Salad why you so funny

You've probably run into the now-famous meme of "women laughing alone eating salad" stock photos , as there is strangely no shortage of these images on the internet although women everywhere have continually had to ask themselves if this scenario has literally ever happened IRL.

There's even a Tumblr page dedicated to the trope, as well as a live play. Naturally, this all-too-recognizable image is also perfect for a funny "woman laughing alone eating salad" meme Halloween costume so you can poke some fun at the sheer ridiculousness of stock images and make a statement while you're at it!

Even a professed salad lover like myself is highly skeptical about a meager salad making anyone feel this riotously good. I mean, salads can be delicious and all, but are they funny?

Do they tell jokes? Is this just what women do when left alone with a box of greens? This trope is just another obnoxious-as-heck example of society's sexism that's being reflected back to us in the microcosm of stock images. Thankfully, though, there are people working to change the extreme stereotyping of women that seems to take place in the stock photo world and portray more diversity.

Meaning that maybe stock images designed to depict healthy women will show them doing things other than expressing effervescent joy over bowls of raw veggies.

If you want a feminist, funny, and sarcastic Halloween costume, the "girl laughing alone with salad" meme is your ideal inspo. And while all these costume ideas are literally just women i. L-R Dinora Z. Edith Zimmerman, editor of The Hairpin , a general-interest website aimed at women, published a post featuring 18 stock photos of women in various states of hysterics over bowls filled with iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli, melon and berries, and the occasional cucumber slice.

Zimmerman realized she had seen this before. It was the biggest post in its history and may still be. She was calling attention to the proliferation of a certain kind of image. The volume of similar photos was the crime, not necessarily the photos alone. Good job! Keep scrolling! Next Post ». Nothing worse than a garden salad… 6. The Real Anon March 25, You know why the women are laughing right? Anonymous March 25, Suddenly, I feel like hanging out and eating a salad.

Anonymous March 26, Perhaps it is because all of the salads are naked or at the least undressed? Mystafa March 27, Very suspicious! None of them has actually ate it in the first place! Anonymous March 27, They just ate a donut. Jenni4er April 13, Apparently, salads can whiten and straighten your teeth….