Caricatures and the Culture War

Originally posted to Youtube - 5th May 2017

00:00 Feature Spaces
06:08 Real World Logic
13:05 Sitcoms and Oaf Husbands
16:54 TV Shows and Physical Violence
22:28 Videogames and Double Standards
32:15 Movies and Sexuality
37:03 Mario, Reproductive Access, and The Culture War
55:30 Conclusions

------------------- Videos -------------------
Computerphile - Rabbits Faces & Hyperspaces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6iqI2GIllI

Logicked - Idiot MRA Becomes Idiot Feminist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8O0xtbyswk

Sargon - Discussing Gynocentrism with Spinosauruskin and Thinking Ape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-cUlPm2_c8

Mundanematt - In Defense of Guybrush Threepwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv_BHKldVA4

2014 Feminist Chloe Angyal: Our culture hates women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbfKzXa6pjg

------------------- Media Outrage and Offence -------------------
Huffington Post - American Horror Story: Asylum Recap: Death Comes To Briarcliff In Dark Cousin
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joey-deangelis/american-horror-story-asylum-recap-death_b_2211406.html?utm_hp_ref=tv-recaps

Rotten Tomatoes - American Horror Story s02e07 Dark Cousin
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/american_horror_story/s02/e07/

TV By The Numbers - Wednesday Cable Ratings: 'Moonshiners' & 'Duck Dynasty' Win Night, 'American Horror Story', 'Restaurant Impossible','South Beach Tow', 'Conan' & More
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/sdsdskdh279882992z1/wednesday-cable-ratingsmoonshiners-duck-dynasty-win-night-american-horror-story-restaurant-impossiblesouth-beach-tow-conan-more/158865/

Telegraph UK - Here's what's terribly wrong with this X-Men: Apocalypse poster
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/heres-whats-terribly-wrong-with-this-x-men-apocalypse-poster/

Time Magazine - Marvel Is Actually Going to Publish That Sexist Spider-Woman Cover
http://time.com/3594514/marvel-spider-woman-cover/

The Guardian - Call to boycott Tesco over 'endangered' white men claim
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/11/call-to-boycott-tesco-over-endangered-white-men-claim

------------------- GTA Controversy -------------------
ChangeOrg - Sickening game encourages players to commit sexual violence and kill women
https://www.change.org/p/target-withdraw-grand-theft-auto-5-this-sickening-game-encourages-players-to-commit-sexual-violence-and-kill-women

NewsDotCom - Target pulls GTA5 from shelves after a sex workers campaign to shut down Grand Theft Auto V due to its sexual violence
http://www.news.com.au/technology/home-entertainment/gaming/target-pulls-gta5-from-shelves-after-a-sex-workers-campaign-to-shut-down-grand-theft-auto-v-due-to-its-sexual-violence/news-story/44babbe6184dded48e4c2c9dfdbb72e5

Kotaku - Grand Theft Auto V and Women
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/grand-theft-auto-v-and-women/

Polygon - Grand Theft Auto 5's misogyny is a problem its creators must finally address
https://www.polygon.com/2014/12/10/7364823/gta-5s-vicious-misogyny-ought-to-be-addressed-not-ignored

The Telegraph UK - Grand Theft Auto V is designed deliberately to degrade women
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10355275/Grand-Theft-Auto-V-is-designed-deliberately-to-degrade-women.html

------------------- PeTA -------------------
PeTA - Call of Dutys Violence Against Dogs Sparks Student Protest
http://www.peta.org/blog/call-dutys-violence-dogs-sparks-student-protest/

Escapist Magazine - PETA Responds to World at War Dog Killing Controversy
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/90391-PETA-Responds-to-World-at-War-Dog-Killing-Controversy

Softpedia - PETA Joins the Fight Against Call of Duty Dog Killing
http://news.softpedia.com/news/PETA-Joins-The-Fight-Against-Call-of-Duty-Dog-Killing-107730.shtml

Destructoid - PETA jumps on Call of Duty dog killer bandwagon
https://www.destructoid.com/peta-jumps-on-call-of-duty-dog-killer-bandwagon-125960.phtml

DailyMail - 'Genocide' video game where players go on indiscriminate killing sprees is approved for sale in Britain despite outrage over violence
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3093940/Genocide-video-game-victims-stamped-death-shot-point-blank-range-approved-sale-Britain.html

