Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of men might think women's history doesn't affect them, but
Speaker 1: it turns out women throughout history have invented some of
Speaker 1: men's favorite things. For example, Trevor, what's the number one
Speaker 1: thing that men can't live without? I'll give you a hand.
Speaker 1: It starts with the bee you whip him out during
Speaker 1: spring break? Beer No No Boobs is a brand of
Speaker 1: South African beer. That's okay. Well, beer is a five
Speaker 1: d and thirty billion dollar industry, mostly thanks to men,
Speaker 1: and who can blame them for loving beer with all
Speaker 1: those macho ads full of sexy women desperate to have
Speaker 1: sexy sex. Oh Grandpa, your social Security check is so big,
Speaker 1: you know. But it turns out Mesopotamian women were the
Speaker 1: ones who invented this man juice. Wait, sorry, no, that
Speaker 1: doesn't sound right. Um uh this man fluid? Yeah, that's better,
Speaker 1: but it's true. Seven thousand years ago, beer was considered
Speaker 1: a gift from a goddess and only women were entrusted
Speaker 1: with making it, which is why I no longer pay
Speaker 1: for beer when I go out. You know, instead of
Speaker 1: signing my bar tab, I just write you're welcome. That's
Speaker 1: actually a really cool thing. I mean, not you're stealing drinks,
Speaker 1: but the invention of beer. Yeah. No, And and that's
Speaker 1: not all. A woman helped create. One of the things
Speaker 1: men think they can do when they're drunk. Kung fu.
Speaker 1: Society has always told us what that that it's meant
Speaker 1: for men, you know, in pandas. But guess what. Bruce Lee,
Speaker 1: the most famous kung fuur of all time, got his
Speaker 1: whole style of kung fu from from a woman. In
Speaker 1: the seventeen hundreds, Anne by the name of ing Moy
Speaker 1: developed her method after teaching a female student how to
Speaker 1: fight off a creepy guy. You know, these days you
Speaker 1: can just swipe left, but back then you had to
Speaker 1: literally swipe left. That's yeah, that's why I'm all of
Speaker 1: these things women's history up. Like I didn't know that
Speaker 1: a nun helped invents kung fu? Well, I mean it's
Speaker 1: not that crazy. Nuns are badass. Remember that none in
Speaker 1: the nineties who took down one arena's biggest monsters. And
Speaker 1: she still had time to teach acquire some motown classics,
Speaker 1: isn't isn't that susact? Yeah, it's my favorite documentary and
Speaker 1: speaking of fighting. It was this woman, Lisa Mightner, who
Speaker 1: discovered nuclear fission. I'm sorry, nuclear fission? What is that?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Seriously, Trevor, you don't know what nuclear
Speaker 1: fission is. Everyone knows it's it's when you you fission
Speaker 1: the nuclear you know, whatever the point is. Her discovery
Speaker 1: of nuclear fission became the basis for all nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1: So without her, there are no nuclear bombs, and without
Speaker 1: nuclear bombs, world leaders would have no way of proving
Speaker 1: how big their dicks are. To listen, fellas, the next
Speaker 1: time you're butt chugging a PBR or start a bar
Speaker 1: fight or drop a nuke, remember all of the women
Speaker 1: who made it possible, and honor them by not doing
Speaker 1: any of that dumb ship in the first place. Athletes
Speaker 1: they're good at running, jumping, and getting getting ahead. But
Speaker 1: some athletes are also trailblazers for justice and pioneers for change,
Speaker 1: like Muhammad Ali protesting the Vietnam War, or Colin Kaepernick
Speaker 1: kneeling during the anthem or j R. Smith missing all
Speaker 1: those jump shots. I see what you're saying, Jr. No justice,
Speaker 1: no threes. But today I want to talk about the
Speaker 1: activist female athletes who have been erased from the history books.
Speaker 1: Women like track star Rose Robinson long before kath Neil,
Speaker 1: to protest police brutality. Rose refused to stand for the
Speaker 1: flag and anthem during the nineteen fifty nine Pan American
Speaker 1: Games because she felt they represented war injustice and hypocrisy.
