Women Logic

About

Women Logic (also known as "Female Logic") is a term primarily used by men to describe a range of behaviors and thought processes that would be seen as distinctly feminine. In realms of popular culture, such concept of woman's logic has been employed as a comedy trope to explain various differences between men and women and sometimes for misogynistic humor. On the web, the trope has been adapted into a variety of image macros and rage comics since early 2011.

Origin

The concept of women's logic as having a separate value system unfathomable by men has been explored through romance comedy films, TV shows like Seinfeld (shown below) and many stand up comedians as early as since the 1990s.

In the news media, "woman's logic" and "female logic" have been used in a number of editorial columns and articles, with the earliest known example found in the introductory paragraph of a sports column published in The Independent^[2] on December 12th, 1999. In the early 2000s, a list-style copypasta of common English idioms and phrases translated accordingly to the female logic (shown below) began to spread across several discussion forums and personal blogs.^[1]

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Spread

The term "woman's logic" continued to appear in discussion threads about relationships and gender differences on various forums, including on Airline Crew forum^[17] in December 2004, SoSuave forum^[3] in May 2006 and the Bungie forum^[4] in September 2009 among elsewhere. The first Urban Dictionary entry for the term "female logic"^[6] was submitted on March 5th, 2008, which is defined as:

An oxymoron of the greatest magnitude. Male logic (or just plain logic) follows a direct path, clearly tying the consequences of action to the actor. Female logic doesn't follow a direct path. Female logic always contains a patsie, something to blame her actions on just in case something goes wrong. This is why whenever a girl screws up, it's never her fault – she's used female logic to cover her ass.

Another Urban Dictionary definition for "Women Logic"^[7] submitted on December 24th, 2011 defines it in a similar tone:

The un-logical decision, that eaither is a contridiction to the original decision or dosent make sense.

The earliest known Reddit post related to the keyword "Women Logic" was submitted by user theKalash on September 17th, 2011, which featured a picture of Hillary Clinton with the quote "Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat." Four days later on September 21st, the first known instance of rage comic illustrating the concept (shown below) was submitted to the /r/f7u12 subreddit by lockster.

Not surprisingly, women's logic as a discussion topic has been most prevalent on male-centric communities like 4chan^{[9][10][11][12]} and Reddit^[13] as well as internet humor sites like FunnyJunk^[8] and The Chive^[15], where hundreds of rage comics and image macros remain in active circulation as of June 2012. In addition, similar iterations based on the trope can be found on Tumblr^[14] under the tag #women logic.

Notable Examples

Notable Derivative: X Logic

The term "logic" has gained common usage in general for mocking the behavior, acts or thought processes of other subjects, varying between videogames, animals, objects, etc. Images of these can often be found on Reddit and have also spawned numerous Advice Animal style image macros on Quickmeme. Popular subjects include Men's Logic^[20], Dog Logic^{[21] [22]} Cat Logic^[23] and Grand Theft Auto Logic ^[19].

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