Feminism in the mass media, and thank you BBC!
Hooray! Subi has found enough of a voice to make her video. Go check it out, there’s a bit around the 4min mark that made me punch the air.
If you haven’t watched us on the BBC yet, watch it now!
For non-UK viewers, if you use a proxy service like TunnelBear or ExPatShield that should make the official link watchable, or you can find less legitimate sources if you Google around…
This Dame:
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LAST CHANCE!!! You have until 9pm today to watch our TV appearance on BBC iPlayer.
Non-UK followers if you use a proxy service like tunnelbear or expatshield that should make the official link watchable. Alternatively if you Google around you’ll probably find other places you can watch us too *cough*
LOUD NOISES!! Today’s your LAST CHANCE to watch our TV appearance on BBC iPlayer.
Reminder for non-UK followers if you use a proxy service like tunnelbear or expatshield that should make the official link watchable. Alternatively if you Google around you’ll probably find other places you can watch us too *cough*
Oops, in all the excitement over us hitting 1,000 subscribers I forgot to post this week’s TOPIC ANNOUNCEMENT! So let’s do that now…
THIS WEEK: We’ll be talking Feminism in the Media/ZOMG WE WERE ON TELLY!! This will give us a chance to debrief on the whole experience and maybe give you a bit more background to our part in the show.
NEXT WEEK: We’ve pencilled in Reclaiming Words, which could include “feminism is not a dirty word”, “vagina is not a dirty word”, and a probably a few more salty terms too…
THE WEEK AFTER: We’ll be looking at Women in Sport to celebrate the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
And that’s your lot!
A note for our shiny new followers; every week (normally on a Sunday!) we put up a post like this telling you what we’ll be talking about this week, and for the two weeks after. Although our planned topics do sometimes change this gives you a bit of a heads up and provides inspiration to some of our aspiring guest vloggers.
So if you’d like to submit a guest video on any of these topics (or any other topic) please let us know.
We’ve also had quite a few topic suggestions this week, so if there’s anything you’d really like us to talk about let us know that too. - Becca x
[First image is a TV screengrab taken from BBC iPlayer. It shows five women sitting on a sofa with arms up mid-surprise while a sixth woman shows raises her arms to display her armpits.
Second image shows two young white women holding a pair of protest signs in reference to the Michigan House of Representatives banning speakers who used the word “vagina” on the house floor. The first reads “I CUNT believe she said VAGINA!!” and the second reads “TWAT was she thinking?!”. If anyone can give me the original source I’d appreciate it, I found it here on Feministing.
Third image shows a black and white line up of six women of different shapes, sizes and weights wearing swimwear. Underneath each woman is their name, their Olympic sport, their height and their weight. Image originally from Sports Illustrated for Women, taken here from sumptuous.com - why don’t you look like a fitness model?]
I love this photo so much.
Taken on Wednesday night in response to people on Twitter saying our armpit hair was “gross” or “unhygienic” and made them want to vomit. Ha! Good.This will forever perfectly capture The Night We Were On The BBC.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnd breathe. Wow. Just. Wow. So the last 24 hours have been a bit interesting. O_O
First of all we should probably say a big hello to all the 200+ new people (and climbing) HELLO! Welcome to Those Pesky Dames! ♥
If you haven’t already make sure you check out our YouTube channel as that’s where it’s all at. We’ve even got a kind of “Intro to Those Pesky Dames” playlist with our first videos and some of our favourites.
However we should also say a huge thank you to everyone who’s supported us up to this point. Everyone who watched our videos and subscribed, and commented, and shared and engaged with the topics. There’s no way we’d have gotten onto BBC Three without you! ♥
For anyone who’s missed the programme you can catch up here for the next seven days, and if you’re outside the UK we’ve had suggestions that expatshield and www.tunnelbear.com should make that link viewable.
Thank you all SO much for all of your incredibly kind messages of support and love. Between us we’ll do our best to respond to you all over the next few days.
Lots of Pesky love, The Dames xxxxxxx
Everyone should check out Those Pesky Dames after their mention on BBC3.
I wish I was as rad as them.
I bet you are totes are as rad as we are! And we do take guest videos just so you know… - Becca x
catching up on cherry healey’s ‘How to get a life’ and spied these beauties at the end, can’t wait for next week :D
SCREEN SHOTS OF OUR EPISODE!!! Thank you! <3
If you’ve not already, make sure you join the Facebook Event and tune in to BBC3 July 4th at 9pm!
