1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,440 Hello, your absolute lad has recovered from COVID. 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:06,760 But stuff still happens. 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:08,600 So what's up ladies? 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:11,360 We see you in a bad way. 5 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:12,560 By we, I mean, man. 6 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:14,880 Yeah, let's talk about the male gaze. 7 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:16,840 The G-A-Z-E. 8 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:25,160 I mean, we can talk about whatever you want to talk about, but let's talk about a study that was done on women to look at the effects of the male gaze on their ability to do stuff. 9 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:31,480 If you're not familiar, or if you're a dude, the male gaze is the notion of being very aware that you're being objectified. 10 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:36,680 And so there was a study that was like, okay, this seems to be a phenomenon, but like, how does it actually impact women's performance? 11 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:43,040 And so they took a bunch of women and had them do math problems, and half of the group was recorded when they were doing it, and the other half was not. 12 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:50,920 The results of the study showed that women actually did not have a reduction in their ability to get stuff done under the effects of a presumed male gaze. 13 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,440 However, they did note that they felt more objectified. 14 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:59,240 But double, however, the women in the non-recorded group also felt self-objectified. 15 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:00,200 So what have we learned? 16 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:08,280 Well, for one, women are over-objectified and have learned hella coping strategies, which is just more extra things you have to do to be a woman. 17 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:12,160 It basically just tells us that women have a whole lot of shit to deal with. 18 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:12,960 Who'da thunk it? 19 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,800 Joe Biden is reading the room real well right now. 20 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:21,640 It's an election year in the US, and one of the frontrunner candidates for the presidency wants to completely shut down the border. 21 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:22,880 His name is Joe Biden. 22 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,280 I mean, Trump, obviously Trump does too. 23 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:33,880 But Biden has made a formal statement saying that he would shut down the border on day one if Congress passes the bill they're currently bickering about, which would give him the ability to do that. 24 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,920 Here is a quote from Whitehouse.gov. 25 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:43,040 Quote, it would give me, as president, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. 26 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:47,280 And given that authority, I would use it the day I signed the bill into law. 27 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:52,800 Now, the bill does include provisions about speeding up asylum requests and whatnot, which is a thing that we should have. 28 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,040 But also, this is stupid. 29 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:06,840 Hey, y'all, I know I'm deeply unpopular with my own party right now, but what if we also started using talking points from the other party, while maintaining the notion that we are different from the other party? 30 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:08,120 Anyway, borders are fake. 31 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,720 Ladies, we don't see you. 32 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,440 All right, women, let's do another study about how your life kind of sucks. 33 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:21,960 So if you're not familiar with endometriosis, it is an affliction that affects a lot of women. 34 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:25,720 Where basically their body wants to kill them whenever they menstruate. 35 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:32,880 It is a condition that causes egregious pain, both during your period and also just kind of all the time if you've got a really bad case. 36 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:40,800 It is also a condition that doctors seem to just not acknowledge because women have been dealing with not being heard for years. 37 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,880 They'll go to the doctor and be like, hi, I'm in constant egregious pain. 38 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:47,640 And the doctor's like, eh, I think you're making that up. 39 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:48,200 Prove it. 40 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,720 Or they'll be like, yeah, it's just irritable bowel syndrome. 41 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:51,320 Deal with it. 42 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:58,040 And so a recent study in the UK took a look at 33 different women with endometriosis and their experience in trying to get care for it. 43 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,760 And the results are not wonderful, but deeply expected. 44 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:03,800 The common theme was that they would go to a doctor. 45 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:08,800 The doctor would be like, you're exaggerating or it's in your head or it's this other thing or I don't care. 46 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:13,240 Some women would have to drive hours just to find a specialist that would be like, oh, yeah, that's a real thing. 47 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:14,360 And we can work on it with you. 48 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:19,240 Or if you're not driving hours, you're waiting years to finally find someone who can help you. 49 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,080 This is not a rare condition. 50 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,600 I know several women with endometriosis. 51 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:26,720 Like, they're all around us. 52 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:27,800 They are among us. 53 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:29,840 Is that meme still relevant? 54 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,600 Anyway, all of this is just basically showing us again. 55 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:36,840 I'm sorry, women, but at least people are starting to learn more about it. 56 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,160 And hey, maybe you learned a little bit too. 57 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:44,320 But perhaps we can finally move on from, you know, like doing egregious things against women. 58 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,360 No, never mind. 59 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:47,440 Let's keep it rolling. 