Fangirls Just Wanna Have Fun

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Fangirls Just Wanna Have Fun

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Nov 22, 2019

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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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Nov 22, 2019

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Fangirls Just Wanna Have Fun

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