1 00:00:00,058 --> 00:00:00,878 Hey Beyonce 2 00:00:00,878 --> 00:00:01,914 Guess what? 3 00:00:01,914 --> 00:00:03,277 You're a liar. I'm calling you out. 4 00:00:03,277 --> 00:00:06,451 Beyonce is selling you a bill of goods, and I'm here to tell you not to buy it. 5 00:00:06,451 --> 00:00:09,036 Her new song is called "Girls Who Run the World" 6 00:00:09,036 --> 00:00:12,100 I don't think it's right that she's out there promulgating historical inaccuracies 7 00:00:12,100 --> 00:00:16,352 to impressionable young women, imparting the false belief that they run the world, 8 00:00:16,352 --> 00:00:19,293 thereby lulling them into a false sense of achievement 9 00:00:19,293 --> 00:00:21,478 and distracting them from doing the work it takes 10 00:00:21,478 --> 00:00:23,152 to actually run the world. 11 00:00:23,290 --> 00:00:26,000 Which, by the way, I don't think female world domination is the goal. 12 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,086 I think the endgame should be a socially egalitarian society. 13 00:00:29,378 --> 00:00:31,499 Girls really run the world? 14 00:00:31,499 --> 00:00:33,599 First of all, women are universally dominated 15 00:00:33,599 --> 00:00:35,711 There is not a society known where women as a group 16 00:00:35,711 --> 00:00:38,075 have decision making power over men as a group. 17 00:00:38,075 --> 00:00:40,086 [singing] "Who'll run the world? Girls!" 18 00:00:40,086 --> 00:00:41,761 A better question would be 19 00:00:41,761 --> 00:00:43,198 [singing] "Name the only American minority group 20 00:00:43,198 --> 00:00:46,614 that actually constitutes a majority of the population: GIRLS!" 21 00:00:46,614 --> 00:00:52,296 50.7% of the U.S. population is female, but sociologists consider women a minority group 22 00:00:52,296 --> 00:00:54,468 because of their position relative to men, 23 00:00:54,968 --> 00:00:55,468 the dominant group. 24 00:00:55,468 --> 00:00:57,477 There are things called "women's issues", 25 00:00:57,477 --> 00:00:59,717 which are apparently are "special interests". 26 00:00:59,717 --> 00:01:03,466 A problem that affects half of the population of your country 27 00:01:03,466 --> 00:01:06,107 is not a "special interest", ok? 28 00:01:06,107 --> 00:01:08,279 It's a big interest. It's a regular interest. 29 00:01:08,279 --> 00:01:11,956 So Beyonce, you really want to try to convince me that girls run the world? 30 00:01:11,956 --> 00:01:15,031 Is that why 90% of rape victims are female? 31 00:01:15,031 --> 00:01:18,971 And similarly, 95% of domestic abuse victims are female. 32 00:01:18,971 --> 00:01:23,361 According to that statistic, we're not even running our domeciles, let alone the globe. 33 00:01:23,361 --> 00:01:25,500 You'd agree that something should be done about that, right? 34 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:26,436 So let me tell you, 35 00:01:26,436 --> 00:01:29,812 in South Caroline in 2005, cockfighting became a felony. 36 00:01:29,812 --> 00:01:32,506 That same year, there was a bill to make domestic violence a felony. 37 00:01:32,506 --> 00:01:33,940 Didn't pass. 38 00:01:33,971 --> 00:01:37,593 So apparently, if you let 2 chickens peck at each other for your entertainment 39 00:01:37,593 --> 00:01:38,608 you're a felon. 40 00:01:38,608 --> 00:01:40,762 But if you punch your wife in the teeth, not so much. 41 00:01:41,316 --> 00:01:43,770 If women have such power and influence 42 00:01:43,770 --> 00:01:47,199 then why are female fetuses in China and India selectively aborted? 