The issues she brings up in this video are big reasons why it's so helpful when viewers spread the word to friends, family and social media about their favorite YouTube videos and channels. You can't assume the search box, feed or even "liking" a video will boost a creator.

As a woman making long-form videos on YouTube, apparently I've got the deck (aka the algorithm) stacked against me. As if I didn't know! My gaming channel's had very VERY slow growth over the years and I've been asked many times why I bother to keep doing it.

Well, not only do I enjoy it, I learn a lot (about gaming, editing, streaming, etc), I meet some great people, I've cheered a few of you up when you're down, and I've helped a lot of folks with gaming tips and solutions. I also think it's important to be out there as an over-50 gamer and a female gamer on YouTube who's playing everything from the smalled indie title to the biggest AAA's.

Don't let an algorithm control what you see! Notifications are notoriously unreliable on YouTube too so don't rely on those either. Make sure to subscribe to channels you like and check the "subscriptions" tab on your computer, phone or TV rather than the home page or "feed."

MRA's love to claim that if women were in charge the world would go to shit bc we'd "get our periods and declare war," which is obviously a batshit insane, uneducated, and maximally misogynistic belief to begin with. I shouldn't have to tell you that our periods don't actually make us emotionally unstable, that in fact fewer than 20% of college-age women (women who aren't even old enough for the prefrontal cortex to finish developing, and thus are far from old enough to, for example, be eligible to run for US president) even report "severe" psychological symptoms of PMS - and this includes symptoms like depressed mood and anxiety.

in fact, PMS isn't even something all women experience. and of those who do, there's a huge variety of ways it can present. most symptoms women associate with PMS are not emotional: bloating, body soreness, headaches, oversleeping, food cravings, nausea/vomiting, hot flashes, breast tenderness....

from the article linked above: "Definitions of PMS and diagnostic criteria to identify cases have varied substantially over the years and across studies, in large part due to the heterogeneity of women’s menstrual symptom experience. Over 150 symptoms have been associated with PMS."

overwhelmingly, research shows that the effect of PMS on women in the workplace is the same as that of any other medical problem/illness: some people miss some work if it's severe enough. which, considering that symptoms can often include various types of pain that can be quite severe, as well as common illness symptoms like nausea and vomiting, it makes perfect sense that some women would need to take a day off or leave a bit early at times. what the research does NOT say is that PMS causes women to behave in irrational ways that negatively impact the quality of her work.

so let's be truthful. why would female leaders mean more war when women and girls are so overwhelmingly and horrifically sexually victimized as a result?

if most women don't even experience severe mood symptoms with PMS, and having mood symptoms doesn't mean one is unable to control her actions/behaviors (I know this concept of self-control is foreign to most men, but we're pretty good at it!), and there's absolutely zero evidence to suggest that severe PMS mood symptoms would or could ever lead to declaring war, and women old enough to hold office in most countries have many years of experience managing their pre/peri-menstrual symptoms (if they even have any), and most world leaders are past the age women stop even having periods at all, and we see that women in other leadership positions are absolutely crushing it all over the world, and there IS significant evidence showing that women in numerous fields actually outperform male peers (despite feeling significantly less respected in higher-rank positions than males feel, as well as feeling more discouraged and frustrated) and are more emotionally intelligent, there IS evidence that women are less influenced by and better at regulating anger in the workplace, and there IS indisputable evidence that men are more violent than women in general, regardless of the reason, and there IS indisputable evidence that women and girls suffer mass victimization by men during wartime... then maybe, just maybe, women are actually less likely than men to start wars. but there's only one way to find out for sure 😏

regarding common tropes about ganon's writing in fics, I am kind of always taken aback a little anytime ganondorf uses degrading sexist terms in fics and such. Because to me, even his most evil interpretations would probably have no reason to have negative associations with women who have sex a lot, unless he picked it up from elsewhere (like there's some room for it to be interesting psychologically speaking if that's directly addressed, but it never is). I'm not sure why the gerudos would ever cultivate these kind of misogynistic ideas in their own culture, or why Ganondorf would spontaneously decide to form any essentialist ideas he may potentially develop on the basis of promiscuity, of all things. And, if he would pick that up from Hyrule... why would he, why this, and how does that map out with him remaining proudly gerudo in most iterations if he sees any non-married woman getting funky in a negative way?

