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Nov 2019
36m 28s

Fangirls Just Wanna Have Fun

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As a culture, we are uncomfortably comfortable with mocking fangirls. Why is that? Spoiler alert, it's sexism. Anney and Samantha trace the history of fangirls and our dismissal of them, and discuss why fangirls run the world. 
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