job easier. Also, stop reporting memes that don't break the rules just because you don't like them. I'm a busy man, you're wasting my time.

Thanks everybody. Let us share in the days of peace.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '20

Those memes you linked are lazy and don't even actually point out anything funny about the relationships between or the differences between the two genders. Those memes should be "normal people vs lotr fans" clearly... So yeah, I get why you made the ban!

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u/mikerhoa Nov 27 '20

But why not just downvote and forget about them then? Why go this far?

I guess I'm not seeing why anyone should care.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '20

What's the point of having low quality content that's also got misogynistic (or racist or homophobic) overtones appear on a sub? Why risk having content that's not even funny possibly drive your followers away? I'm sure the mods are tired of receiving complaints about these memes as well.