First Meme Post

The First Post

     For my first post, I wanted to go back to a relatively-ancient meme that you could not go one day without seeing on Facebook, the Overly Attached Girlfriend. A lot of my research over the last few years has focused on visual rhetoric regarding the portrayal of gender through social networks and this meme packages my findings through that pretty well. It highlights perfectly how we make snap judgments on an individual, especially a woman, based on pretty basic facial cues and body positioning. Her wide eyes and smile, barring any information regarding personality or context, immediately means "overly-attached" or "psychotic." I look forward to digging deeper into memes similar to this throughout the semester.