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Woman Stood Up to Gender Norms By Naming Her Son "Vagina" refers to a series of image macros responding to a satirical news article from the comedic publication Reductress. These memes treat the article as a factual account, joking about the future troubles for the fictional boy named "Vagina".

Origin

On June 23rd, 2017, Reductress published a photograph of a woman holding an infant with the headline "Wow! This Woman Stood Up to Gender Norms By Naming Her Son ‘Vagina'" (shown below).

Spread

Two days later, Reductress tweeted the article and received more than 3,600 likes and 3,200 retweets in less than three years (shown below, left).

The site tweeted the article again on December 29th, 2017. That day, Twitter user @finah retweeted the article and commented "This is child abuse." The @finah tweet has since been deleted as a result of @finah's suspension. However, that day, Instagram user qwerticorn shared the tweet and received more than 34,000 likes in less than two years (shown below, center).

On March 18th, 2019, Redditor NiggaThatKilledTigga shared the image juxtaposed against a picture of Principal Vagina from the American animated comedy series Rick and Morty. Within one year, the meme received more than 7,000 points (97% upvoted) and 165 comments (shown below, left).

Later that year, Redditor kanyeshaw shared the image with a Current Objective: Survive meme. The post received more than 51,000 points (95% upvoted) and 660 comments (shown below, right).

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