This Is MY Son / #HimToo

This Is MY Son / #HimToo

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This Is MY Son refers to a post on Twitter in which a mother attempted to paint her son, a star Navy soldier, as a poster boy for the #HimToo movement, a reactionary hashtag to #MeToo spread in the wake of Brett Kavanaugh's Sexual Assault Allegations which attempts to argue that men must be overtly careful in interactions with women lest they be victim of false sexual misconduct allegations. The post was mocked as a copypasta in which people posted variations on the original post with different images. The meme caused the son to create a Twitter account denying his mother's characterization of him.

Origin

On October 6th, 2018 Twitter user @MarlaReynoldsC3 tweeted an image of her son in his Navy uniform, saying:

This is MY son. He graduated #1 in boot camp. He was awarded the USO award. He was #1 in A school. He is a gentleman who respects women. He won’t go on solo dates due to the current climate of false sexual accusations by radical feminists with an axe to grind. I VOTE. #HimToo.

The tweet, shown below, has since been deleted.


BlueStarNavyMom3 @MarlaReynoldsC3 Oct 6 This is MY son. He graduated #1 in boot camp. He was awarded the USO award. He was #1 in A school. He is a gentleman who respects women. He won't go on solo dates due to the current climate of false sexual accusations by radical feminists with an axe to grind. I VOTE. #HimToo 1.7K t318 686

Spread

The tweet began significantly spreading on October 8th, 2018. That day, many tweets parodying it in the form of a copypasta grew popular. For example, Twitter user @stephperry replied to the original tweet with a copypasta and an image of Gritty, gaining over 80 retweets and 500 likes (shown below, left). User @pattymo made the joke with a costume of Jared Leto's joker, gaining over 200 retweets and 2,900 likes (shown below, right).


Spook Scary @stephperry Follow Replying to @MarlaReynoldsC3 This is MY son. He graduated #1 in boot camp. He was awarded the USO award. He was #1 in A school. He is a gentleman who respects women. He won't go on solo dates due to the current climate of false sexual accusations by radical feminists with an axe to grind. I VOTE. #HimTOO Patrick Monahan @pattymo Following This is MY son. He graduated #1 in boot camp. He was awarded the USO award. He was #1 in A school. He is a gentleman who respects women. He won't go on solo dates due to the current climate of false sexual accusations by radical feminists with an axe to grind. I VOTE. #HimTO。 Danaged

Other Twitter users made the joke altering some of the details of the original post. For example, user @MarkDrucker made a joke altering the copypasta to fit Guy Fieri, gaining over 2,300 retweets and 12,000 likes (shown below, left). User @Manda_Like_Wine made the joke altering the copypasta to fit Graham, gaining over 370 retweets and 2,800 likes (shown below, right).


Mike Drucker Follow @MikeDrucker This is MY son. He graduated #1 from the University of Flavortown. He was awarded three banging fajita poppers. He was #1 in flamin' hot crunch. He won't go on solo dates due to the current climate of false accusations of taking the last slice of pizza. I VOTE. #HimToo Even Scarier Low IQ Mancino-. @Manda_like_wine Follow This is MY son. He graduated #1 in his last round of crash testing. He received a high- impact award thanks to his enlarged ribcage. He is a gentleman capable of withstanding hurricane-force winds. He won't go on solo dates because he needs a team to support his head. #HimToo

The following day, the son in the original picture, Pieter Hanson, made a Twitter account with the handle @Thatwasmymom[1] in which he recreated the pose in the original photo but clarified he rejected his mother's characterization of him, writing:

That was my Mom. Sometimes the people we love do things that hurt us without realizing it. Let’s turn this around. I respect and #BelieveWomen . I never have and never will support #HimToo . I’m a proud Navy vet, Cat Dad and Ally. Also, Twitter, your meme game is on point.

The tweet, shown below, gained over 12,000 retweets and 64,000 likes (shown below).


Pieter Hanson @Thatwasmymom Follow That was my Mom. Sometimes the people we love do things that hurt us without realizing it. Let's turn this around. I respect and #BelieveWomen. I never have and never will support #HimToo . I'm a proud Navy vet, Cat Dad and Ally. Also, Twitter, your meme game is on point.

The meme was covered by Washington Post,[2] Daily Dot,[3] and Mashable.[4] Speaking to Washington Post, Hanson stated, “It doesn’t represent me at all. I love my mom to death, but boy . . . I’m still trying to wrap my head around all this.”

Various Examples


David Klion Follow @DavidKlion This is MY son. He is the product of millennia of selective breeding. He is the Kwisatz Haderach and the messiah long prophesied by the Fremen. He won't go on solo dates due to the current climate of false accusations by radical feminists with an ax to grind. I VOTE. #HimToo Grant Root @grokchain Follow This is my son. He cant go on dates because his palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms spaghetti. No Dana, only Zuul Schwartz @DanaSchwartzzz Follow This is MY son. He graduated #1 in Army. He is a gentleman who respects women. He won't go on solo dates due to the current climate of false sexual accusations by radical feminists with an axe to grind. I VOTE. #HimToo Night of the Living Marble @living_marble Follow This is MY son. He singlehandedly runs a small hotel. He's a homeowner. He knows a boy's best friend is his mother. He goes a little mad sometimes. He won't go on solo dates due to the current climate of false accusations by radical anti-shower-stabbing feminists. I VOTE. #HimToo Ashley C. Ford @iSmashFizzle Follow This is MY son. He graduated #1 in boot camp. He is the strongest Avenger. He broke Harlem. I VOTE. #HimTOO Chris @swellpalchris Follow Replying to @MarlaReynoldsC3 This is MY son. He just sits there; afraid to do ANYTHING in this current climate of false allegations #himtoo

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