------------------- E3 Controversy -------------------
Salon - Daniel Tosh and rape jokes: Still not funny
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/12/daniel_tosh_and_rape_jokes_still_not_funny/

DailyMail - Rape joke' at expense of girl who was bad at playing video games during Microsoft Xbox One launch causes uproar at E3
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2340033/E3-audience-offended-rape-joke-Microsoft-Xbox-One-event.html

The Atlantic - The Rape 'Joke' at Microsoft's E3 Reveal Is a Bigger Deal Than Another Bad 'Joke'
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/microsoft-e3-rape-joke/314326/

FoxNews - Microsoft 'rape' joke at E3 gaming event sparks outrage
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/06/12/microsofts-rape-joke-at-e3-gaming-event-sparks-outrage.html

Kotaku - The Trash Talk During The Killer Instinct Reveal Was Awful
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/the-trash-talk-during-the-killer-instinct-reveal-was-awful/

Gaming Excellence - E3 2013: Killer Instinct And Rape Culture In Gaming
http://www.gamingexcellence.com/features/e3-2013-killer-instinct-and-rape-culture-in-gaming

CBS News - E3 audience offended by "rape joke" at Microsoft Xbox One event
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/e3-audience-offended-by-rape-joke-at-microsoft-xbox-one-event/

Mary Sue - Microsoft Comments On Xbox Rape Joke Controversy At E3
https://www.themarysue.com/microsoft-reply-rape-comments/

BuzzFeed - "Just Let It Happen": Was There A Rape Joke During Microsoft's Xbox Press Conference?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/just-let-it-happen-was-there-a-rape-joke-during-microsofts-x

Gamers Against Bigotry - Why Just let it happen, itll be over soon is a rape joke, and extremely problematic
https://gamersagainstbigotry.org/2013/06/why-just-let-it-happen-itll-be-over-soon-is-a-rape-joke-and-extremely-problematic/

Huffington Post - There Was An Awkward, Rape-Insinuating Joke At This Official Xbox One Event
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/microsoft-rape-joke-xbox-e3_n_3417890

------------------- Mario -------------------
Video shows Good Samaritan shot before gun jams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wGyXonpqQs

How Can She Slap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4akMaeZ0-k

Johnothan Macintosh - What Is Toxic Masculinity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gha3kEECqUk

United Nations - He For She
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkjW9PZBRfk

Vietnam War Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K7Fc1uFCNk

Pizza Thug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TimQB3iE0rs

------------------- Oaf Husband -------------------
Huffington Post - Study Finds That 'Happy Wife, Happy Life' Is Pretty Dead On
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/happy-wife-happy-life_n_5843596

Huffington Post - 'Mansplaining' Validated By Oxford Dictionaries
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/mansplaining-dictionary-oxford-online_n_5682339

Wall Street Journal - Where Have All The Good Men Gone?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704409004576146321725889448

Time Magazine - Why Women Are More Likely to Ask for a Divorce
http://time.com/4007174/which-spouse-asks-for-divorce/

The Telegraph UK - Women and divorce: Goodbye darling, you're just too dull
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/8739533/Women-and-divorce-Goodbye-darling-youre-just-too-dull....html

Forbes - Women Who Earn More, More Likely To Get Divorced
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2010/09/10/women-who-earn-more-more-likely-to-get-divorced/

DailyMail - Househusband backlash as high-flying wives ditch men they wanted to stay at home
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-467390/Househusband-backlash-high-flying-wives-ditch-men-em-em-wanted-stay-home.html

------------------- Physical Violence -------------------
National Network to End Domenstic Violence - The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Renewal passes the House and Senate and signed into law
http://nnedv.org/policy/issues/vawa.html

White Ribbon - Prevent Mens Violence Against Women
https://www.whiteribbon.org.au/

Take Back The Night
https://takebackthenight.org/

Gallop Poll - One in Three U.S. Women Worry About Being Sexually Assaulted
http://www.gallup.com/poll/196487/one-three-women-worry-sexually-assaulted.aspx

Time Magazine - The CDC's Rape Numbers Are Misleading
http://time.com/3393442/cdc-rape-numbers/

