#skepchick

I'm gonna take this moment to continue talking about breadtube-adjacent youtubers who are too busy preening themselves in the mirror for the camera to ever have a moment of real self-reflection

Case in Point: Rebecca Watson, aka Skepchick

Who made this video, saying we should believe women (yes!), ESPECIALLY when there is a deliberate media spin occurring to discredit their testimonies of abuse, AFTER MAKING THIS VIDEO (this is her own website, not youtube, so there's a transcript that quite literally spells it out), and seemingly with zero cognitive dissonance: "believe women always, unless they're filthy lying jews"

Coupled with the fact that she also put out this video discussing why it's neigh impossible to fact check anything anymore (which I had called ages before she bothered to think about this topic as a video, anyway)

Unfortunately, systematic reviews of the literature have failed to come up with more than a handful of cases that bear passing similarity to one another. Instead of it being an actual psychological phenomenon, it’s just a story the media likes to tell when explaining victim behavior that people might not immediately understand.

Or, to summarize many researchers over the years who have studied this, like Dr. Allan Wade, it’s a way to infantilize victims, removing their agency and explaining their actions with pseudoscientific hand-wavery. 

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There’s a really disturbing situation happening in China that I think it’s important everyone know about as soon as possible. The very talented maker Naomi Wu, aka Sexy Cyborg, has revealed that Chinese authorities have paid her a visit and essentially threatened her to stop her from posting on social media. Jackie Singh has the story and some quotes from Wu on her site hackingbutlegal.com, which I encourage you to go read in full.