“She did something wrong to me, what should I do?”
“Of course you choose to forgive her!”
Green Hat
The term “green hat” seems to have been around for a long time.
Some say in the Spring and Autumn period,
family members of people who made a living from prostitution had to wrap their heads in green cloth,
to distinguish noble from lowly.
There’s also a funnier saying that
in ancient times there was a married lady who had an affair,
every morning when her husband went out,
she’d put a green hat on him,
as an obvious signal.
In any case,
no matter what,
this somewhat insulting term has been passed down.
But a recent meme has weakened the insulting quality of this term…
Of course we choose to forgive her
The origins of this short phrase are not unified,
some say it was classmate Bu,
some say classmate Bai…
But the fact is that recent meme images have indeed pushed its popularity along:
Later the Forgiveness Hat series of stickers gradually developed:
Someone even made a Forgiveness Hat game…
green.ssyar.com
Of course,
once this meme got hot there were corresponding discussions:
Zhihu: Is the “of course we forgive her” sticker series discriminatory against women?
Zhihu: Is the “of course we forgive her” sticker series discriminatory against men?
…
But this sticker pack is really fun,
every time one of us writes a bug,
or adds another requirement,
we immediately think of the forgiveness hat…
Saint Patrick’s Day
Ireland has a holiday called Saint Patrick’s Day,
roughly about how a long long time ago,
a remarkable person came to Ireland
and spread Christianity to inspire everyone…
So on that day,
everyone wears clothes, socks, hats in the color of the Irish flag (green),
gathers together,
drinks…
Just like Chinese people,
no matter what holiday it is, it turns into Valentine’s Day.
Many foreign holidays
ultimately turn into drinking holidays…
So what do we do about that?
Of course we choose to forgive her~