43 00:01:47,199 --> 00:01:50,314 And before ultrasound was widely available for sex detection 44 00:01:50,314 --> 00:01:53,562 you just had to have the baby, and then if it was a girl, you just kill it. 45 00:01:54,024 --> 00:01:55,051 So. 46 00:01:56,051 --> 00:01:57,517 "Girl power!" 47 00:01:57,702 --> 00:01:59,162 I wish I were making this up. 48 00:01:59,439 --> 00:02:01,139 Let's examine some of the lyrics. 49 00:02:03,483 --> 00:02:04,140 Indeed! 50 00:02:04,140 --> 00:02:05,521 Go to work, and make your cheque, 51 00:02:05,521 --> 00:02:09,205 but be aware that your cheque is gonna be significantly smaller than your male counterparts 52 00:02:09,205 --> 00:02:12,331 because at all ages and at all education levels, 53 00:02:12,331 --> 00:02:16,324 American women are paid only 78% of what a man is paid for doing the same work, 54 00:02:16,324 --> 00:02:18,707 and that is a huge improvement from 1980 when it was only 60%. 55 00:02:23,338 --> 00:02:25,556 I actually agree with you there Beyonce. 56 00:02:25,556 --> 00:02:30,336 Men certainly do not "freak this" the way our culture demands that women do. 57 00:02:30,336 --> 00:02:35,322 Men aren't objectified in the same way or to the same magnitude that women are, 58 00:02:35,322 --> 00:02:36,284 if at all. 59 00:02:36,392 --> 00:02:39,099 Female sexuality is for sale, it;s profitable. 60 00:02:39,099 --> 00:02:39,898 And another thing, 61 00:02:39,898 --> 00:02:44,921 anecdotally, every issue of Cosmopolotan Magazine is about freakin' it. 62 00:02:44,921 --> 00:02:46,988 Women are sent messages like 63 00:02:46,988 --> 00:02:48,659 "First, take off his pants" 64 00:02:48,659 --> 00:02:51,540 But don't sleep with him cuz if you do then you're skanky. 65 00:02:51,540 --> 00:02:52,643 What am I to do? 66 00:02:52,643 --> 00:02:54,716 The message that the media sends women is, like, 67 00:02:54,716 --> 00:02:56,922 "be really really sexy, but not too sexy". 68 00:02:56,922 --> 00:02:58,860 It's a phenomenon known as the "virgin/whore dichotomy". 69 00:02:58,860 --> 00:03:00,632 Go briefly read about it if you want to. 70 00:03:00,632 --> 00:03:01,977 Link in ma pants. 71 00:03:02,316 --> 00:03:06,353 So indeed Beyonce, women have a very unique and contradictory course to navigate 72 00:03:06,353 --> 00:03:07,888 when it comes to freaking it in this country. 73 00:03:11,334 --> 00:03:13,974 Yes. They will. And they do. Often. 74 00:03:13,974 --> 00:03:17,718 I'd like to defer to a very famous doctor on this subject, Dr. Dre. 75 00:03:17,718 --> 00:03:18,955 He says, and I quote: 76 00:03:18,955 --> 00:03:22,604 "Bi*hes aint shit but h*'s and tricks" 77 00:03:22,604 --> 00:03:23,755 There you have it. 78 00:03:23,755 --> 00:03:25,279 Listen Mrs. Carter, you should know this 1st hand: 79 00:03:25,279 --> 00:03:28,187 When your husband isn't busy with his money, cash or h*s, 80 00:03:28,187 --> 00:03:30,551 he's still got 99 problems and a b**ch aint one. 81 00:03:30,690 --> 00:03:33,693 Of the most popular rap songs in recent memory, 82 00:03:33,693 --> 00:03:37,078 I am hard-pressed to think of one that doesn't have any reference to 83 00:03:37,078 --> 00:03:39,256 women as some derogatory name. 84 00:03:39,256 --> 00:03:42,699 Not to mention like workplace sexual harassment or cat-calling 85 00:03:42,699 --> 00:03:44,933 and all other manner of disrespectful things. 86 00:03:49,702 --> 00:03:51,108 Don't call me a b**ch. 87 00:03:51,108 --> 00:03:52,659 It doesn't make me feel empowered. 88 00:03:52,659 --> 00:03:57,279 We have this thing in our society whereby it's somehow OK to do and say sexist things 89 00:03:57,279 --> 00:04:01,524 because somehow they're not sexist anymore since women have so much power. 