Global Quickies: Dead Threats From Monks, Abortion Access, and Rights of...
FRANCE “A French mayor has been suspended from his party after calling for the country to ban Islam.” BOLIVIA “Bolivian President Evo Morales on Tuesday said he was sorry for telling his health...
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INDIA “After an Indian temple chief recently said he would allow women to enter the shrine only after a machine was invented to detect if they were “pure” – meaning that they weren’t menstruating –...
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EUROPEAN UNION Poland and Hungary block EU proposal on property regimes of married and registered couples (including same-sex couples), arguing that this proposal infringe their sovereignty and...
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GERMANY “German police have arrested five members of a South Korean family suspected of beating to death a 41-year-old woman in a religious exorcism ritual in a hotel room.” EUROPEAN UNION A British...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Noodly Weddings, ‘Accidental’ Rape, and Girls Rescued from...
NEW ZEALAND “New Zealand has given approval to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to carry out marriage ceremonies in the country.” JAPAN (From Mary) “The Japanese Supreme Court has upheld a...
View ArticleHow Han Solo Transformed a Misogynist Trope in The Force Awakens
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE FORCE AWAKENS! YOU FOOLS! TURN AWAY NOW! SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY. Okay. First of all, I saw The Force Awakens last weekend and I fucking loved it. I loved the action, I loved the new...
View ArticleTrigger Warnings vs. Spoiler Warnings: Which Are Destroying Society?
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: I was reading an io9 post about Game of Thrones the other day about the producers responding to complaints about last season’s...
View ArticleComedian Beth Stelling Speaks Out About Abusive Relationship
Yesterday, Beth Stelling took to her Instagram to post photos of bruises all over her body, saying that they were the result of her abusive ex-boyfriend. Stelling was recently dating comedian Cale...
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Los Angeles Women’s Atheist and Agnostic Group – Bitch Planet Meetup!
You read that right! The Los Angeles Women’s Atheist and Agnostic Group is having its monthly book club meetup and this month we are reading and chatting about an AWESOME comic series called Bitch...
View ArticleAmbition, Alcoholism, and Alias Investigations: Jessica Jones Review
Now that Jessica Jones has been out long enough for everyone else to have finished it and for me to have made it through my second run through, it seems appropriate to give it a write up, as it takes...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Coordinated Sexual Assaults, Distracting Bras, and Racists...
GERMANY “The mayor of Cologne has summoned police for crisis talks after about 80 women reported sexual assaults and muggings by men on New Year’s Eve. The scale of the attacks on women at the city’s...
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The Force Awakens, Mary Sue & Female Wish Fulfillment Tropes
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I used to write a lot of pop culture meta. Before I was a science nerd I was a different sort of nerd, one created in the smashing together of advanced...
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The Contraception Tab
This week I spoke with Beth Sundstrom and Andrea DeMaria, Co-Directors of the Women’s Health Research Team at the College of Charleston, about why the pill is still our go-to birth control choice when...
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White Nights, Black Paradise Book Club and Galentine’s Celebration!
I have decided to be a better friend by giving all of our wonderful readers a chance to get more involved in the Los Angeles Women’s Atheist and Agnostic Group activities. I will do my best to post...
View ArticleIn Defense of Pink Science
Over at Quartz, Shannon Palus wrote a great piece about how condescending so many campaigns to get women into STEM are, whereby companies market to women using female stereotypes under the assumption...
View ArticleYou Don’t Have To Watch Anything
Content Note: This post includes discussions of sexual assault and the experience of being triggered. It also contains a spoiler for episode six of Jessica Jones. This week we found out that the very...
View ArticleAssholes and Heads
I met a woman about 5 years ago who was working for a skeptic organization doing PR. At the time when I met her I was super enthusiastic about the idea of organized skepticism and immersed in the...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Ban on “Wine”, Witch Camps Closing, and Blasphemy
PAKISTAN “A teenage boy cut off his own hand after being told he was a blasphemer by an imam. The police arrested the cleric, accusing him of using hate speech to incite violence. UK “Campaign group...
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NECSS Dumps Richard Dawkins Over Hate Tweet
A few days ago, I wrote about two disappointing developments: that the Center for Inquiry had merged with the Richard Dawkins Foundation (with Dawkins joining their Board of Directors), and that the...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood is STILL Not Selling Baby Parts, You Fucking Idiots
Sorta transcript: Just a quick update to my previous video in which I pointed out that Planned Parenthood isn’t selling baby parts, you fucking idiots. Weirdly, hundreds of thousands of people saw my...
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