I watch YouTube when I want to have some downtime... And I like my YouTube to be fun.
I thought I would share some female YouTubers I've been enjoying recently, I'd love to hear other people's recommendations!
If you like Nick DiRamio or Mike's Mic, TV and film review/comedy videos try -
Jamie French
She reviews bad and nostalgic films, including skits where she green screens herself into scenes from the films. She points out production errors, lazy tropes and is pretty fun. The series started out being "movies and make up" but the make up is easy to ignore and as she's done more movie review videos she seems to be doing the on-screen make up less and less.
Recommended videos -
Sleepover is a dumpster fire
I think I found the worst dance movie of all time
Kierra loves TV
Kierra summarises and discusses characters and tropes in her favourite TV shows. Her channel is pretty new, only 7 months old, and while i don't watch her videos on family guy, in her other videos she has a great voice and interesting perspectives on early 2000s TV - I enjoy her videos on Gilmore girls and Sex and the City
Recommended videos
Why everybody hates Carrie Bradshaw
The manipulation of Emily Gilmore
If you like Todd in the Shadows or other deep dives into musicians, one hit wonders, artists who didn't make it, try -
Naomi Cannibal
Naomi talks about a range of topics including celebrity culture and TV shows, but I particularly enjoy her videos about musicians careers and history.
Recommended videos -
One album wonders : label conflicts and the rise of streaming
Teairra Mari - the girl who was almost Rihanna
If you like Stuart Hicks or Architecture related videos try -
Belinda Carr
Belinda makes videos about architecture and modern building techniques and trends. I find her videos to be very informative, even if you're not that into architecture I recommend giving her a try!Recommended videos -
Bamboo Vs cork flooring - everything you need to know
How to build straw bale houses - pros and cons
If you like day in the life, spending challenges and solo travel try -
Clickfortaz
I love Taz's videos, she is silly, very honest and quite naïve. Her friendship with her childhood friend Moon is really lovely, but most of her videos are just Taz trying new things. She has talked a lot about her mental health and has published and performed her poetry.
Recommended videos -
I tried to bake a cake with no recipe
Living in a treehouse for 48 hours
If you like furniture restoration or carpentry like Blacktail Studio try
Transcend Furniture Gallery
Angie repairs, restores and up cycles furniture. The videos are informative but also very calm and satisfying and I really like her work!
Mark Hamill was a guest at the german television show Disco on ZDF (second largest public-service proadcaster) in the ‘80s. And… yeah… he was apparently made to do this…
People with siblings are so genuinely scary they're just constantly asking you things like "you never played 3-Minute Eye Gouge as a kid? you never played Fireplace Chase? you never played Actual Serial Killer?"
Rebecca Whitehurst never wants to set foot in a school again.She also wants all teachers, especially female ones, to wear bodycams, to have
Rebecca Whitehurst never wants to set foot in a school again.
She also wants all teachers, especially female ones, to wear bodycams, to have CCTV in every classroom and for teachers to operate in pairs. “I think teachers should never be alone with children, there should always be someone else there. I know it is dramatic but I don’t want what happened to me to ever happen to anyone else,” she said.
The views of Whitehurst, who is married with two children and has been a modern languages teacher for more than ten years, have been shaped by what she describes as a “modern horror story”.
Last week the 46-year-old wept as a jury at Manchester’s Minshull Street crown court cleared her of two charges of sexual activity with a child and one of sexual communications. She had been accused of a sexual act with a 15-year-old pupil in the back of her Volvo and of sending him explicit texts, including a photograph of her breasts.
The court heard that the teenager, who had declared he was in love with Whitehurst, became obsessed with her and lied about or faked the messages. The boy, who watched pornography involving older women, assaulted her in her classroom and sent an abusive message to her daughter, the court was told.
The family spent £43,000 fighting the case, which dragged on for three years. If convicted she would have faced up to 14 years’ in jail.
