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PaperclipPerfector  2d ago (text post)   1892 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 23, 2026

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Obviously the whole "Amelia" meme is very culture war-loaded, but this jocular rundown of the whole thing (containing 100+ memes) made me laugh so much that it feels more appropriate for this thread. (It caught my attention because Scott liked it.)

So the thing is, Amelia isn't real.

Not only is she not literally real, she isn't even figuratively real. There is no attractive sexually available 18-29 year-old alt girl willing to take direct action to fix the demographic crisis with you. She doesn't exist. This is the most perfidious lie of all.

I still think this matters.

I understand the point you're making. At the same time, using an idealised female character as an abstract personification of your nation/culture/value system is not a new thing. Columbia, Athena, Aisling, to name but three examples of the proud lineage of which Amelia is a member.

In this case surely Britannia would be the canonical example?

As an interesting aside, both the US (Uncle Sam) and the UK (John Bull) have male personifications as well as the female ones, which most countries don't.

Also, can Americans on this board comment on the relative visibility of Columbia and Lady Liberty as female personifications of the US - the America that is presented to the rest of the world uses Lady Liberty a lot more, to the point that the Columbia who appears onscreen in the opening credits of a Columbia Pictures movie looks more like Lady Liberty than traditional portrayals of Columbia.

I noted also at Communion this morning that the Church is (rhetorically) described as Jesus' bride, which strikes me as a weird example of the same thing.

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