Against Memes

Memes suck. They are:

• Boring
• Old-fashioned
• Way too male and way too straight; and, therefore,
• Shaped by the same old power relations as everything else we are encouraged to adore, and
• Stupidly, fatally reductionist.

We need complexity—poetry and fiction and artwork and essays—rather than simplicity.

Memes suck. We should stop pretending that they are important or even especially meaningful.