Handmaid’s Tale is Feminist Torture Porn
Yeah, I said it. Feminist torture porn. Basically we have two full seasons of the men getting away with every sort of physical, emotional and psychological torture imaginable, with June either blankly...
View ArticleBring Back Tuca and Bertie
It’s funny, it’s feminist, and you should watch it even if it ends up being only one season long. Ok, so I promised Nicole I would pick up the Quickies for her today, but instead I want to bring your...
View ArticleQuickies: Exposing Pick-up Artists, White Nationalists, and...
Dating Sim Meets Survival Horror: The Game that Exposes Pick-up Artists, by Laura Hudson at The Guardian: “Created by artist and academic Angela Washko, The Game: The Game drops you smack dab in the...
View ArticleSlayer Guitarist and Other Gullible Men Believe #FartRape is Real
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Friends, it’s time we talked about #FartRape. Yeah, I said it: “Fart...
View ArticleQuickies: Pro-Lifers Admit to Misogynistic Motivations and the Amazon is...
A New Poll Shows What Really Interests ‘Pro-Lifers’: Controlling Women, by Jill Filipovic at the Guardian: “A Supermajority/PerryUndem survey released this week divides respondents by their position on...
View ArticleQuickies: Men Know What Harassment Is, but Women Are Still Blamed
Men Now Avoid Women at Work–Another Sign We’re Being Punished for #MeToo, by Arwa Mahdawi at the Guardian: “What’s really interesting about this study, however, is that it thoroughly debunks the...
View ArticleQuickies: Kavanaugh Exposed, Austin’s Abortion Travel Fund, and Surveillance...
Brett Kavanaugh: Even Worse Than We Thought, by Jessica Mason at the Mary Sue: Although the focus during Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination hearings was his sexual assault of Christine Blasey Ford,...
View ArticleFacebook Deletes Science Fact Check at Ted Cruz’s Request
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Let’s talk about censorship, and how wrong it is for government...
View ArticleQuickies: Climate Protests, a White Supremacist’s Hard Drive, & the Times Up...
Photos: What the Youth Climate Strike Looks Like around the World, by Brian Resnick and Danielle Scruggs, Vox: The climate strikes around the world on Friday, September 20, were nothing short of...
View ArticleTERFs Lose Their Minds Over Disposable Menstrual Pad Wrappers
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: I’m sad to announce that women have been eliminated. All of them....
View ArticleMansplain Monday: When Men Explain Things To You By Citing You
Mansplain Mondays are back! You might remember it as the feature that became especially meta when men began responding to the existence of our Mansplain Monday posts by mansplaining the concept of...
View ArticleWhy Men Should Have the Right to Not Be Parents
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Last week I had a spicy take. I mean, let’s be honest, I have a...
View ArticleDr Fiona Hill Brings the Fire
Have y’all been watching the impeachment hearings? I have to admit, for many of us, it’s getting exhausting. We’ve been watching Russian influence take hold of our government for four years. None of...
View ArticleGabrielle Union Fired from America’s Got Talent for Speaking Up About Bullshit
Gabrielle Union was one of my favorite celebrities even before she was a judge on one of my favorite schmaltzy competition shows: America’s Got Talent. She consistently uses her platform as a celebrity...
View ArticleGovernor Releases Rapist & Calls Victim Liar: “Her Hymen was Intact”
Matt Bevin was the Republican governor of the state of Kentucky from 2015 to 2019. He was defeated this year by Democrat Andy Beshear, which was a pretty momentous occasion considering how deeply...
View ArticleAbuse of Abuse
This post has been cowritten with Maria Walters. It includes discussion of domestic abuse, especially emotional and psychological abuse. Last week, the news reported that the editor-in-chief of...
View ArticleJK Rowling is a TERF (but You Can Still Enjoy Harry Potter)
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: JK Rowling, who you may know as the author of the theory that...
View ArticleMost Women are RELIEVED to Get an Abortion
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: You know, when you’ve been making YouTube videos as long as I have,...
View ArticleQuickies: Racist Attacks on Black Businesses, ERA Lawsuit, and Trump’s Itch...
More Georgia Racism: Snellville Business Owners Find ‘No More N***er Businesses’ Letters Pinned to Their Stores, the Root: The headline really says it all, and I don’t want to give the letter itself...
View ArticleGuess Who’s a Skepchick?!?!
The blogger known as Isis the Scientist was born into the webosphere in 2008. Thirty years old and armed with a baby tucked under one arm and a pipette under the other, she was a scrappy new postdoc...
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