MEME REFERENCE
Men Discussing Men Fighting
Use when contrasting calm intellectual discussion with chaotic physical conflict
- What it expresses
- Two people discuss a problem while another group engages in violent confrontation
- Example
- Two teams calmly compare written proposals while their managers trade angry accusations in the next channel; label the contrasting groups.
- When not to use it
- Everyone is participating in the same measured discussion, so the civilized-versus-chaotic split would invent a difference.