Speaker 1: Her activism was another example of black women in the
Speaker 1: nineteen fifties perfecting the art of sitting when and where
Speaker 1: they weren't supposed to, whether it was sitting at the
Speaker 1: front of the bus, the whites only section of a restaurant,
Speaker 1: or just sitting around judging white people dancing. Basically, we
Speaker 1: were experts at using our behinds to save you to
Speaker 1: the system. It wasn't long after the protest that the
Speaker 1: I R. S came for Rose for tax evasion. Of
Speaker 1: course they did. She ended up going to jail and
Speaker 1: missing the nineteen sixty Olympic Games, the same games where
Speaker 1: a young unknown athlete named Cassius Clay broke out onto
Speaker 1: the world stage. History may have been different if the
Speaker 1: government had Wesley sniped Robinson over three hundred and eighty dollars.
Speaker 1: Fast forward to a couple of Olympics later, and another
Speaker 1: brave athlete would have her protest overlooked. Wroyomi Attias was
Speaker 1: the first athlete and Olympic history, male or female, to
Speaker 1: win gold medals and consecutive hundred of an accomplishment that
Speaker 1: took two decades to beat. And that's before all these
Speaker 1: modern improvements in science and nutrition and vegetables. When Tian
Speaker 1: set this record, they hadn't even invented kale yet. And
Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixty Olympics, Wyomi had protested racial segregation
Speaker 1: by wearing black shorts instead of her uniform shorts. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: her protest did not get the coverage that should have,
Speaker 1: and no one noticed, and part of that was the
Speaker 1: media's fault. But maybe she could have done something a
Speaker 1: bit more flashy. If your protests involves clothes, is either
Speaker 1: got to be loundclothes or no clothes. If you're running
Speaker 1: with no bottoms, oh you've got people's attention. Finally, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Alison Phelix, one of the greatest sprinters to
Speaker 1: ever compete in the Olympics. Phelix was good enough to
Speaker 1: get a Nike sponsorship until when she got pregnant. Then
Speaker 1: during contract negotiations, Nike offered her a brand new deal
Speaker 1: with a seventy percent pay cut, which is some bullshit.
Speaker 1: They should have given her a hun your present more.
Speaker 1: She's literally growing another sprinter. If it was me, I
Speaker 1: would have rolled up a knife and Burnett bish Brown.
Speaker 1: But Allison is classic, you know. So she wrote an
Speaker 1: op ed in the New York Times to let the
Speaker 1: sneaker heads know what was up. The resulting outrage forced
Speaker 1: Nike to stop reducing endorsements based on an athlete getting pregnant.
Speaker 1: There was even a congressional inquiry into Nike's maternity policies
Speaker 1: for athletes. And if you're Nike, you know you need
Speaker 1: to make changes to policy when Congress is the one
Speaker 1: telling you to just do it. So the next time
Speaker 1: you think about athletes taking a stand, don't forget the ladies.
Speaker 1: They're racking up the bling and fighting the power at
Speaker 1: the same time. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm about
Speaker 1: to go do my own bottomless protests outside Indris Elba's house.
Speaker 1: What am I protesting his wife? I like to celebrate
Speaker 1: the stories of impressive women that have been overlooked. It's
Speaker 1: not history, it's his story. Took me forever to come
Speaker 1: up with that, you know, DESSI I honestly, have learned
Speaker 1: so much already this month about women who have done
Speaker 1: great things in history. Okay, yeah, but you see, everyone
Speaker 1: pays attention to the women who did great things, but
Speaker 1: no one speaks about women who did bad things. For example,
Speaker 1: everyone's heard of Benedict Arnold, right, he was the general
Speaker 1: who betrayed America during the Revolution, the greatest treason in
Speaker 1: our history up until Tristan Thompson. But you probably haven't
Speaker 1: heard of Benedict's wife, Peggy ship In Arnold. Now, she
Speaker 1: was actually the one who encouraged him to turn on
Speaker 1: America and help plan his treason with British officials. You know.
Speaker 1: It's it's like they say, the couple that betrays together
Speaker 1: stays together, and there's nothing hotter than treason sex. Trust me,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means, but that is
Speaker 1: really fascinating, DESSI I had no idea about the role
Speaker 1: that she played. Of course you didn't, You're a man.
Speaker 1: I didn't know either. I saw it on his snapple
Speaker 1: cap at lunch today. Yeah, here's another one. We all
Speaker 1: know who Alexander the Great was, the ruthless king, bloodthirsty conqueror.
