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Adam Savage on #Gamergate and Harassment of Women Online
Last week I got the amazing opportunity to check out Adam Savage’s secret cave of radness, which is filled to the brim with movie props, costumes, and space helmets. I was tagging along while Indre Viskontas interviewed Adam for Inquiring Minds (full disclosure: Adam and Indre are friends of mine and the producer of Inquiring Minds, Adam Isaak, is my…
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New Video! Calling Out Religious Misogyny without Hypocrisy
Support more videos like this at Patreon! Pseudo-transcript: In Orange County, Florida, public schools, a Christian group was allowed to hand out Bibles and other literature on Freedom of Religion Day, January 16. In response, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, FFRF, has applied for permission to hand out their own pamphlets, which question the truth of the Bible and call…
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Eric Hovind: What’s the Difference Between God & Santa?
Support more videos like this at Patreon! Eric Hovind’s “challenge” I was tipped off about the new charges by PZ Here’s the indictment info Also there’s this Sort-of transcript: Eric Hovind is son to convicted criminal-slash-young earth creationist Kent Hovind, currently serving 10 years in the penitentiary for tax fraud. Kent set a high standard for his family in terms…
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Feminism
Aziz Ansari is a Feminist
Oh, I’m sorry, did you think you could not possibly love Aziz Ansari any more? Did you?? THEN YOU ARE A FOOL. Enjoy his bit on Letterman about how he’s a feminist and everyone else should be, too. “If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you’re a feminist, you have to say yes,…
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The Hidden Cost of “Leaking” Celebrity Nudes: Kim Kardashian
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sort-of-transcript: Another day, another batch of celebrity nudes have been “leaked”, which is a word used to downplay the fact that these were intimate photos and videos that were stolen from women and then posted and shared online. Of course, dude bros on Reddit and 4Chan celebrate these “leaks” and consider the anonymous…
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#GamerGate and Game Journalism’s Ethics Problem
Support more videos like this at http://patreon.com/rebecca Relevant links: Overview of harassment against Zoe Quinn IRC chat logs Duke Nukem PR fail Kotaku on mock reviews EA’s BS A good criticism of Metacritic et al Sorta transcript: You may be familiar with the GAMERGATE phenomenon, which basically goes like this: a female game developer made a game called Depression Quest…
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Rebecca Vs. Hal Lublin in Ready 2 Rumble Boxing!
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to spend a little time with Hal Lublin, one of the stars of two of the most popular podcasts in the English-speaking world: Thrilling Adventure Hour and Welcome to Nightvale. If there’s one thing I knew immediately about Hal, it’s that he needed to be severely punished in an N64 game. You…
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The Science of Identifying Jack the Ripper!
Maybe you heard that researchers claimed (in a Daily Mail exclusive) to have discovered the true identity of Jack the Ripper? Well, I decided to ask Skepchick forensic scientists Amanda and Dr. Rubidium! If you’d like to see our full, uncut discussion, become a patron at Patreon.com/Rebecca! It will be going up there soon.
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