Global Quickies: Hate Crimes, Mansplaining in Parliament, and Blood Donations...
IRAN “The captain of an Iranian women’s football team is to miss a forthcoming Asian championships because her husband would not allow her to renew her passport.” UGANDA “A group of five female...
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Viola Davis Makes #Emmys History
Until tonight, a woman of color had never won an Emmy for Best Actress in a Drama. It’s hard to believe in 2015 (unless you consider that the rest of the awards shows also have a glaring race problem),...
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EUROPE A strange survey covering five west European countries finds that 67% of Europeans think women don’t have what it takes to become top-tier scientists. But what exactly were they asking and how?...
View ArticleIt Is Completely Unsurprising That Women Avoid Promotions at Work
A group of women researchers at Harvard recently released the results of a study in PNAS with the title “Compared to men, women view professional advancement as equally attainable, but less desirable.”...
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Bad Chart Thursday: More Misleading Charts from Americans United for Life
By now, you’ve likely heard about the embarrassingly bad abortion chart Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) tried to use as a “gotcha” at the congressional Planned Parenthood hearing last Tuesday. If you...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: UN Rants, Iranian Men for Equality, and Jailed for an Abortion
ZIMBABWE “Robert Mugabe has used a speech at the UN General Assembly to rant against “new rights” for gay people.” INDIA “A 50-year-old Muslim man in a village in northern India was killed in a mob...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: The Name Calling Pope, A Terrible Campaing, and a Second...
TANZANIA “Some witchdoctors in Tanzania say that potions and charms made from albino body parts are guaranteed to bring success. This has led businessmen, politicians and others to pay criminals to...
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How Feminists Can Do More to Fight Toxic Masculinity
@AbsurdistWords had some powerful things to say on Twitter on Thursday about toxic masculinity and the ways we rob men of healthy tools for processing and expressing emotion. (I highly encourage...
View ArticleThe NFL and the Pinkification of Breast Cancer
Are you aware that breast cancer is a thing? If not, then it’s possible that you haven’t seen any NFL games this month (or you might live under a rock?). October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which...
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Prominent Astronomer Named in Sexual Harassment Case, and We’re Not Gunna...
Sometime on Friday the news broke: famous astronomer and discoverer of exoplanets Geoff Marcy has been accused of sexually harassing female students for years. (See UPDATE below for how you can help!)...
View ArticleMen, Women Do Not Run For You
I’ve been regularly doing long distance running for a couple years now and many of my friends are also runners. Running on a regular basis means spending hours a week outside where I am often crossing...
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Strong Women Characters and GeekGirlCon
The first person to walk up to my table was Anita Sarkeesian. She looked stunningly beautiful. Her long dark hair had thick strips of bright red dyed in it. She was about my height and wore dark...
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Bad Chart Thursday: Egalitarianism vs. Feminism
Did you know that egalitarianism and feminism are mutually exclusive? I had no idea until I started encountering people, online and off, who insist that they are not feminists but are egalitarians. The...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Illegal Selfies, Blasphemy Laws, and Space Makeup
PAKISTAN “Pakistan’s supreme court has called on the country’s politicians to ensure that hundreds of people facing imprisonment and even execution under controversial blasphemy laws have not been...
View ArticleWomen in Science 50th Edition!
Today marks an incredible moment in the science and art community that has been blooming over on Mad Art Lab. It also is proof that there are a whole heck of a lot of women in science that you may not...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Forced Pregnancy Tests, Same-sex Adoptions in Colombia, and...
CANADA “Canada’s new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, took office on 4 November — and as one of his first acts, created the post of Minister of Science.” CANADA “Justin Trudeau, Canada’s newly elected...
View ArticleBeer, Queer? Thoughts On Beer and Gender
Scottish self-proclaimed “punk rock” brewery Brewdog has released what it calls “the world’s first transgender beer.” Dubbed “No Label,” the beer is “brewed with hops that have changed sex from female...
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You Must Be Fun At Parties: The Myth of the SJW Party Pooper
Now that all the hooplah over shitty Halloween costumes and the right to be an offensive dickwad has started to die down (for this year at least), I think it’s time that we all have a little chat about...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Religious Registration of Babies, Bad Judgement, and...
TURKEY “ Turkish atheist organisation has launched a petition calling for babies to no longer be registered as Muslim at birth. The Atheist Association – which claims to the first of its kind in Turkey...
View ArticleMen “Prank” a Woman By Yelling at Her for Not Wanting to Fuck Them
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: “Mo” and “Et” are two YouTube stars who earned their fame through “pranks”. If you’re not aware, “pranks” are now defined as...
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