Speaker 1: Sideburns afficionado. But he only got to do all of
Speaker 1: that because of a woman, his mom, Queen Olympius. She
Speaker 1: wanted her son to be king so bad she had
Speaker 1: her husband and his other wife assassinated. She schemed so
Speaker 1: her child could have a better life like a Macedonian aunt. Becky.
Speaker 1: You know, actually Olympius inspired me to break into my
Speaker 1: son's school and destroy the other kids science projects. Sorry,
Speaker 1: someone trashed your volcano, Timmy, But I too, am raising
Speaker 1: a kings. You can't break into a school and vandalized
Speaker 1: children's homework. Oh wow, Trevor, you're gonna tell a woman
Speaker 1: what she can and can't do with her body. Wait, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: what you did was a crime. Well you know, you
Speaker 1: know what else used to be a cry women voting?
Speaker 1: Huh right, ladies, But you know what, I'm glad you
Speaker 1: brought up crime because women can do that too. People
Speaker 1: always talk about Machine Gun Kelly, one of one of
Speaker 1: the most notorious gangsters during Prohibition, but nobody's ever heard
Speaker 1: of his wife, Katherine Kelly. She helped him scheme, she
Speaker 1: helped plan his kidnappings. She even gave him the gun
Speaker 1: he was named after. You know, before her, everyone called
Speaker 1: him finger guns. Kelly. Wow, this is really fascinating you
Speaker 1: opening my eyes. Like, even when it comes to bad things,
Speaker 1: we tend to erase the contributions of women from history. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's still happening today. Just look at Facebook fake
Speaker 1: news scandals helping Russia spread propaganda. They even sold all
Speaker 1: our dick picks to Steve Bannon. And every time something
Speaker 1: goes wrong people blame Mark Zuckerberg, But there's CEO Cheryl
Speaker 1: Sandberg deserves just as much credit. Karon's dragging his name
Speaker 1: through the mud. I am so sick of people refusing
Speaker 1: to say something bad about women on the internet. Desert.
Speaker 1: It almost sounds like you admire these bad women. I
Speaker 1: admire all women, but there is one woman I admire
Speaker 1: above all. She is my number one evil heroine. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess heroine is the number one evil heroin, but
Speaker 1: this lady comes close, Trevor. When you think of pirates,
Speaker 1: you think of Blackbeard, Captain Kid or whoever's to captain now.
Speaker 1: But the most successful pirate of all time was actually
Speaker 1: a woman, Jong Yao. In the eighteen hundreds. She had
Speaker 1: eighty thousand sailors fifteen hundred ships. It took more pirate
Speaker 1: fortune than Johnny Depps lawyers. But get this, when the
Speaker 1: Chinese navy finally caught her, she talked her way out
Speaker 1: of jail, got amnesty, and then opened a casino boom
Speaker 1: shed from being a criminal tyrant to a legal casino owner,
Speaker 1: a move historians called the reverse Donald Trump. Trevor, have
Speaker 1: you never wondered why women don't get the historic credit
Speaker 1: they deserve? The sexism statues, Trevor, women don't have as
Speaker 1: many statues and as men. In fact, nationwide, only eight
Speaker 1: percent of outdoor statues are of women. Wow, how did
Speaker 1: you know that? Statistics at Drake Snapple? I read Internet,
Speaker 1: corn Dog, and I've seen it for myself. I was
Speaker 1: walking through Central Park the other day under the rest
Speaker 1: and arsaw statues of Alexander Hamilton's Christopher Columbus, William Shakespeare,
Speaker 1: all famous men from history. But it comes to women.
Speaker 1: There's only two statues in Central Park, Alice in Wonderland
Speaker 1: and Mother Goose, which makes no damn sense. Alice is
Speaker 1: just a white girl who took Molly, And why does
Speaker 1: Mother Goods get a statue? All she did was a ghost?
Speaker 1: I don't think that's right. Fine, she made love, no
Speaker 1: that's what okay. Anyway, do say I'm lost. How does
Speaker 1: having more statues help? Because chevor statues help us remember
Speaker 1: history when you walk past the statue and you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: MLK did have a dream. Thomas Jefferson was a complicated individual.
Speaker 1: And when you don't honor women the same way you
Speaker 1: honor men, you're leaving them out of history. That's true. Well,
Speaker 1: at least at least women have the Statue of Liberty.
