Feminism
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Lawrence Krauss, Jeffrey Epstein, and Firing Your Heroes into the Sun
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is back in the news, because after years of avoiding any real punishment for literally running a worldwide underage sex trafficking ring, he’s finally been arrested and this time he may actually go to prison…
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Smash the Patriarchy – A Painting Nine Years in the Making
This was originally posted on my Patreon. Please consider pledging $1 to me there to help me keep making art. Or, if you are a billionaire, please pledge approximately 1 million dollars. I appreciate the support. Below, is a big 3 foot by 4 foot acrylic on canvas painting that I started in 2010. I finished it yesterday. Originally, this…
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Quickies: World Cup Chants and Refusing to Play a Stereotype in Bond
Crowd in Stadium Starts Chanting “Equal Pay” After U.S. Women’s Team Wins World Cup, by Daniel Politi at Slate: After winning the World Cup for the fourth freaking time, US women’s soccer players are still having to demand equal pay. But at least the crowd is getting in on the demands this time around. As if the women who work…
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Quickies: What About the Men? Edition
Deeper and Down: Verbal Hygiene for Men, by DEBUK at Language: A Feminist Guide: An interesting response to “what about the men” in relation to language policing, with a focus on patriarchal beliefs about deep voices and masculinity. DNA Testing Means Forced Fatherhood as States Limit Abortion, by Heather Timmons and Annalisa Merelli at Quartz: A look at the inevitable…
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Natural Birth Control Options (for People Who Want to Die)
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: I talk a lot about abortion on this channel because it lies right at the intersection of all the things I feel most strongly about: science, healthcare, pseudoscience, religion, and women’s rights. One point I try to mention whenever…
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Bad Chart Thursday: “Anatomy” Lesson for Feminists
Complete, often willful, ignorance of biology is characteristic of the anti-choice forced birth movement, perhaps even more characteristic than religious faith. Yet this ignorance is equally fanciful, imagining fully formed babies inside women (often inside our stomachs, apparently), rape never leading to pregnancy because “the female body has ways to shut the whole thing down,” embryos and fetuses magically feeling…
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The Stigma Against Women who Report Sexual Harassment (and Why I’ll Never Have a Normal Job Again)
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Getting sexually harassed sucks, but what sucks even more is that that’s only the start of a sucky journey on the suck train to Suck City. This is something many women already understand, because we’ve been through it and…
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Why Naomi Wolf Needs to Go Away Forever
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Naomi Wolf is back with a brand new book, and you know what that means! Actually, maybe you don’t — I’m not sure I’ve ever even talked about Naomi Wolf, since it has blessedly been seven years since her…
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