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Fingers crossed it goes smoothly, I know she is taking some heat at the moment with not show related stuff. Hopefully people that are respectful of different people's views make up the vast majority of people who watch it and ask questions/send comments.

I'll probably catch up on it later.

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2 hours ago, mirs1 said:

Those live-chat are always fun...If you are not around for 11 am PST time (6-7 PM in Europe), you can catch up later, on Mayim's FB page!

I'll probably catch up on it later, as in live the comments are posted too fast and I get lost quickly, lol. Mayim is so cool for doing this live sessions though.

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Mayim spoke at OSU (Ohio State University) this evening....

missmayim Thank you #osu for listening to me talk to you for 2 hours. !!! Fantastic questions. Israel, science, acting, feminism, civil rights. Yes to all.

 

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Mayim's new vlog

It has gotten viral on FB, and Mayim seems very happy for that. When she wrote this post

it had 2.5 million views, now they are 4 millions. TBH, I don't particularly agree with what she says here, but I'm glad her YT channel is having more visibility. 

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51 minutes ago, mirs1 said:

It has gotten viral on FB, and Mayim seems very happy for that. When she wrote this post

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it had 2.5 million views, now they are 4 millions. TBH, I don't particularly agree with what she says here, but I'm glad her YT channel is having more visibility. 

4.1 million views now - that really struck a cord it seems. It's an issue that I've seem pop up periodically in feminist circles and I actually agree with it on principle. But as always context matters and there are casual situations where "girl" still works better, same as "boy" for that matter. Much like we call the characters on the show "the girls" and "the boys" - there's equal treatment here.

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1 hour ago, April said:

4.1 million views now - that really struck a cord it seems. It's an issue that I've seem pop up periodically in feminist circles and I actually agree with it on principle. But as always context matters and there are casual situations where "girl" still works better, same as "boy" for that matter. Much like we call the characters on the show "the girls" and "the boys" - there's equal treatment here.

Yes, exactly, I also think it mainly depends on the context. For example, in the same situation Mayim described in the video, with reversed roles,  if I'm at a bar and I notice a handsome fellow, I say to my friends "Looks at that nice boy", even if he is not in his prime anymore. Probably Italian here helps to avoid the issue because we have the same word for "boy" and "guy", but still... There are situations in which the words boy/girl are inappropriate, but as long as there is equal treatment and there is no intention of downplaying the recipient of those words, I don't see the big deal. As you said, I'm many informal situations they "work" even better than woman/man.

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On 26.3.2017 at 1:04 AM, mirs1 said:

Yes, exactly, I also think it mainly depends on the context. For example, in the same situation Mayim described in the video, with reversed roles,  if I'm at a bar and I notice a handsome fellow, I say to my friends "Looks at that nice boy", even if he is not in his prime anymore. Probably Italian here helps to avoid the issue because we have the same word for "boy" and "guy", but still... There are situations in which the words boy/girl are inappropriate, but as long as there is equal treatment and there is no intention of downplaying the recipient of those words, I don't see the big deal. As you said, I'm many informal situations they "work" even better than woman/man.

I think one of the problems is that "girl" became the parallel of "guy". There is "boy", "guy" and "man", "girl", ? and "woman". Of course you could go with "woman" to fill in but it still wouldn't be an exact parallel. 

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