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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^[1] 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 ^[2] 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.^[3] 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 ^[4] 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 ^[5] 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^[6] 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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