Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 05/5/2012
Saturday Vids: Clinton Foundation – Celebrity Division
Kristen Wiig is in this video. That’s really enough.
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Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 02/25/2012
Saturday Vids: Awesome Teen On Relationships
densing11 on “our culture’s expectancy of marriage & relationship and how it affects the self-worth of particularly younger girls.” Some damn good advice.
Pop-Culture | Posted by CClio333 on 04/2/2011
Saturday Vids: Nerdy Girls Need Love Too
In the spirit of the Team Unicorn debate, here’s a great example of a woman refusing to apologize for her nerdiness!
Pop-Culture | Posted by A. on 02/26/2011
Saturday Vids: Feminist Nerdfighting
As many of you, as frequenters of the Internet, probably know, in 2007 young adult author John Green and his brother, an environmental blogger named Hank Green, started a video blog called Brotherhood 2.0. They quickly developed a kickass community of followers, who grew to be called Nerdfighters, who fight against WorldSuck. Fighting against WorldSuck- all of the non-awesomeness in the world- is what we as activists do best. The two brothers always advocate equality of the sexes, respect for different sexual orientations, respect for the environment, and social awareness in their videos. Here are two of my favorites that most strongly relate to these important messages, one about girls not acting dumb to get guys, and another against homophobia.
Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 08/28/2010
Saturday Vids: Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Thought Bubble
This video, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, made me feel super warm and fuzzy on the inside. Plus, it’s always nice to hear this message. See, everybody, feminists LIKE being nice!
Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 05/13/2010
The Bronte Sisters Action Figures
I want to buy this for everybody I know / how cool would it be if there actually WERE commercials like this…
Feminism | Posted by Helen H on 08/20/2009
it’s funny cuz it’s true…?
Apparently, there’s a whole range of animated sketches about Jordanians (and Arabs in general) up on Youtube. Now, I’m not saying they’re not humorous at all—a lot of people think they’re absolutely hilarious, and I have cracked a smile or two at some parts. But what’s unsettling is why they’re funny. It’s because a lot of the videos accurately depict the attitudes and situations going on around here, and ring true to the viewer. But that’s the thing. I think that because these attitudes actually do exist, we shouldn’t be laughing.
Exhibit A:
This video starts with a young man phoning home from the US. He tells his mother (in a very exaggerated injection of the American accent into the Arabic language) that he will soon be returning to his hometown, and that he wants to find “the other half” of his religion. Hence, being sick of the so-called promiscuity he’s noticing in Western girls, he wants his mother to find a bride for him: a religious girl who speaks to no other males besides her siblings, and one who will not leave the house without wearing clothing that will show nothing but her eyes.
Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 08/19/2009
The Art of YouTubery
YouTube has always been fascinating to me.
For one, I really like basking in human stupidity in order to feel better about myself, and youtube is a particularly excellent way to do this.
But also, YouTube has launched careers. It has connected people to their favorite celebrities, proving that they are not in fact robots (for the most part). And, though this is the least utilized aspect of YouTube, it’s a way for aspiring artists to showcase their work, or to just have fun.
Show Me The Money
Let’s consider Fred. Lucas Cruikshank, who created the character of Fred Figglehorn, is going to be a sophomore this year. He also has a freakin empire because of this channel – a series of videos based on a 6-year-old with anger …