Speaking from her home in Cheshire where her husband, Billy, an accountant, has “been unbelievably supportive”, she said her experience at times felt like a television drama.
It unfolded against the backdrop of a rising number of schoolboys watching online pornography, and pupils’ mental health becoming a frontline problem for many schools.
Last year, an Ofsted report found 90 per cent of girls and 50 per cent of boys polled by the schools inspectorate said they had been sent explicit pictures and messages they did not wish to see. A survey for the British Board of Film Classification last year found that almost half of 16 and 17-year-olds had recently seen pornography. Figures from NHS Digital found that one in six children in England had a probable mental health disorder last year, up from one in nine in 2017.
Whitehurst’s ordeal started in April 2019. The boys’ school where she taught French, German and Spanish had paid for her to attend a three-day course on mindfulness. She was asked to teach the subject — not to lower the stress of high-achieving children in the run-up to exams, which she had suggested, but to children on the inclusion register, who have special educational needs and disabilities. “I said yes because I am that sort of person,” the Sheffield University graduate said, but admitted to being nervous about teaching a “wishy washy” subject to children who may have experienced significant trauma.
In an early session with the group of ten boys the 15-year-old who would go on to accuse her said he was hearing voices in his head telling him to kill someone. “I thought OMG,” she said. “As soon as I could I reported it on our safeguarding system . . . I reported it on there and thought someone would talk to me about it, but no one did.”
As the sessions continued the teenager “latched” onto Whitehurst, who tried to give him “sensible advice” via the school’s email system.
He talked about being in a gang and, in an area of the city linked to the Manchester bomber, Whitehurst also feared he was at risk of getting involved in terrorism. When he started to talk about how he had “this big secret” and she was the only person he could tell it to, she made, she admits, a critical mistake.
“He had said he wants to kill people and is in a gang,” she said. “He was talking about going to the mosque. All these things were adding up in my head. I thought there was a bigger picture and I would find out about it and report it.
“I tried to get him to talk to staff who were better trained in such matters but he said no. He said he did not trust the school email which we were already communicating on. In one email thread he emailed me a ghost emoji and I realised he meant he wanted to tell me the secret on Snapchat. I downloaded Snapchat on purpose because I thought he was going to give me this big secret.”
Whitehurst said the secret was nothing to do with terrorism: “The secret was he was in love with me. I realised I had made an idiot of myself. I told him nothing like that was ever going to happen and there had been a misunderstanding. I told him I had to tell the school. He would say ‘they are not going to believe you’ and that I had made a mistake in giving him my Snapchat username. I should have reported it but I did not and I know now that that was an error.”
A few weeks later the teenager came into Whitehurst’s classroom when she was alone. He tried to force his tongue into her mouth, touched her intimately, slapped her face and spat at her. She tried to push him away, which he told the court he thought was encouragement.
“I do not think he knew how bad it was what he did; I know porn was available to him, he sent me lots of links which I never opened but I have an idea of what he watched,” she said. “I think he thought slapping me and spitting at me was sexy in some way.” Again, she did not report the assault. Whitehurst admits she was scared and also “again I thought I would be held responsible as I am the adult and he is the child”, but from then on things got steadily worse.
Over the coming weeks he gave her a necklace and sent naked images of himself which she deleted. He “begged” her to meet him outside school. Still worried about his state of mind, she met him several times in public places, including at a charity run she was doing in a Manchester park where she thought there was no risk of him “launching himself at her”.
At school Whitehurst volunteered for extra duties to ensure she was not alone. She applied for jobs in other schools.
In September 2019 she broke down in the playground when a colleague asked her if she was OK: “I said no and blurted it all out. She said she would have to take this to the head teacher.”
Whitehurst agreed with the head teacher that the matter would be reported to the police and the local authority safeguarding officer and that she would be suspended pending an inquiry. “My logic was, they will understand,” she said. “They will know he is difficult and that I wanted to help but mismanaged things.”
Whitehurst was shocked in her first police interview, two months later, when she heard that the boy had accused her of having sexual activity with him and sending him photos of her breasts.
