Irrational Black Woman

     

     Irrational Black Woman is another meme based off the AdviceAnimal series featuring an African American woman wearing a nice business suit. The joke within the text of these memes come from stereotypes of irrational expectations set by African American women in popular films and TV shows, especially  those regarding romance, sex, and interaction with males.

     Know Your Meme, being one of the biggest sources of memes historical information, claims that the original photo is of the Miss Black USA Executive Director of Pageant Relations Karen Lyew, found on the Miss Black USAonline website. On Saturday October 22, 2011, the first image macro was posted on the Team Pervert (explicit) Tumblr blog and featured the caption “Complain about down low brothas / wants to have sex with Anderson Cooper.” On October 25th, threads related to the meme popped up on the Lipstick Alley and Black Hair Media web forums, which led to a discussion over the appropriateness of the joke and whether it promotes negative stereotypes associated with black women. The single topic Tumblr was subsequently created on October 26th. A compilation of derivatives was posted to the Divine African Queens blog the following day. TheMeme Generator page has received a total of 173 submissions as of November 9th, 2011. Derivatives are often posted on Tumblr under the #irrational black woman tag.

     Many people know the common stereotypes associated with black women being domineering girlfriends or spouses, which makes this meme so funny to its viewers. This joke about stereotypical African-American women has been said by many people and comedians many ways and for many years. Many comedians besides this one have poked fun at the typical African-American woman stereotype like Chris Rock, Kevin Hart and Jamie Foxx, as well as in popular films and TV sitcoms.