Speaker 1: That's one of the most famous statues in the world.
Speaker 1: That doesn't count. We need statues the real women, not
Speaker 1: some giant French bitch holding ice cream. Now, someone like
Speaker 1: Tony Morrison, the first black woman to win the Nobel
Speaker 1: Prize for literature, or someone like Francis Perkins, the first
Speaker 1: woman appointed to a presidential cabinet, or someone like Beyoncet,
Speaker 1: the first woman to be Beyoncet. Why doesn't she have
Speaker 1: a statue. I mean she's already standing like a statue,
Speaker 1: she's read it. This was actually a great idea, But
Speaker 1: I hope you understand building thousands of statues of women
Speaker 1: is going to be difficult. I mean, statues are expensive.
Speaker 1: You know this is gonna be a project that's gonna
Speaker 1: take a lot of time. I've already done a Trevor
Speaker 1: what I've designed one statue to symbolize all women, their power,
Speaker 1: their beauty, their mystique, a flawless avatar of womanhood that
Speaker 1: anyone can look at and see themselves. Don't say that
Speaker 1: that's a statue of you, Trevor. I'm touched that you
Speaker 1: can see me in that art. No, it's literally you.
Speaker 1: It has your name on it. And also, why are
Speaker 1: you holding a baby? You don't have kids. That baby
Speaker 1: symbolizes America, okay, which women haven't carrying for far joel
Speaker 1: As Now I'm kidding this. Itges Elba's baby, because that's
Speaker 1: some history I want to make. Welcome to see pe
Speaker 1: Time the only show that's for the culture. As we
Speaker 1: end Black History Month, we look back on the accomplishments
Speaker 1: of black women. And joining me for this episode is
Speaker 1: dul Say Sloan. Thank you, Roy, But I've been here
Speaker 1: for every episode. I think you must be mistaken CP
Speaker 1: Time as a solo show. No, no, no, no. Check
Speaker 1: the tape. I was there when you talked about actors
Speaker 1: and black politicians, and I was right in front of
Speaker 1: you during the last one I apologize. My peripherals are
Speaker 1: not what they used to. Pete, don't blame the cataracts, Royal.
Speaker 1: You forgot like a bit. But it's okay. Black women
Speaker 1: have been overlooked in American history, but we've still accomplished
Speaker 1: great things like Madam C. J. Walker, America's first black
Speaker 1: woman to be a self made millionaire. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I do believe that's Aretha Franklin. Just because a Wretha
Speaker 1: has been in the first since nineteen seventy three doesn't
Speaker 1: mean she was the first millionaire. Madam C. J. Walker
Speaker 1: earned her millions in the early nineteen hundreds. That's old money.
Speaker 1: And she did it with hair care products, hair grower,
Speaker 1: scalp pointment, and of course she revolutionized the hot com
Speaker 1: h a smell of hot grease and lady Edges on
Speaker 1: a Saturday morning. You know, I have her to thank
Speaker 1: for all these scars on my ears. There's also Marie
Speaker 1: Van Britton Brown, an innovator who in nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 1: during the heart of the Civil rights movement, invented the
Speaker 1: home security system. Before heart, when someone broke in, people
Speaker 1: just yelled, a man, don't take my ship. But while
Speaker 1: her invention might have dramatically decreased theft. It didn't stop
Speaker 1: a d T from stealing the idea from her. We
Speaker 1: also can't forget may Carol Jemison, the first black woman
Speaker 1: to travel in space. You know what I've always said,
Speaker 1: don't say, is that more black people should go to space,
Speaker 1: not even for science, just for safety. There's no police
Speaker 1: up there. Facts. I just want to thank you for
Speaker 1: bringing these wonderful pieces to the show. We often forget
Speaker 1: what black women did in American history. History. We're forgetting
Speaker 1: black women now. Quick tell me who founded the Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter movement? Well, that's very easy. Everyone knows that's
Speaker 1: d Ray the man in the blue vest. No, No,
Speaker 1: the original founders were A Lisa Garza, Patrice Colors, and
Speaker 1: ocle To Matty. Were they ever wearing a blue vest? Okay?
Speaker 1: How is that supposed to know? Sound like a fashion problem.
