The 344th Slut: A French Feminist Fights for Equality
It’s a longstanding feminist complaint: men can do anything from yardwork to club sports with their torsos exposed, but when a woman appears topless in public it’s considered illegal and indecent. What...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Fake Mummies, Abortions in Latin America, and Alt Med
INDIA “A group of Islamists who cut off a teacher’s hand in revenge for “blasphemy” against the Prophet Mohamed have been jailed in India.” EGYPT/UK Scientists at University of Manchester have exposed...
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Girls and Boys with Science Toys
I’ve just come back from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. I was wowed and stunned by the amazing projects and smart young men and women from all over the world doing science and...
View ArticleWhy Last Night’s Game of Thrones Was The Worst
Spoiler warning! I’m going to talk about what happened in last night’s Game of Thrones episode (season 5, episode 6: Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken) and what happens throughout the entirety of George R.R....
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Diploma Mills, High Heels, and Iron Fish
IRELAND “The same-sex marriage referendum will be comfortably passed, based on early tallies from across the country.” FRANCE “The Cannes Film Festival is facing an angry backlash after it was accused...
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Siouxsie Wiles Talks LEGO and Gender at TEDx!
Categories: FeminismOfficial Friend of Skepchick and talented biologist Siouxsie Wiles recently gave an excellent talk at TEDx in Auckland, New Zealand, in which she gives an overview of what has...
View ArticleChristian Hypocrisy and the Response to Josh Duggar
The Josh Duggar scandal has been covered by multiple media outlets. Most people have been quick to point out the hypocrisy of Duggar, who served as the executive director of an organization that...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Ancient Indian Spaceships, Fossils in Creationist’s...
NIGERIA In one of his last acts as president, Goodluck Jonathan signs a law that bans FGM and prohibits men from abandoning their wives or children without economic support. UK Rabbis in an orthodox...
View ArticleMan Defends Man, Fails #GirlsWithToys
A few weeks back, the hashtag #girlswithtoys was trending thanks to female scientists responding to astronomer Shri Kulkarni, who gave an interview in which he labeled astronomers as “boys with toys.”...
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Hey Los Angeles Atheists and Agnostics! Hangout with me on Tuesday!
Hey there friends of the west coast is the best coast variety! I am here to tell you that I am hosting another meetup for the Los Angeles Women’s Atheist and Agnostic Group! Yeah, it’s got “women” in...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Dyphteria Makes a Comeback in Spain, Mozambique Legalizes...
SPAIN “A six-year-old child who lives in the Catalan city of Olot (Girona) has been admitted to hospital with the first recorded case of diphtheria in Spain since 1986.” Despite free immunization...
View ArticleDr. Ruth Thinks Men are Monsters
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Dr. Ruth is the 87-year old sex columnist who has been dispensing mostly common sense and scientifically accurate advice to people for the past...
View ArticleNobel Laureate Wishes Girls Would Stop Crying/Falling in Love with Him
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Nobel Laureate and official knight of the British realm Sir Tim Hunt is in the news for telling a bunch of female scientists in...
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Is Twitter Finally Dealing With its Harassment Problem?
“FREE SPEECH!” “YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO MY OPINIONS!” “I HAVE A RIGHT TO CALL YOU NAMES AND SEND YOU OFFENSIVE PHOTOSHOPPED IMAGES!” “ I AM JUST JOKING EVERY TIME I THREATEN TO RAPE AND OR KILL YOU AND...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Religion in Cuba, Child-bride’s Murder Charges Dropped, and...
NIGERIA “A court in northern Nigeria has dropped charges against a 14-year-old girl accused of using rat poison to kill her husband, aged 35.” SAUDI ARABIA “A court in Saudi Arabia has upheld the...
View ArticleTo Catch The Man Attached To The Dick
After Amy Schumer’s fantastic acceptance speech at the Glamour Awards last week, the internet has basically been on fire with ‘catch a dick’ love. One of these was Reina Gattuso’s article pointing out...
View ArticleOne-Star Reviews for The Handmaid’s Tale
This year’s SkepchickCON at CONvergence is dystopia themed, so in order to get ready for all my panels I’ve been reading and rereading dystopian classics. The Handmaid’s Tale, the speculative fiction...
View ArticleGame of Thrones Confirms: Sansa is the Perpetual Victim
SPOILER WARNING! This is a follow-up to my previous post on the subject, and will also include spoilers for both the Song of Ice and Fire books and the show Game of Thrones. Previously, I wrote that I...
View ArticleGuest Post: Why it’s okay to identify as a different gender but not as a...
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post was written by Ginny Brown on the differences between gender and race identification and the recent uproar about Rachel Dolezal. She also has many links to the views...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Marriage Equality in Mexico, Purification Rituals for Rape...
MEXICO With little fanfare, Mexican Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage. “The ruling does not automatically strike down the state marriage laws. But it allows gay couples who are denied marriage...
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