WEBVTT 00:00:00.058 --> 00:00:00.878 Hey Beyonce 00:00:00.878 --> 00:00:01.914 Guess what? 00:00:01.914 --> 00:00:03.277 You're a liar. I'm calling you out. 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. 00:00:06.451 --> 00:00:09.036 Her new song is called "Girls Who Run the World" 00:00:09.036 --> 00:00:12.100 I don't think it's right that she's out there promulgating historical inaccuracies 00:00:12.100 --> 00:00:16.352 to impressionable young women, imparting the false belief that they run the world, 00:00:16.352 --> 00:00:19.293 thereby lulling them into a false sense of achievement 00:00:19.293 --> 00:00:21.478 and distracting them from doing the work it takes 00:00:21.478 --> 00:00:23.152 to actually run the world. 00:00:23.290 --> 00:00:26.000 Which, by the way, I don't think female world domination is the goal. 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:29.086 I think the endgame should be a socially egalitarian society. 00:00:29.378 --> 00:00:31.499 Girls really run the world? 00:00:31.499 --> 00:00:33.599 First of all, women are universally dominated 00:00:33.599 --> 00:00:35.711 There is not a society known where women as a group 00:00:35.711 --> 00:00:38.075 have decision making power over men as a group. 00:00:38.075 --> 00:00:40.086 [singing] "Who'll run the world? Girls!" 00:00:40.086 --> 00:00:41.761 A better question would be 00:00:41.761 --> 00:00:43.198 [singing] "Name the only American minority group 00:00:43.198 --> 00:00:46.614 that actually constitutes a majority of the population: GIRLS!" 00:00:46.614 --> 00:00:52.296 50.7% of the U.S. population is female, but sociologists consider women a minority group 00:00:52.296 --> 00:00:54.468 because of their position relative to men, 00:00:54.968 --> 00:00:55.468 the dominant group. 00:00:55.468 --> 00:00:57.477 There are things called "women's issues", 00:00:57.477 --> 00:00:59.717 which are apparently are "special interests". 00:00:59.717 --> 00:01:03.466 A problem that affects half of the population of your country 00:01:03.466 --> 00:01:06.107 is not a "special interest", ok? 00:01:06.107 --> 00:01:08.279 It's a big interest. It's a regular interest. 00:01:08.279 --> 00:01:11.956 So Beyonce, you really want to try to convince me that girls run the world? 00:01:11.956 --> 00:01:15.031 Is that why 90% of rape victims are female? 00:01:15.031 --> 00:01:18.971 And similarly, 95% of domestic abuse victims are female. 00:01:18.971 --> 00:01:23.361 According to that statistic, we're not even running our domeciles, let alone the globe. 00:01:23.361 --> 00:01:25.500 You'd agree that something should be done about that, right? 00:01:25.500 --> 00:01:26.436 So let me tell you, 00:01:26.436 --> 00:01:29.812 in South Caroline in 2005, cockfighting became a felony. 00:01:29.812 --> 00:01:32.506 That same year, there was a bill to make domestic violence a felony. 00:01:32.506 --> 00:01:33.940 Didn't pass. 00:01:33.971 --> 00:01:37.593 So apparently, if you let 2 chickens peck at each other for your entertainment 00:01:37.593 --> 00:01:38.608 you're a felon. 00:01:38.608 --> 00:01:40.762 But if you punch your wife in the teeth, not so much. 00:01:41.316 --> 00:01:43.770 If women have such power and influence 00:01:43.770 --> 00:01:47.199 then why are female fetuses in China and India selectively aborted? 00:01:47.199 --> 00:01:50.314 And before ultrasound was widely available for sex detection 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. 00:01:54.024 --> 00:01:55.051 So. 00:01:56.051 --> 00:01:57.517 "Girl power!" 00:01:57.702 --> 00:01:59.162 I wish I were making this up. 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:01.139 Let's examine some of the lyrics. 00:02:03.483 --> 00:02:04.140 Indeed! 00:02:04.140 --> 00:02:05.521 Go to work, and make your cheque, 00:02:05.521 --> 00:02:09.205 but be aware that your cheque is gonna be significantly smaller than your male counterparts 00:02:09.205 --> 00:02:12.331 because at all ages and at all education levels, 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, 00:02:16.324 --> 00:02:18.707 and that is a huge improvement from 1980 when it was only 60%. 00:02:23.338 --> 00:02:25.556 I actually agree with you there Beyonce. 00:02:25.556 --> 00:02:30.336 Men certainly do not "freak this" the way our culture demands that women do. 00:02:30.336 --> 00:02:35.322 Men aren't objectified in the same way or to the same magnitude that women are, 00:02:35.322 --> 00:02:36.284 if at all. 00:02:36.392 --> 00:02:39.099 Female sexuality is for sale, it;s profitable. 00:02:39.099 --> 00:02:39.898 And another thing, 00:02:39.898 --> 00:02:44.921 anecdotally, every issue of Cosmopolotan Magazine is about freakin' it. 00:02:44.921 --> 00:02:46.988 Women are sent messages like 00:02:46.988 --> 00:02:48.659 "First, take off his pants" 00:02:48.659 --> 00:02:51.540 But don't sleep with him cuz if you do then you're skanky. 