it's kind of a very small thing, but it does kind of beckons a lot of questions regarding worldbuilding and psychology and it tends to take me out of fics a little, because it's always kind of assumed and never investigated

I should play CF again with a fresh clear head just to see if I actually like it without fandom bullshit clouding my mind

All the men who see women's sports skyrocketing right now and they're like, "Yup, we told you, if it's good we'll watch, you get what you deserve, it was never about misogyny, that's just what happens when you're interesting to watch, no bias at all." Shut up LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

In case any of y’all were wondering the current state of racial discourse on YouTube… this is literally the first few comments that crop up, I’m scared to sort by new… imagine being so brain dead that you can’t come up with another reason someone might behave like this (domestic violence, misogyny, other upbringing etc) and just assume it’s bc he has a bit more melanin in his body…

"Light, is there a story with an Aes Sedai where she isn't a villain ?"

— Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

Based on Medusa by Laura Dreyfus Barney

honestly if one more person says “I’ll never forgive her for what she did to Michael” while I’m talking about Gertrude Robinson I will take Michael out back and put him down

anyway, my conspiracy theory is that the academy loved fêting Greta Gerwig as long as she made niche arty films for women, but as soon as her work actually started rivaling the attention (and box office draw) that the men were getting, she was a lot less fun to have on the ballot.

I also think it's very telling that I keep seeing film twitter be like "oh, so you think that Justine Triet didn't deserve her spot? is Justine Triet not good enough for you?"

like wow, is there a reason why you think that Gerwig would've gotten Triet's spot specifically?

:|

terfs go climb into a hole and start rotting. animals cannot inherently tell your "biological sex" you are all so fucking stupid. All this post is saying is that animals are not infallible judges of character and some of them make really stupid vibe checks and that people should try not to take it personally. Unless youre a terf in which case they know and they hate you and you should take it personally

re that one post tbh i do want to stress i dont think animals are like magically psychic at knowing your True Gender tbh i think ppl definitely get way too weird about Animal's judgement of ppl.

Sometimes a dog will vibe check a man and the dog will be right and you should listen. but sometimes the dog will vibe check someone for no good reason. sometimes dogs have wack judgement. sometimes dogs have biases influenced by their owners or previous owners. like. there are Racist Dogs. its not the dogs fault, but that doesnt make the bias theyve developed less real, or less potentially hurtful. i dont think we need to like, Cancel Dogs Bc Sometimes Ppl Can Train Them To Be Racist, but we do need to stop perpetuating the idea that a dog's judgement of someone is infallible. theyre not responsible for it and its not their fault its developed, theyre just dogs, they didnt choose it, but that doesnt mean theyre RIGHT lmao. i think its important to stress this for many reasons but in regard to that last post specifically, if youve ever been vibe checked as a gender you arent by a judgy dog its literally not your fault. might not even be the owners fault. not the dogs fault cos like. its a fucking dog. you do kinda have to be the bigger person in that scenario cos the other person is. A Dog.

I'll never be over the fact that Whitefem started arguing that misogyny was actually worse than slavery because -unlike any other oppression- women had to continuously interact with their oppressor (male family member, at work, etc.)

HELLO the experience of Black people being a minority in a non-Black country is right here !!!!

Exposing YouTube's Bias!

YOU TUBE’S NEW AI IS PUTTING MALE CREATORS OVER FEMALE CREATORS, even in the how to, cooking and beauty niches.

YOU TUBE IS ALSO PUSHING SHORTS OVER LONG FORM VIDS, AND SHORT FORM PAYS LESS

also: i didn't like the jerseys