Battered Women's Shelter Memes

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very tall bart @TallBart 10/8/21 Going to the womens shelter to pick up a wife. 10 of them immediately jump up and start rubbing my shoulders & asking how my day was. But then I see the runt of the litter at the back of the room, shyly eating Doritos by the handful. A tear runs down my cheek. "that one" i say 531 3,658 ‚↑ 38

I TOOK MY WIFE TO THE BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER YESTERDAY AND THEY ASKED IF WE WANTED A TOUR I SAID NO THANKS. SHE KNOWS THIS PLACE LIKE THE BACK OF MY HAND. imgflip.com

I WENT TO A BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER ONCE. I COULDN'T FIND A SINGLE DEEP FRYER. imgflip.com

I JUST GOT BACK FROM THE BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER BOY, ARE MY ARMS TIRED quickmeme.com

Me standing outside the battered women's shelter after doing push- ups and shadowboxing ifunny.co

Me outside of the battered women's shelter after the cops try to arrest me for shadow boxing and accidentally hitting a women. mov J ifunny.co

About • Origin • Spread • Examples •

Category: Meme Status: submission Year: 2016 Origin: Imgflip Region: United States

Type: Parody Participatory Media

Tags: battered women's shelter shadowboxing lifting push ups battered womens shelter meme battered woman shelter memes ironic memes irony picking up women abuse

About

Battered Women's Shelter is a place where women who were abused by their spouses typically go for shelter and security. Beginning in mid-2016 and growing over the next several years, referential memes that involve the abused women's shelter started to become more commonplace. These memes, often misogynist in nature, range from doing activities outside and near the women's shelter, to actively sending or picking up their woman from the shelter.

Origin

In June 2016, Imgflip user GotHighMadeAMeme^[1] uploaded one of the first surviving records of a meme involving the shelter, a 10 Guy meme, which at the time used the phrase "abused women's shelter" to play off the earlier setup in the meme (shown below).

I DON'T GET SOCIETY TODAY.I GO TO AN ABUSED ANIMAL SHELTER TO PICK OUT A NEW PET AND I'M A HERO. IGO TO AN ABUSED WOMEN'S SHELTER TO PICK OUT A NEW GIRLFRIEND AND SUDDENLY I'M AN A------. imglip.com

Spread

The meme phrase continued to spread, with examples of it usually involving the OP being directly involved with sending his woman to the shelter or picking up a woman from there. For example, Overly Manly Man example uploaded to Imgflip on November 2019 by the user TrustiGoat^[2], which combined it with a Kitchen punchline (shown below).

WHAT DOES A WOMAN DO WHEN SHE LEAVES THE BATTERED WOMENS' SHELTER? COOK MY DINNER, IF SHE KNOWS WHAT'S GOOD FOR HER. imgflip.com

On TikTok, the Battered Women's Shelter meme began to take off and spread with the addition of shadowboxing and push-ups being added to the equation. TikToks about dudes exercising, shadow boxing and doing push-ups outside of the battered women's shelter at night began to take off, with the trend having over 1.1 million views across the site^[3]. The most popular example of this format was uploaded by the TikToker tobycrowleyfit^[4] on May 12th, 2022, getting over 46,000 likes in one year (shown below).