In this episode, we discuss the manosphere's hatred of feminist criticism, the utility of debate, made-up swear words, and daylight savings time.
Endnotes:
5:22 - https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/1021/Laura%20Mulvey,%20Visual%20Pleasure.pdf
7:22 – Should say “re-using the male gaze”
11:02 - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-cooper-christian-cooper-speaks-out-that-act-was-unmistakably-racist/
11:30 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUWBoYwAgaE (note, this is not the original post)
12:42 – The channel creators at Feminist Frequency manually turned off their comments. The more recent change is that YouTube got rid of the ability to see dislikes for all videos on the site. You can still hit the dislike button and the creator can see how many dislikes they have, but users can no longer see dislikes on videos they did not upload.
15:05 – This Contrapoints video is, unfortunately, no longer visible
19:05 – I could not find the famous study the gamergate followers point to, but here is a link to the American Psychological Associations report https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/03/violent-video-games-behavior.
24:15 - https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/astroworld-satan-demonic-conspiracy-theory-1254878/
28:09 - https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/22/14690718/milo-yiannopoulos-pedophilia-cpac-book-deal-resignation-timeline
30:38 - https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/the-peterson-family-meat-cleanse/567613/
32:19 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bixgOtkLao The exact example Zizek uses here is the U.S. army’s “politically correct” euphemism for torture as “enhanced interrogation.”
33:09 – Shohat, Ella and Robert Stam. “Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right-Left Convergence,” in Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, ed. Nada Elia et. al, Duke University Press, 2016, pp. 416-434. https://www.dukeupress.edu/critical-ethnic-studies
38:30 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLqXkYrdmjY The clip in question is from 3:50-4:28.
38:19 – It was https://www.newsweek.com/milo-yiannopoulos-reports-having-covid-shares-pic-ivermectin-this-not-fun-1624019
42:25 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x69Y61ThyV0
44:28 - https://theoutline.com/post/7023/what-is-a-douchenozzle-swear-nerds
56:17 - https://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/daylight-savings-time-state-legislation.aspx
57:06 - https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexisnedd/reasons-you-might-be-a-douche-canoe
57:54 - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kyle-rittenhouse-claims-supports-black-lives-matter-tucker-carlson-int-rcna6311
Content Warnings: misogyny, racism, sexual misconduct.
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Artwork by jasartstudios
Music by Nicholas Pozzuto
Links to the artifacts:
Feminist Frequency. "Body Language & The Male Gaze - Tropes vs Women in Video Games," YouTube, 31 March 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPOla9SEdXQ
Domise, Andray. "The Jordan Peterson–Slavoj Žižek Debate Was Good for Something," Macleans, 1 May 2019. https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-jordan-peterson-slavoj-zizek-was-good-for-something/
