On the Hermeneutics of Twitter Humor

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At 11:19 am Jesse Singal wrote the following tweet:

Do I want ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ wrapping paper? WOW. Really let clerk at toy store have it. Think she “got it” after she stopped crying, though

— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) June 11, 2016

At 11:44 am he wrote this tweet:

Oh my god look at my feed from people not parsing this as a joke. END TWITTER https://t.co/0nt11HmVMp

— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) June 11, 2016

Your assignment: please write an essay of no more than 10 double-spaced tweets examining what this means for digital communication and the future of global civic society, with a special emphasis on the intersectionality of gendernormativity, power relations in capitalist transactions, and the implications of the 140-character limit on feminist ontology. You may use any form of splaining you wish.