The pandemic meant that the investigation dragged on. She did not hear anything until last year when police said they had downloaded data from both the phones, including a screenshot of a fake text conversation in whch she appeared to be suggesting sexual acts with the teenager outdoors.
“I thought, ‘I never sent those’. They did not look right. They were obviously fake. The language did not add up. I did not need a professor of linguistics to say that was not me,” she said.
“It was extraordinary that what he said was believed and I was not. He said it was consensual. And we were in love.
“I kept thinking the police will look at all this properly, tell me this will be dropped and say, ‘You poor woman’.”
As it became clear that the case would go to court Whitehurst switched lawyers. Her new team instructed an expert witness to look at the downloaded data from both phones. His report — which cost the family £8,000 — made clear there was no evidence that a photo of her breasts or a text suggesting outdoor sex acts had been sent by her or received by the teenager. Still the case was not dropped.
A week before court, Whitehurst says “calm descended”. She decided not to wear a face mask or hide her face and be “as brave as I could be”.
By video link the teenager gave contradictory evidence and admitted the assault on Whitehurst. The jury took less than three hours to acquit her.
Whitehurst’s case may be extreme but it is not isolated. There is a website on which teachers share dozens of accounts of false allegations. Teaching unions called last year for pupils who make them to be excluded and for fully funded mental health programmes aimed at boys.
Christian Harbinson of the law firm Thompsons solicitors, which represented Whitehurst, said: “An underfunded criminal justice system is unable to cope and that stretches out the agony for innocent people like Rebecca. It’s taken almost three years, since the allegations were first made, for her to clear her name, during which time Rebecca’s life has been on hold and her family have had to deal with an unimaginable level of stress and worry.”
Asked whether the teenager, now 18, would face an inquiry for possible criminal offences, Greater Manchester police said it had no intention to investigate “the child victim in this case”.
this heavily implied that a very large amount, if not a majority, of false student sexual assault allegations against teachers are male students against female teachers, NOT female students against male teachers. i imagine most of them are male students bragging and lying that they 'slept with the hot teacher', as well as sexually harassing female teachers, and then when it gets noticed or reported, they lie and say that the teacher was mutually involved. and porn plays a massive part.
I thought exactly the same! I hope nobody (*cough* MRAs) will use this for some kind of "false accusations are on the rise" argument because I bet it's almost exclusively teenage boys doing this to female teachers...
Soo my guilty pleasure is this show on german TV "the perfect dinner", where over the span of a working week "ordinary people" cook for each other and host an evening.
This week is "diversity week" because of pride month.
Day 1 yesterday the host was trans man #1 (who came out over 10 years ago and "fully" transitioned and has a male partner. He seems rather reasonable): Max made everything vegan and was a very good host.
He boasted about being the first trans man to be voted for "Mr. Gay" which is..whatever.
He got a very high rating - 38/40 which is very high for this show.
Day 2 was "gender fluid" Kathy, 24 years old, starting the guest round by showing pictures of herself as a child with long hair and talking about her gender identity connected to cutting her hair.
She wears lots of makeup, for the evening as a host she wears what she herself calls a "waiters outfit" (white button up, black tie, black jackett.
Her cooking seems "ok", very considerate (all vegan, no soy, no nuts...) but all in all the guests seemed as if they would have liked more "homemade" stuff (e.g. the gnocci and other items on the menu were store bought).
In her intro she explained that she began her transition very early. She describes that when in kindergarten she already liked dressing in "princess dresses" and playing with dolls (so that obv means you cannot be a boy!).
Evening starts now with shots, I'll update this later.
Soo my guilty pleasure is this show on german TV "the perfect dinner", where over the span of a working week "ordinary people" cook for each other and host an evening.
This week is "diversity week" because of pride month.
Day 1 yesterday the host was trans man #1 (who came out over 10 years ago and "fully" transitioned and has a male partner. He seems rather reasonable): Max made everything vegan and was a very good host.
