# Where Are Her Organs? Where Are Her Organs?, also known as Ouch, Her Back and Have You Seen a Woman Before?, is a Twitter argument used to criticize artists who draw female characters with exaggerated proportions. It gained real traction in September 2019 around a Marvel Medusa illustration, and by late 2019 it fueled a running debate over fan art of Captain Marvel and anime women. ## Origin Catalyst event: on September 7th, 2019, Twitter user @SidneyTucker666 posted an illustration of Marvel's Medusa by artists Nacho Arranz and Fran Duque, and the post cleared roughly 1,100 retweets and 4,800 likes[1]. Replies piled in asking where her organs were and complaining about her back, with one reply from @EatTheRichIero drawing over 460 likes of its own[2]. YouTuber Shoe0nhead screenshotted a batch of those replies in a thread posted September 9th, 2019, which is the moment the specific wording crystallized as a recognized argument people were having rather than one-off sniping[3]. Comments like Where Are Her Organs? and Have You Seen a Woman Before? had been circulating on Twitter since the summer of 2019 against artists drawing exaggerated female figures, and pushback against those comments was already building in parallel[1]. The Medusa thread is treated as the trend's viral point rather than the invention of the phrase. - **Platform:** Twitter - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2019 ## Overview Where Are Her Organs? is a rhetorical complaint aimed at drawings of women whose anatomy, usually tiny waists paired with very large breasts, could not fit a functional set of lungs or intestines[1]. Alongside it, posters use Ouch, Her Back and Have You Seen a Woman Before? as interchangeable barbs, each one treating the drawing as a failed life-drawing exercise rather than a stylistic choice[1]. A typical use shows up in quote tweets or replies to comic and anime fan art, where a single poster lands the line and a thread of supportive replies piles on behind it[2]. The argument carries an internal contradiction that critics seized on fast. Readers pointed out that cartoon men in the same comics have forearms thicker than their heads and nobody asks where their organs are, so the complaint reads less like anatomy critique and more like a complaint about sexualized drawings specifically[3]. That tension is why the line keeps surfacing: half the thread uses it in earnest, and the other half quotes it back to mock the original poster. ## How to Use Posters typically quote tweet a piece of fan art and open with the exact line, often in all caps, sometimes stacked with Ouch, Her Back for emphasis. Counter-posters use the same phrase sarcastically under hyper-stylized male characters to point out the double standard, which is now the common convention when the argument resurfaces. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Where Are Her Organs?? It is a Twitter argument used to criticize drawings of women with exaggerated proportions, usually small waists paired with very large breasts, by claiming no real body could hold those organs[2]. ### Where did Where Are Her Organs? come from? The wording circulated on Twitter in summer 2019 and hit its viral point on September 7th, 2019, in replies to a Medusa fan art posted by @SidneyTucker666[1]. ### What does Where Are Her Organs? mean? It is a rhetorical shorthand saying the drawing is so distorted it could not contain a working human anatomy, often paired with Ouch, Her Back and Have You Seen a Woman Before?[3]. ### How do you use Where Are Her Organs?? Posters typically quote tweet a piece of fan art with the exact phrase, though counter-posters now use it sarcastically under distorted male characters to point out a double standard[5]. ### Is Where Are Her Organs? still popular? After November 2019, when a viral Captain Marvel fan art thread and Shoe0nhead's 1.6-million-view YouTube video spread the debate further, it settled into a recurring Twitter argument rather than a dead trend[6]. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/SidneyTucker666/status/1170335066435833860]() 2. [https://twitter.com/EatTheRichIero/status/1170645631800631302]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/where-are-her-organs]() 4. [https://twitter.com/_Vs_The_World/status/1171082838076252160]() 5. [https://twitter.com/JScottCampbell/status/1174861918210686976]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM4lxn00L3I]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/where-are-her-organs Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library