About
Feminist Nazi is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of Layla Joyce Subritzky from Big Brother Australia’s 2012 season. The captions typically depict a naive approach to stereotypical feminist ideas, in a similar manner to College Liberal.
Origin
Prior to the image’s use in the Feminist Nazi series, the photo of Layla Subritzky shown looking upwards with her mouth open was used for a MemeGenerator[5] titled “Big Brother Layla” and included on a handful of Facebook pages for Big Brother memes.[6][7]
Precursor
“Feminist Nazi” refers to the term “Feminazi,” which was first printed in radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s 1992 book The Way Things Ought to Be[1] and attributed to Tom Hazlett, a professor at the Cato Institute. In the book, Limbaugh notes that a Feminazi is much different than a feminist because, to a feminazi, " the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur."[2] Limbaugh has been quoted using the term to refer to several women’s groups including the National Center for Women and Policing and the Feminist Majority Foundation[4], and high-profile women including Gloria Steinem, Susan Sarandon, Christine Lahti and Camryn Manheim.[3]
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External References
[1] Amazon – Rush Limbaugh | The Way Things Ought to Be
[3] Google Books – The Most Dangerous Man in America: Rush Limbaugh’s Assault on Reason
[4] Media Matters – Limbaugh defended his use of term “feminazi” as “right” and “accurate”
[5] Memegenerator – Big Brother Layla
[6] Big Brother 2012 – Big Brother Australia 2012 Memes on Facebook
[7] Facebook – Big Brother Memes