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How social justice ruined the Legend of Korra
by Rachel Edwards
When I last spoke on this Nerdcast about Legend of Korra, I still had a great deal of praise for the show. Despite it’s many flaws I really believed in it, and I wanted the franchise to succeed.…
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Women waiting to use the bathroom is oppression
In a recent article by Soraya Chemaly, she demands equity for women in the realm of porceline. She states that women waiting in lines to use the bathroom is oppressive and fails to realize how utterly ridiculous this statement is.…
Gone Girl Summary(spoilers!)
by Jess Kay
Gone Girl. I still have not determined if ‘Gone’ is meant to refer to her physical state of being, or her mental state of being. Let’s start at the beginning. The tale follows Nick Dunne as he navigates the landscape of reporting his wife, Amy Elliott Dunne, as missing on the day of their 5th anniversary.…
Writer of satirical article has his home vandalized by SJWs Omar Mahmood, a student at the University of Michigan, was barred from writing in a student newspaper on campus after controversy erupted over an article he’d written. The article in question, “Do the Left Thing,” was a satirical piece poking fun at the ultra-liberal, overly sensitive branch of political left (aka...
Plebcomics and “Justified Doxxing”
By Brian Martinez
Ever since the Internet allowed people to share artwork, there have been illustrations used in place of comments or live journal entries in order to allow people to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas.…
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The Rolling stone travesty
Last month, Rolling Stone published an article by Sabrina Rubin Erdely alleging the brutal gang rape of a woman named Jackie during a party at a University of Virginia fraternity house. The story provided details of the alleged rape, and accused the university of failing to respond to the accusation.…
This week on Badger Pod Nerd Cast:
Over the Garden Wall, a tale of two brothers and their strange adventures in an even stranger forest. Will they ever get back home before the Beast finds them?
Black Dynamite! Let me tell you a stor-aay! He’s a mean muthaf*cka and he’s super-bad!…
Chris Rock comments on political correctness
Comedian Chris Rock spoke of the culture brewing on college campuses in a recent interview, stating that he no longer does shows for colleges because of their extreme political correctness.
Well, I love Bill [Maher], but I stopped playing colleges, and the reason is because they’re way too conservative….…
Superfemmes! How to or not to write or draw women in comics! Comic books, like many other mediums of expression, have quite the checkered past. Comics, at least in the mainstream, have been used as propaganda during World War II in the 1930s and 1940s, were under attack by psychiatrists and politicians for corrupting American youth in the 1950s, entered the Atomic Age with wide-eyed wonder and...
On November 12, 2014, scientist Matt Taylor landed a spacecraft on a comet. But as scientists rejoiced over this feat of extreme difficulty, all feminists could think about was what he was wearing.
The aftermath of TIME‘s word ban poll
Last week we reported an annual TIME poll, calling for the ban of the word feminist.…
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