RIP Anne Nicol Gaylor, Badass Feminist and Atheist
Donate to the Women’s Medical Fund here. Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca. Sorta transcript: On Monday, the world lost an amazing woman: Anne Nicol Gaylor, who co-founded the...
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Yes, Bristol Palin is a Hypocrite. No, You Shouldn’t Slut-Shame Her.
Bristol Palin announced today that she’s pregnant with her second child, a month after canceling her wedding to Marine Dakota Meyer. Palin, who has earned a sizable sum of money as an “abstinence...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Marriage Equality Around the World, Transgender Rights in...
WORLD Since we’re celebrating yesterday’s good, here’s a very nice video of how marriage equality has been gaining ground around the world in the past 15 years. WORLD “A volley of terror attacks has...
View ArticleStan Lee: Spider-Man Should Be White
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Stan Lee is perhaps best known for starting Marvel Comics and turning it into the powerhouse it is today, and if not for that...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Permission for Pregnancy, Street Harassment, and Police...
LATIN AMERICA (From Mary) “As an increasing number of women enter the workforce in Latin America — more than 70 million in the last two decades — they are beginning to demand equal treatment in the...
View ArticleFeminism Needs Women’s Sports
How much fun is sports twitter? I was newly reminded last night during the breathtaking opening minutes of the USA vs. Japan World Cup, when my TL was a sea of caps lock and gif dexterity reacting to...
View ArticleCan We Believe Women Now?
If you’ll recall, last year there was a horrible incident in which Rolling Stone botched a piece about a gang rape at UVA. They issued a retraction after it came out that details in the story were...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Naturopath Charged, Flags for Straights, and Road-blocks for...
AUSTRALIA (From Michael) A naturopath and the mother of an 8-month-old baby are being charged with reckless grievous bodily harm for stopping conventional treatment for the baby’s eczema. The infant...
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Everything to Everyone
As many of you might have noticed, last week was Convergence, the annual sci-fi and fantasy convention at which the Skepchicks run their own science/skepticism track. As per usual it was oodles of fun,...
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Crosspost: So What If I Wasn’t Born This Way
Categories: Activism FeminismTags: homophobiaLGBTqueerQueerekatransgendertransphobiaThe “born this way” story of queer identity is one most people in modern developed countries know well. It is applied...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Veil bans, the Queen’s Doctor Wants More Homeopathy, and...
CHAD “Chadian police have said anyone wearing a full-face veil will be arrested, a day after a Boko Haram suicide bombing – carried out by an attacker disguised as a women wearing one – left 15 dead.”...
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Taylor Swift Proves Once Again: #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen
Nominees for the annual MTV Video Music Awards were announced on Apple Music’s Beats 1 Radio today, and noticeably missing from the “Video of the Year” category was Nicki Minaj’s feminist-as-fuck...
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Five Reasons ‘Magic Mike XXL’ Is a Feminist Film
I saw Magic Mike XXL over the weekend knowing absolutely nothing about the film going in except that both Mallory Ortberg and Alex endorsed it (which would be enough for me to do pretty much anything,...
View ArticleSummer Jam: ‘Fat Girls’ by Briki fa President ft. Ninene
‘Fat Girls’ by Briki fa President ft. Ninene has a sick beat, an inclusive message (“100 lbs, 200 lbs, 300 lbs, 400lbs… if you a fat girl, then hold it down…”), body positivity… Will it get all the...
View ArticleMore Women Regret Having Kids Than Aborting Them
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: A new study published in PLOS ONE has found that 99% of women who have had abortions report that in retrospect, the abortion was...
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Men Who Harass Female Gamers Are Losers (But Maybe Not Literally)
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: As a woman on the Internet with opinions who has been the target of harassment online for the past 5 years or so, I’ve had ample...
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Planned Parenthood is Not Selling Baby Parts, You Fucking Idiots
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca Sorta transcript: Planned Parenthood is in the news a lot these days thanks to a maliciously edited video making it look like they SELL BABY PARTS....
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Ex-wife Said Donald Trump Raped Her, but Not “in a Criminal Sense”
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca Sorta transcript: Donald Trump, the GOP front-runner for president . . . I’m sorry, that should be the only part of this video that’s important....
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Let’s Talk About Gender Baby*
There’s been an uptick in discussions about gender theory in the atheoskeptosphere lately, and I’ve noticed a not insignificant number of people throwing around ideas about gender theory in ways that...
View ArticleDo Anti-abortion Activists Even Know How Babies Are Made?
Apparently my video about how Planned Parenthood is obviously not selling baby parts has gone viral amongst horrified anti-abortion proponents, which has led them to flood my inbox and my Twitter feed...
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