90 00:04:01,524 --> 00:04:03,730 And I think the media is partially to blame for this. 91 00:04:03,730 --> 00:04:06,638 Yes, it's nice to see female doctors and lawyers on tv 92 00:04:06,638 --> 00:04:08,716 and Geena Davis even played a female president 93 00:04:08,716 --> 00:04:09,986 in that one show 94 00:04:09,986 --> 00:04:10,938 that got canceled. 95 00:04:10,938 --> 00:04:13,262 And yes, lady humans can work and vote and work outside the home 96 00:04:13,262 --> 00:04:16,872 and all sorts of other things that weren't part of the status quo of past eras. 97 00:04:16,872 --> 00:04:21,284 But a simple survey of reality will reveal that we don't run anything. 98 00:04:21,284 --> 00:04:23,256 And pretending we do will get us nowhere. 99 00:04:23,256 --> 00:04:24,800 I think not only is it not helpful, 100 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,038 it's actually harmful. 101 00:04:26,038 --> 00:04:29,547 Like, these messages of girl power in art and music and movies and 102 00:04:29,547 --> 00:04:30,583 all other sorts of media 103 00:04:30,583 --> 00:04:34,694 are useless unless there's actual work being done behind them 104 00:04:34,694 --> 00:04:38,271 A shift in values, policy changes, and changes in perception, 105 00:04:38,271 --> 00:04:40,613 there just needs to be a huge shift, 106 00:04:40,613 --> 00:04:42,020 and that's gonna take some time. 107 00:04:42,020 --> 00:04:45,095 The sporadic campaigns of girl power aren't really gettin' the job done. 108 00:04:45,095 --> 00:04:48,170 Remember the late 90's era of girl power circa Spice Girls? 109 00:04:48,170 --> 00:04:50,777 A group of ladies that told us we could be sporty 110 00:04:50,777 --> 00:04:52,348 or we could be scary 111 00:04:52,348 --> 00:04:53,117 we could be posh 112 00:04:53,117 --> 00:04:54,996 or we could dye our hair red like ginger 113 00:04:54,996 --> 00:04:56,442 or we could be babies. 114 00:04:56,442 --> 00:04:57,488 Awesome. 115 00:04:57,518 --> 00:04:59,080 Cuz that's just what women need more of: 116 00:05:01,064 --> 00:05:03,653 Women have made great strides towards equality, 117 00:05:03,653 --> 00:05:05,124 but we're not there yet. 118 00:05:05,124 --> 00:05:08,332 So it's a little premature to be making victory anthems. 119 00:05:08,332 --> 00:05:10,811 If you're at all interested by anything I said in this video, 120 00:05:10,811 --> 00:05:13,953 or realize that some of this stuff I talked about isn't really fair, 121 00:05:13,953 --> 00:05:16,093 then you should look into it for yourself, 122 00:05:16,093 --> 00:05:17,394 and if you want to do it the old fashioned way 123 00:05:17,394 --> 00:05:18,566 I highly recommend this book. 124 00:05:18,566 --> 00:05:20,973 It's called Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti, 125 00:05:20,973 --> 00:05:22,866 an excellent, excellent book. 126 00:05:22,866 --> 00:05:24,149 Or you could just go to our website, 127 00:05:24,149 --> 00:05:24,882 which is called 128 00:05:26,728 --> 00:05:29,143 which is dangerously close to the word "fisting" 129 00:05:29,143 --> 00:05:31,308 and makes me feel, frankly, uncomfortable to say it. 130 00:05:31,308 --> 00:05:32,829 And that concludes this video 131 00:05:32,829 --> 00:05:33,795 bye everyone. 132 00:05:35,702 --> 00:05:36,349 50 po... 133 00:05:36,349 --> 00:05:39,397 BEEP [machine voice] "a mass virus database has been updated" 134 00:05:39,397 --> 99:59:59,999 Thank you for that. 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