Skepchick Quickies 12.6

• Anita Sarkeesian at TEDxWomen – Anita talks about the harassment and threats she received in response to criticizing sexism in gaming. The video was put up on Tuesday and, you guessed it, the comments are already turned off due to harassment. (Full transcript at Feminist Frequency.)
• Wonder Women! The untold story of American superheroines – From Rosaire.
• Skepticism! The new miracle life cure – From Gemma.
• Evil Mr. Vaccine – In case you haven’t seen this Married to the Sea comic yet, from Ryan.

8 Comments

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   criticaldragon1177  /  December 6, 2012, 1:22 pm Log in to Reply

   Amanda,

   Oh no! The Pied Piper vaccine will kidnap our children! Evil! :)

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   Wilson  /  December 6, 2012, 3:20 pm Log in to Reply

   That Married To The Sea was my desktop background about 10 seconds after I first saw it.

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   Displaced Northerner  /  December 6, 2012, 6:29 pm Log in to Reply

   Love the super heroines documentary trailer. Can’t wait to watch it. Also, anything with Gloria Steinem is an immediate win for me.

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     criticaldragon1177  /  December 6, 2012, 7:56 pm Log in to Reply

     Displaced Northerner,

     I actually learned a lot about Wonder Woman, just from that trailer.

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   David Parnell  /  December 6, 2012, 10:55 pm Log in to Reply

   That was a great Ted talk

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   ombak  /  December 7, 2012, 2:58 am Log in to Reply

   Anita Sarkeesian was named a gamer of the year for social change by Kotaku today. http://kotaku.com/gamers-of-the-year/

   So far comments are ok, but the article’s recent. Most importantly, naming her is just the right choice on any such list this year I think.

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     the owl  /  December 7, 2012, 8:30 am Log in to Reply

     Great news and – GO ANITA!!! I can’t help rooting for her. YEAH!!!

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   Rei Malebario  /  December 9, 2012, 4:40 am Log in to Reply

   Anita Sarkeesian’s pretty dead cool. People batter her with a barrage of horribleness and she just keeps standing tall and being reasonable at them.