As part of my historiographical research, I am collecting classic TERF memes. Memes are internet propaganda, a term I am using in its neutral sense of images and text designed to affect human psychology. For example, here is a meme that I made a few years ago. It is meant to provoke laughter, yes, but also thought. What is the ‘trans man’ trying to project when she adopts the costume and mein of the ‘monster father’?
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