Archive - Bitchy History

The Myth of Male Logic and Other Fairy Tales About History

I woke up to a comment this morning that was such a rage-inducing little artifact of the patriarchy that I briefly considered throwing my phone into the…

Jan 22 • ProfessorMeredith

TV Only Lets You Have an Abortion If You’re Dying

Author’s note:

Jan 20 • ProfessorMeredith

No One Is Coming to Save Us: The Combahee River Collective

Listen now | When pundits complain that “identity politics is ruining everything,” they’re accidentally name-dropping a group of Black lesbian feminists…

Jan 18 • ProfessorMeredith

28:43

"Where Are the Potatoes?" The Gender Politics of “Helping”

You are getting an article this week, because I didn’t have time to finish recording the podcast.

Jan 11 • ProfessorMeredith

Heresy, Sedition, and Other Names for Women Talking

Listen now | Quaker Women and Why Feminism Isn't a Side Quest in History

Jan 4 • ProfessorMeredith

39:48

December 2025

Boldly Going Nowhere: Star Trek's Nostalgia Addiction

And Why It's Anti-Star Trek

Published on Perspectives on Pop Culture • Dec 26, 2025

Inconceivable: A Field Guide to the Worst Men You’ve Ever Met

How The Princess Bride Predicted the Manosphere

Dec 18, 2025 • ProfessorMeredith

Is There Room in Feminism for Assholes?

Or: how “be decent” gets reframed as “authoritarianism” the second women stop coddling you.

Dec 17, 2025 • ProfessorMeredith

“As You Wish": In Which Love Is More Than Romance

The Many Loves Inside The Princess Bride

Dec 15, 2025 • ProfessorMeredith

The Long Realignment and the Short Attention Span of the Internet

History is a process, not a screenshot.

Dec 8, 2025 • ProfessorMeredith

Cookies, Community, and Conspiracy Theories: The Culture Wars over Girl Scouts

Every few years, the Girl Scouts accidentally start a culture war.

Dec 7, 2025 • ProfessorMeredith

36:23

The White House We Longed For (and Never Really Had)

What early West Wing seasons reveal about the America that wanted to believe adults were in charge

Published on Perspectives on Pop Culture • Dec 6, 2025

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