60 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:48,560 Twitter has had a moment. 61 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,920 Not a good moment, but a moment. 62 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:57,120 AI generated nude images of Taylor Swift have been circulating around Twitter after somebody posted them. 63 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,720 And then Twitter did nothing about it. 64 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:03,560 They did nothing about it because D-Lot Musk has essentially fired the entirety of their trust and safety team. 65 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:08,400 And so it just sort of languished for a while until eventually Taylor Swift fans took it into their own hands 66 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,680 and just started flooding Twitter with posts trying to drown out the images. 67 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:17,240 And then eventually, Twitter did the big brain move of just blocking all searches for the name Taylor Swift. 68 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:25,120 Damn, if only there was like infrastructure and entire teams whose whole purpose was to focus on trying to prevent stuff like this from happening. 69 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,480 Oh, and speaking of preventing stuff like this from happening, 70 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:34,360 the CEO of Microsoft made a statement after it came out that the person who made these images used Microsoft's AI tools to generate them. 71 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:45,320 He was like, dang, oh, that's that sucks, you know, but we've got we've got some teams who are working real hard to try to make it so that you can't abuse women with our tools. 72 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:53,400 Here's a thought. Maybe if you are a massive company and you put out a product that lets people generate nude imagery against other people's will, 73 00:04:53,440 --> 00:05:01,560 you should face criminal charges instead of, I don't know, getting a seat at the table of an AI regulatory board for the federal government. 74 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:02,400 Just a thought. 75 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,640 Today's moon phase is a double decker turkey club with spicy mayo. 76 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:11,160 Your luck will increase throughout the day, but only if you tell a friend you love them. 77 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,400 Walk in the light of the moon. 78 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:13,960 Cool. 79 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,840 Lightning round. A church pastor got rich off of crypto scams and said that God told him to do it. 80 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,640 Japan successfully landed on the moon. 81 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,800 A woman stole a horse and buggy from a Walmart parking lot. 82 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:27,040 I'm not even mad. 83 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,200 This is these are the headlines I look for. 84 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:34,360 If you've been living under a rock, there's a new game out called Pal World that looks a lot like Pokemon with guns. 85 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:38,280 Nintendo has put out a statement saying that they are aware of it and looking into it. 86 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaking of Nintendo, there are rumors of the Switch 2 coming out potentially this year with a larger screen and more beef. 87 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:54,760 Although it's not hard to have more beef than the original Switch, which came out like many years ago and is essentially less powerful than a phone from the same time period. 88 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:59,040 Texas is out here saber rattling again about trying to secede and become their own nation or whatever. 89 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:00,360 It's they do this. 90 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:01,760 This is what Texas does. 91 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,200 I wouldn't get too up in arms about a civil war just yet. 92 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:08,400 Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the Republican primary because he sucks. 93 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:12,800 Three US military service members were killed in a drone strike in Jordan. 94 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:14,000 What were they doing there, Joe? 95 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,320 Hey, Joe, why are we there? 96 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,680 Maybe they should maybe we should just not be there. 97 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:19,480 Hey, Joe. 98 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,440 Weird. I bet no other country has had to deal with drone strikes. 99 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:31,520 After newsletter platform sub stack doubled down on hosting Nazi content, a bunch of publications have moved off the platform, including their biggest publications like platformer. 100 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:38,160 There's a new covid pill in the works that's apparently going to be effective for people who are not just high risk patients. 101 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:38,720 Pretty high. 102 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:46,640 Microsoft is laying off 1900 employees from their gaming division because let's just got to keep got to keep the layoffs going. 103 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:52,640 As Japan successfully landed on the moon, a private company in the US also attempted to land on the moon, and it didn't work. 104 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,200 They the mission failed pretty bad. 105 00:06:54,200 --> 00:07:03,200 Donald Trump has been found liable for defamation by a jury of his peers, and they are now requesting that he pay about 83 million dollars in fines. 106 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaking of Trump and his ilk, WWE founder Vince McMahon has been accused of sex trafficking. 107 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:18,560 And finally, for today, a movie studio tried to pay out a payment to Tom Holland, but accidentally sent it to Tom Hollander, which I assume is just the Pokemon evolution of Tom Holland. 108 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,960 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 109 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:31,280 This stuff keeps happening online for sources, bonus content and a lollipop the size of your head. 110 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,360 Y'all, it is so good to be back. 111 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,200 I really appreciate the support while I was gone. 112 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,400 It made all of the difference. 113 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:39,680 My name is Endeavorance. 114 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:41,280 I'll be back on Thursday. 115 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:52,800 Take care and be well.