00:02:51.540 --> 00:02:52.643 What am I to do? 00:02:52.643 --> 00:02:54.716 The message that the media sends women is, like, 00:02:54.716 --> 00:02:56.922 "be really really sexy, but not too sexy". 00:02:56.922 --> 00:02:58.860 It's a phenomenon known as the "virgin/whore dichotomy". 00:02:58.860 --> 00:03:00.632 Go briefly read about it if you want to. 00:03:00.632 --> 00:03:01.977 Link in ma pants. 00:03:02.316 --> 00:03:06.353 So indeed Beyonce, women have a very unique and contradictory course to navigate 00:03:06.353 --> 00:03:07.888 when it comes to freaking it in this country. 00:03:11.334 --> 00:03:13.974 Yes. They will. And they do. Often. 00:03:13.974 --> 00:03:17.718 I'd like to defer to a very famous doctor on this subject, Dr. Dre. 00:03:17.718 --> 00:03:18.955 He says, and I quote: 00:03:18.955 --> 00:03:22.604 "Bi*hes aint shit but h*'s and tricks" 00:03:22.604 --> 00:03:23.755 There you have it. 00:03:23.755 --> 00:03:25.279 Listen Mrs. Carter, you should know this 1st hand: 00:03:25.279 --> 00:03:28.187 When your husband isn't busy with his money, cash or h*s, 00:03:28.187 --> 00:03:30.551 he's still got 99 problems and a b**ch aint one. 00:03:30.690 --> 00:03:33.693 Of the most popular rap songs in recent memory, 00:03:33.693 --> 00:03:37.078 I am hard-pressed to think of one that doesn't have any reference to 00:03:37.078 --> 00:03:39.256 women as some derogatory name. 00:03:39.256 --> 00:03:42.699 Not to mention like workplace sexual harassment or cat-calling 00:03:42.699 --> 00:03:44.933 and all other manner of disrespectful things. 00:03:49.702 --> 00:03:51.108 Don't call me a b**ch. 00:03:51.108 --> 00:03:52.659 It doesn't make me feel empowered. 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 00:03:57.279 --> 00:04:01.524 because somehow they're not sexist anymore since women have so much power. 00:04:01.524 --> 00:04:03.730 And I think the media is partially to blame for this. 00:04:03.730 --> 00:04:06.638 Yes, it's nice to see female doctors and lawyers on tv 00:04:06.638 --> 00:04:08.716 and Geena Davis even played a female president 00:04:08.716 --> 00:04:09.986 in that one show 00:04:09.986 --> 00:04:10.938 that got canceled. 00:04:10.938 --> 00:04:13.262 And yes, lady humans can work and vote and work outside the home 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. 00:04:16.872 --> 00:04:21.284 But a simple survey of reality will reveal that we don't run anything. 00:04:21.284 --> 00:04:23.256 And pretending we do will get us nowhere. 00:04:23.256 --> 00:04:24.800 I think not only is it not helpful, 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:26.038 it's actually harmful. 00:04:26.038 --> 00:04:29.547 Like, these messages of girl power in art and music and movies and 00:04:29.547 --> 00:04:30.583 all other sorts of media 00:04:30.583 --> 00:04:34.694 are useless unless there's actual work being done behind them 00:04:34.694 --> 00:04:38.271 A shift in values, policy changes, and changes in perception, 00:04:38.271 --> 00:04:40.613 there just needs to be a huge shift, 00:04:40.613 --> 00:04:42.020 and that's gonna take some time. 00:04:42.020 --> 00:04:45.095 The sporadic campaigns of girl power aren't really gettin' the job done. 00:04:45.095 --> 00:04:48.170 Remember the late 90's era of girl power circa Spice Girls? 00:04:48.170 --> 00:04:50.777 A group of ladies that told us we could be sporty 00:04:50.777 --> 00:04:52.348 or we could be scary 00:04:52.348 --> 00:04:53.117 we could be posh 00:04:53.117 --> 00:04:54.996 or we could dye our hair red like ginger 00:04:54.996 --> 00:04:56.442 or we could be babies. 00:04:56.442 --> 00:04:57.488 Awesome. 00:04:57.518 --> 00:04:59.080 Cuz that's just what women need more of: 00:05:01.064 --> 00:05:03.653 Women have made great strides towards equality, 00:05:03.653 --> 00:05:05.124 but we're not there yet. 00:05:05.124 --> 00:05:08.332 So it's a little premature to be making victory anthems. 00:05:08.332 --> 00:05:10.811 If you're at all interested by anything I said in this video, 00:05:10.811 --> 00:05:13.953 or realize that some of this stuff I talked about isn't really fair, 00:05:13.953 --> 00:05:16.093 then you should look into it for yourself, 00:05:16.093 --> 00:05:17.394 and if you want to do it the old fashioned way 00:05:17.394 --> 00:05:18.566 I highly recommend this book. 00:05:18.566 --> 00:05:20.973 It's called Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti, 00:05:20.973 --> 00:05:22.866 an excellent, excellent book. 00:05:22.866 --> 00:05:24.149 Or you could just go to our website, 00:05:24.149 --> 00:05:24.882 which is called 00:05:26.728 --> 00:05:29.143 which is dangerously close to the word "fisting" 00:05:29.143 --> 00:05:31.308 and makes me feel, frankly, uncomfortable to say it. 00:05:31.308 --> 00:05:32.829 And that concludes this video 00:05:32.829 --> 00:05:33.795 bye everyone. 00:05:35.702 --> 00:05:36.349 50 po... 00:05:36.349 --> 00:05:39.397 BEEP [machine voice] "a mass virus database has been updated" 00:05:39.397 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you for that. OK.Thank you.