NotAllMen
The hashtag #NotAllMen is a feminist Internet meme. A shortening of the phrase "not all men are like that", sometimes abbreviated "NAMALT", the meme is a satire of men's responses to discussions of sexual assault, the gender pay gap, and other feminist issues where the phrase "not all men" is used to deflect attention away from these topics. Origin and usage. The hashtag #NotAllMen began as a catchphrase among men's rights activists (MRAs) used in response to discussions which they saw as portraying all men as misogynists or sexual abusers. The phrase "not all men are like  that" has been in use online since the mid-2000s as a general defense of men. Jess Zimmerman writes that before 2013, "not all men" was absent from discussions of popular derailment tactics used in response to feminist discourse; in its place were phrases such as what about the men?' and 'patriarchy hurts men too'—pleas for inclusion, not for exemption". The phrase later came to be used mainly as a satire of defensive reactions by men. McKinney writes that the phrase "has been reappropriated by feminists and turned into a meme meant to parody its pervasiveness and bad faith." The phrase  went viral in 2013 with a satirical tweet by Shafiqah Hudson: In 2014, a Tumblr page featured images in which a speech bubble with the phrase "not all men" was added to the shark from "Jaws", the chestburster from "Alien", and several other movie scenes; on Twitter, the catchphrase was added to an image of the Kool-Aid man crashing through a wall. The same year, artist Matt Lubchansky created a webcomic with the character "Not-All-Man", in which the "defender of the defended" and "voice for the voiceful" breaks through a glass window to interrupt a pink-haired  woman complaining about men. The comic was retweeted and reblogged "tens of thousands of times" according to Zimmerman, and shared by celebrities including Wil Wheaton, Paul F. Tompkins, Matt Fraction, and John Scalzi. Other <nowiki>#NotAllMen</nowiki>-related memes include references to Aquaman, "Adventure Time", and "". 2014 Isla Vista killings. <nowiki>#</nowiki>NotAllMen was already a Twitter hashtag created by the Twitter user Sassycrass before the 2014 Isla Vista killings, but it gained additional traction after the event, because of the hatred against women expressed by the murderer, Elliot Rodger (although only two of the six casualties were women). In response  to the hashtag <nowiki>#NotAllMen</nowiki>, an anonymous Twitter user created the hashtag #YesAllWomen, to express that all women are affected by sexism and misogyny, even though not all men are sexist. This newly created hashtag quickly became used by women throughout social media to share their experiences of sexual discrimination and attacks. Following the killing spree, the attacker's Internet activity was described as misogynistic, and hatred of women was cited as a factor in the killing spree. In the wake of the killings, some Twitter users pointed out the fact that "not all men" are like this, or  would commit such crimes. Bengaluru incident. After reports of a mass molestation occurring at India's Bengaluru New Year's Eve celebration, <nowiki>#NotAllMen</nowiki> began trending on Twitter. This drew an angry reaction from women, with many Indian feminists and women strongly criticizing the hashtag while responding with their own hashtag #YesAllWomen.