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Leslie Knope Takes on MRAs

This post contains spoilers for the most recent Parks & Recreation episode, Pie-Mary. Proceed with caution! Parks & Recreation has long been one of my favorite shows, and as we make our way...

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New Video! Does Feminist Ryan Gosling Help Men Be More Feminist?

Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sort of transcript: “Men more open to feminism when it’s paired with a photo of Canadian actor Ryan Gosling: study,” according to newspaper...

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Global Quickies: Taekwondo for Equality, Laughing at Sexists, and Jailing...

UK (from Dan) “Just when we didn’t think she could get any more amazing, Queen Elizabeth II called gay marriage in England “wonderful.”” NORTH KOREA (from Ray) The recent history of sexism in North...

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Your First Mammogram

Why I was afraid to go and why you shouldn’t be. “No deodorant or lotion on the day of your appointment.” said the receptionist from the doctor’s office. “Oh good.” I thought to myself. A potentially...

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A More Realistic Version of the Law & Order: SVU Episode “Intimidation Game”

The long-running TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is known for ripping stories from the headlines (which then are said to not resemble any person in fiction or real life), and so it’s no...

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Saudi Historian: Women Shouldn’t Drive Because They’ll Be Raped

To support more videos like this, go to patreon.com/rebecca! Here’s the sort-of transcript: A Saudi historian has gone on record as saying that women shouldn’t be allowed to drive because if they...

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Top 10 Reasons Why Broad City is the Best Show on TV

Hands down, Broad City is the best comedy show currently airing. I’m serious. I could have written 50 reasons why it is the best thing to happen to television but typing is hard and I really need to...

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Global Quickies: Strip Searches, Racists in the Subway, and Giant Salamanders

TANZANIA “ The abduction of an albino child in Tanzania sparked calls on Tuesday for greater action to enforce a newly-imposed ban on witch doctors to stop the killing of albinos whose body parts are...

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Patricia Arquette’s Awesome Feminist Shout-out at #Oscars2015

Categories: FeminismYou guys: Boyhood star Patricia Arquette just became the winner of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and she concluded her speech by calling for equal pay for women. Here’s how...

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Los Angeles Learn How To Lobby State Officials!

Categories: Events FeminismTags: atheist womenLAWAAGHelllllooooooo godless ladies and gents of Los Angeles! If you are in or near the City of Angels on Tuesday, March 3rd why not come to a free meet-up...

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Man is Treated the Way He Treats Women, Immediately Breaks Down

Here’s another piece of evidence in favor of the hypothesis that men are overly emotional creatures with incredibly thin skins: Jan Rankowski is a self-proclaimed comedian who has spent the past year...

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Bad Chart Thursday: Dove’s #NewspeakBeautiful

I always knew that George Orwell was on to something. Sure, he was a little off on the year when it would all go down–1984 was more the year of the big hair band than Big Brother (not that this wasn’t...

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Global Quickies: Men Showing Support in Skirts, IS Destroys Art, and Terrible...

IRAQ Islamic State militants ransacked Mosul’s central museum, destroying priceless artifacts that are thousands of years old. Mosul’s central library has also been attacked by Isis and 100,000 books...

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Cross-post: Why This DMAB Genderqueer Needs Feminism

Categories: FeminismTags: misogynysexismshiri eisnerThe following post was written by Trav and originally posted at Queereka. CN: TRANSPHOBIA, SEXISM, DEPRESSION, SELF-HARM I wasn’t always a feminist....

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Idiots Filming Anita Sarkeesian Exposé Break Up

Jordan Owen and Davis Aurini are two hilariously inept male supremacists who have been raking in thousands of dollars from their gullible loser brethren ostensibly to film a documentary exposing Anita...

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Hey Los Angeles! #BLKGRRRL Book Fair is This Weekend.

Calling all feminists, artists and all around smart and talented people! There is a very cool, very progressive, very inclusive event happening this weekend in the great city of Los Angeles and if you...

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Fatphobia Isn’t About Health

In the realm of weight loss, one of the phrases I see thrown around most often is “but it’s not healthy to be fat! I’m just concerned for their health!” When I bring up questions of fatphobia and...

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Global Quickies: More Art Destroyed by IS, Vaccines in Pakistan, Gurus, and...

INDIA (From Arturo) “One of the five men sentenced to death for raping a young woman in New Delhi, India in 2012 blamed his victim for her death saying women “should just be silent and allow the...

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Amy Schumer’s Hilarious Take on Sexism: I’m Too Disgusting for LA

Categories: FeminismLast night, Comedy Central’s fundraising program Night of Too Many Stars aired, and one of my favorite bits was the comedian Amy Schumer, who was hilarious while detailing the...

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University Violates Rape Victim’s Medical Privacy – Legally

Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca SORTA TRANSCRIPT: There’s been a lot of talk lately about how college campuses in the US deal with rape reports, and a lot of criticism over some...

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