Courier Mail - Call for specialist courts to deal with scourge of domestic violence
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/call-for-specialist-courts-to-deal-with-scourge-of-domestic-violence/news-story/648fd500de9aee61ca772aa289aaceae

AusGov Law Reform Commision - Expanding specialised family violence courts in Australia
https://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/32.%20Specialisation/expanding-specialised-family-violence-courts-australia

USA Today - Former Title IX officer accuses Baylor of discrimination, intimidation
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/big12/2017/01/19/former-title-9-officer-gabrielle-lyons-accuses-baylor-discrimination-intimidation/96779182/

Talyor & Francis Online - Sex effects and sentencing: An analysis of the statistical literature
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418829500092601?journalCode=rjqy20

The Washington Post - We should stop putting women in jail. For anything.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/06/we-should-stop-putting-women-in-jail-for-anything/

------------------- Double Standards -------------------
The Sydney Morning Herald - We can all do more to close gender pay gap
http://www.smh.com.au/money/her-money/we-can-all-do-more-to-close-gender-pay-gap-20170309-guu4sw.html

The Australian - Gender gap widens as women graduates outpace the men
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/gender-gap-widens-as-women-graduates-outpace-the-men/news-story/654602edef0f1d3ee230fa82cc58a798

DailyMail - Female firearms officers win 70,000 payout for sex discrimination - because their guns were too big for their small hands
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2561467/Firearms-officer-wins-sex-discrimination-case-against-police-chiefs-gun-big-small-hands.html

PNAS - National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360.abstract

The Guardian - Swedish cinemas take aim at gender bias with Bechdel test rating
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/06/swedish-cinemas-bechdel-test-films-gender-bias

Bloomberg - EU Plan for 40 Percent Quota of Women on Boards Gets Win
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-20/eu-plan-for-40-percent-quota-of-women-on-boards-gets-win

USA Today - The FC Dallas U-15 Academy team beat the U.S. Women' s National Team, 5-2
http://usatodayhss.com/2017/the-fc-dallas-u-15-academy-team-beat-the-u-s-women-s-national-team-5-2

------------------- Sexuality -------------------
AusGov - Rape: the penetrative sexual offence
https://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/25.%20Sexual%20Offences/%E2%80%98rape%E2%80%99-penetrative-sexual-offence

The Guardian - MP proposes UK rape shield law to protect victims in court
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/08/mp-proposes-uk-shield-law-to-protect-victims-in-court

Courier Mail - Hairdresser karate kicks bandit, ties him up, feeds him Viagra and uses him as sex slave for three days
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/hairdresser-karate-kicks-bandit-ties-him-up-feeds-him-viagra-and-uses-him-as-sex-slave-for-three-days/news-story/4855ff766baafc4ae6c81ea9ed104315

The Globe and Mail - Father can't sue mother for lying about being on the pill: Ontario court
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/unwanted-child-no-grounds-to-sue-mom-for-lying-about-taking-the-pill-court/article34192205/

CBC News - Condom Piercer Loses Supreme Court Appeal
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/condom-piercer-loses-supreme-court-appeal-1.2563227

The Telegraph UK - Frenchman ordered to pay wife damages for lack of sex
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8741895/Frenchman-ordered-to-pay-wife-damages-for-lack-of-sex.html

DailyMail - Texas high school math teacher pleads GUILTY to engaging in sexual activity with two 17-year-old students - but WON'T have to register as a sex offender
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4190558/Texas-teacher-pleads-GUILTY-sex-17-yr-old-students.html

Huffington Post - Alleged Statutory Rape Victim Ordered To Pay $15,000 In Child Support
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/nick-olivas-alleged-rape-victim-_n_5773532

MRCTV - NOW Calls Girl Who Falsely Cried Rape an Inspiration to Real Rape Victims
http://www.mrctv.org/blog/now-calls-girl-who-famously-cried-rape-inspiration-real-rape-victims

DailyMail - More men are raped in the US than women, figures on prison assaults reveal
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449454/More-men-raped-US-women-including-prison-sexual-abuse.html

New York Times - Rolling Stone Article on Rape at University of Virginia Failed All Basics, Report Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/rolling-stone-retracts-article-on-rape-at-university-of-virginia.html

Washington Post - U-Va. fraternity files $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/09/phi-psi-chapter-at-u-va-files-25-million-lawsuit-against-rolling-stone/