Rebecca Watson - Women's Intuition and Other Fairy Tales

Rebecca Watson of Skepchick.org and the Skeptics Guide to the Universe gives a talk at CFI Transnational in Amherst, N.Y. on Women's Intuition and Other Fairy Tales.

Recorded on 4/15/2011.

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[chipcherry]

This was a great talk. All this 'mommy instinct' and 'woman's intuition' has a facade of empowering women, but it's more of an ego-stroker to get women to buy books. And as Rebecca says, it can make women feel inadequate when they realize that they don't have these powers that everyone else claims to have that makes them so happy.

Eff Oprah, eff Jenny McC and eff John Edward.

[LordSauceness]

@montyollie _ The person lecturing was NOT,... flinging insults,... in my humble, atheist opinion.... BUT....when you have vaccinaction statistics that clearly show a reversal in infectious disease, v.s. a clear comeback in said disease (without vaccincations), then I'm sorry to report that the word *idiot*,... is the ONLY.. descriptive word available in the English language.

[jacobytyler]

Please write an Anti-Oprah book

[yashaouchan]

I really like Rebecca and her ideas, I agree with most of them, but I don't like how she never talks about men. It's excluding half of her possible fan base.

[Mirani2]

@chipcherry I think all this "women have intuition and men don't" can also be used as a giant excuse for men to feign stupidity and hence responsibility for thier actions.

For example: "Oh, I don't have the sensitivity and intuition you do, so I didn't realize you didn't like being catcalled."

[llenbridges11a]

This is a very "wrathful" video. =p

[studiounluck]

No short comments.

[ZombieCobain]

I'd like to thank Rebecca for making me feel a little better about being a man and quite able (in my opinion) to determine what my wife and children are feeling.

I would like to provide a counterpoint to the douchebag commercials. Advertisers hurt both genders. Do you think I like watching a NFL football gorilla invent a problem and then advertise a product? Am I expected to follow alpha ape just because I'm an average ape? Furthermore the Enzyte add saturation made me sick.

[ZombieCobain]

Short people and ugly people make less and rise to less power regardless of talent. Where's my lobby?

[Binkophile]

@GozerTheGozerian

[citation needed]

Without it, its you who lacks credibility.

[GozerTheGozerian]

People paying money to attend a "lecture" by a person who has been caught in lie after lie and drama after drama.

Rebecca Watson has been banned from several skeptic forums for making fake accounts to praise herself, she publicly humiliated two college students during a recent lecture, and her lectures are almost always about her. How can anyone think she has credibility?

[CrimsonRefractions]

Funny thing is I was going to this video to hear something completely disconfirmatory to what I believe (and is known): namely the supposed existence of women's intuition. Which I feel to be very much against equality of individuals. Turned out the video title was deprecated, and it actually was this lecture. Ah well, gonna enjoy it probably :)