He boasted about being the first trans man to be voted for "Mr. Gay" which is..whatever.
He got a very high rating - 38/40 which is very high for this show.
Day 2 was "gender fluid" Kathy, 24 years old, starting the guest round by showing pictures of herself as a child with long hair and talking about her gender identity connected to cutting her hair.
She wears lots of makeup, for the evening as a host she wears what she herself calls a "waiters outfit" (white button up, black tie, black jackett.
Her cooking seems "ok", very considerate (all vegan, no soy, no nuts...) but all in all the guests seemed as if they would have liked more "homemade" stuff (e.g. the gnocci and other items on the menu were store bought).
In her intro she explained that she began her transition very early. She describes that when in kindergarten she already liked dressing in "princess dresses" and playing with dolls (so that obv means you cannot be a boy!).
Evening starts now with shots, I'll update this later.
Soo my guilty pleasure is this show on german TV "the perfect dinner", where over the span of a working week "ordinary people" cook for each other and host an evening.
This week is "diversity week" because of pride month.
Day 1 yesterday the host was trans man #1 (who came out over 10 years ago and "fully" transitioned and has a male partner. He seems rather reasonable): Max made everything vegan and was a very good host.
He boasted about being the first trans man to be voted for "Mr. Gay" which is..whatever.
He got a very high rating - 38/40 which is very high for this show.
Day 2 was "gender fluid" Kathy, 24 years old, starting the guest round by showing pictures of herself as a child with long hair and talking about her gender identity connected to cutting her hair.
She wears lots of makeup, for the evening as a host she wears what she herself calls a "waiters outfit" (white button up, black tie, black jackett.
Her cooking seems "ok", very considerate (all vegan, no soy, no nuts...) but all in all the guests seemed as if they would have liked more "homemade" stuff (e.g. the gnocci and other items on the menu were store bought).
In her intro she explained that she began her transition very early. She describes that when in kindergarten she already liked dressing in "princess dresses" and playing with dolls (so that obv means you cannot be a boy!).
Evening starts now with shots, I'll update this later.
Soo my guilty pleasure is this show on german TV "the perfect dinner", where over the span of a working week "ordinary people" cook for each other and host an evening.
This week is "diversity week" because of pride month.
Day 1 yesterday the host was trans man #1 (who came out over 10 years ago and "fully" transitioned and has a male partner. He seems rather reasonable): Max made everything vegan and was a very good host.
He boasted about being the first trans man to be voted for "Mr. Gay" which is..whatever.
He got a very high rating - 38/40 which is very high for this show.
Day 2 was "gender fluid" Kathy, 24 years old, starting the guest round by showing pictures of herself as a child with long hair and talking about her gender identity connected to cutting her hair.
She wears lots of makeup, for the evening as a host she wears what she herself calls a "waiters outfit" (white button up, black tie, black jackett.
Her cooking seems "ok", very considerate (all vegan, no soy, no nuts...) but all in all the guests seemed as if they would have liked more "homemade" stuff (e.g. the gnocci and other items on the menu were store bought).
Soo my guilty pleasure is this show on german TV "the perfect dinner", where over the span of a working week "ordinary people" cook for each other and host an evening.
This week is "diversity week" because of pride month.
Day 1 yesterday the host was trans man #1 (who came out over 10 years ago and "fully" transitioned and has a male partner. He seems rather reasonable): Max made everything vegan and was a very good host.
He boasted about being the first trans man to be voted for "Mr. Gay" which is..whatever.
He got a very high rating - 38/40 which is very high for this show.
Soo my guilty pleasure is this show on german TV "the perfect dinner", where over the span of a working week "ordinary people" cook for each other and host an evening.
This week is "diversity week" because of pride month.
German culture 15 years ago was watching a weird game show with your parents and cringe at the moment when the host tried to vibe with the music act but still watching because you know the band was gonne be a guest on the couch. Which was the exact moment your parents went to the loo...
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