Part 3: Meme Alternatives on Contraception / Sex Education / Abortion
In my quest to make Memes less divisive, I have been thinking about the the public discourse on Contraception / Sex Education / Abortion.
I picked this because it is both important and I potentially the most difficult of all such issues.
I got a new insight into just how difficult when I tried to pick a title for this piece, and realized that I don’t really know how to pick a non-divisive title because of the level of fighting to control the vocabulary and framing.
Leaving that aside for the moment, I wanted to make a collection of memes that would
- be brief, fun, quotable
- be non-divisive, non-offense
- be entirely unarguable true
- not introduce extraneous issues or distractions
- encourage understanding of one side of the issue and
- perhaps make it clear which side of the issue I am on.
I started with
I’d rather pay for contraception than abortion
I’d rather pay for abortion than unwanted children
Which seemed pretty good until I realized that it was bringing in a taxation / public spending issue which was not quite central.
Then I came up with
Since abstinence only education consistently fails, our choices are contraception, abortion or unwanted children
Which doesn’t highlight the fact the real sex education reduces pre-marital sex.
Do we get
Abstinence only education reduces Abstinence
Abstinence only education increase premarital sex
Abstinence only education increase abortions
Questions (or should I say pleas for help)
- How would improve the criteria?
- Which of these (if any) resonate with you?
- How can they be improved?
- What other memes (on either side of the issue) have you seen or can you create that meet?
Part 1: What’s Even Better Than Memes
Part 2: Memes That Change Minds
Part 3: Meme Alternatives on Contraception / Sex Education / Abortion
