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Binders full of women

“They brought us whole binders full of women”, in answer to a question about equal pay
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2012·The social era

A debate answer that was a meme before the debate finished.

At a glanceThe facts

Spread in
2012
Began as
A television broadcast
Format
Phrase
Era
The social era
Who or what it shows
Mitt Romney, in the second presidential debate of 2012
What it said
“They brought us whole binders full of women”, in answer to a question about equal pay
Origin
Not an upload originally
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

What this wasThe story

Mitt Romney's answer about hiring women in the second 2012 presidential debate. Parody accounts, image macros and a Tumblr existed within the hour, which was new: the joke cycle finished while the event was still happening.

TimelineIn order

  1. Made

    Romney says it. A parody Twitter account has 30,000 followers before the debate ends.1

  2. Took off

    A Facebook page on the phrase has 274,000 likes.1

  3. Found

    The binders themselves are found and given to the Boston Globe: two of them, holding nearly 200 résumés.1

What people misrememberSet straight

Commonly remembered asHe asked for them.

ActuallyA women’s coalition said it had offered the names to both candidates for governor before the election.1

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast

This began as a television broadcast, not as a video upload.

Where it came fromWhat we know

There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. There is no copy of it here either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is what this page can tell you.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This began as a television broadcast, not as a video upload.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

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SourcesWhat was read

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