Come on, Beatles Reference Kinja Name. It’s critical to point out micro-aggressions as well as larger sexist and racist offenses.
Come on, Beatles Reference Kinja Name. It’s critical to point out micro-aggressions as well as larger sexist and racist offenses.
Right? I would have been REAL PISSED.
Darth Wader
I didn’t fuck with Delilah until I moved to NYC and now I fully associate her with late-night fruit and vegetable shopping and I’m so into it. Everyone should know the surreal pleasure of browsing battered tomatoes at 10pm under fluorescent lights while listening to Delilah talk about feelings.
One year we had an Aladdin themed recital and the costume for my tap dance was a camel. Does that count?
And if only it were confined to history! Good luck finding a science class that points out that Cecilia Payne was the one who determined that hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. That wasn't a groundbreaking discovery and the basis of tons of later work or anything...
This has been pointed out on the podcast in previous years as well. It’s unfortunate they have to continually point out to all the fucking chauvinists out there that aren’t used to hearing about anything but men’s history that involving some content that focuses on women is not unfair or threatening. It’s called, “The…
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe did this too. They have a science-history segment they do, and during one of them they said that they had gotten complaints about focusing on women too much, and then they went back and counted and found it was like 4:1 in favor of men, at which point they committed to talking about…
“Perhaps you could rename [the] podcast, stuff you missed in history class mostly about women”
Ah yes, the Before Time, when male babies appeared out in the field like Cabbage Patch Kids, before The Womenz came.
I can see the basis for complaint. Women didn’t even exist until the 1960s, so it’s really a disservice to cover them at all. It is a history podcast, after all, and history was written by us white men.
Agreed, but there’s a difference between a one star review for “My drink took 10 minutes” and one star review for “I’m out $1000 and this contractor did a shit job I have to pay even more money to fix.” One is overkill, the other is probably not.
the first season starts with Zombies and dragons. where did you think this was going?
Bad publicity.
First comedy and now this. When will Family Guy stop ruining things.
How far has my womb wandered?
7. You’re definitely talking about wanting the right to vote, but not actually doing anything about it.