Speaker 1: But there's only thirty minutes left here in black history,
Speaker 1: and who knows, maybe next year there won't be a
Speaker 1: need for this program because we would have reached the mountaintop.
Speaker 1: That is funny every year and this has been CP
Speaker 1: time and remember the culture. It's no secret that women's
Speaker 1: on screen portrayals have evolved throughout history. We've gone from
Speaker 1: playing secretaries being saved by James Bond all the way
Speaker 1: to nuclear scientists being saved by James Bond. But I
Speaker 1: want to focus on one specific aspect of female to pictions,
Speaker 1: the orgasm. It's when a woman is stimulated to the
Speaker 1: point of climax, causing a physical and neurological response that
Speaker 1: scientists referred to as fantastic and over the years, depicting
Speaker 1: female pleasure on screen is something that's changed more than
Speaker 1: the batteries in your vibrator. The first known female orgasm
Speaker 1: on the silver screen was in the nineteen thirty three
Speaker 1: German film Ecstasy, when Hetty Lamar took the broad Worst
Speaker 1: Express all the way to pleasure Burgh. Turns out the
Speaker 1: world wasn't ready for this. Everyone denounced it, from Hitler
Speaker 1: to the Pope, And if you ask me, the Pope
Speaker 1: has no place weighing in on sex scenes. He's celibate.
Speaker 1: I mean, when we need your opinion on the best
Speaker 1: stain removers for white fabrics, then we'll call you. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: being the first actress to climax on screen followed Hetty
Speaker 1: Lamar for the rest of her career. She was typecast
Speaker 1: as the seductress, even though she was literally the smartest
Speaker 1: person in Hollywood. Yeah, as her side hustle, she was
Speaker 1: a brilliant scientist who invented the basis for all modern
Speaker 1: wireless technology. J Without her, no one would be orgasmy
Speaker 1: because we wouldn't be able to watch porn on our
Speaker 1: cell phones in the bathroom. And that was the last
Speaker 1: big on screen female orgasm for a while, because around
Speaker 1: the same time, the Hayze Code was enforced in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: This was a set of censorship guidelines that banned movies
Speaker 1: from explicitly showing or discussing sex. Even married couples had
Speaker 1: to be shown in separate beds, or, as it's now called,
Speaker 1: the reverse chocolate factory. With the four you bedridden for
Speaker 1: the past twenty years, it takes a lot of work
Speaker 1: to keep this family going. No one was getting off.
Speaker 1: The Hayese Code finally ended in the late sixties, which,
Speaker 1: as timing goes, is like having your dry January and
Speaker 1: at an open bar in Cabo. America was embarking on
Speaker 1: a sexual revolution, so female pleasure came back on screen. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it was often treated as a novelty that existed for
Speaker 1: men's amusements, so you've got scenes like the one in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight Barbaralla where evil doctor Eyebrows over Here
Speaker 1: traps Jane Fonda and a machine that's supposed to give
Speaker 1: her orgasms until she'd dies, except that she climax is
Speaker 1: so hard she breaks the machine. Goodness. At the time
Speaker 1: it was considered a camp be sexy thing, but looking
Speaker 1: at it now, it's a violation. Remember, everyone, if you're
Speaker 1: going to put a woman in a machine that orgasms
Speaker 1: her to death, unique consent first. Another major moment came
Speaker 1: a few years later with the movie Deep Throat. It
Speaker 1: tells the story of a woman who keeps giving men
Speaker 1: oral sex because her pleasure zone is in her throat.
Speaker 1: That is not how it works, but Deep Throat became
Speaker 1: the first porno film to go mainstream and inspired both
Speaker 1: my uncles to become dennists. The female orgasms and Barbarrella
Speaker 1: and Deep Throat were basically male fantasies about how women
Speaker 1: experience pleasure, so it was appropriate that the next onstream
Speaker 1: orgasm to make a splash totally debunked those fantasies when
Speaker 1: Harry met Sally famously includes an extended scene of Meg
Speaker 1: Ryan faking an orgasm in a deli to prove to
Speaker 1: Billy Crystal that maybe he wasn't the cunnelingest king that
Speaker 1: he thought he was. Oh, yes, yes, yes oh. This
Speaker 1: scene was groundbreaking for a few reasons. It told all
Speaker 1: the women watching who had faked orgasms that they weren't alone.
Speaker 1: It taught men to try to be attentive to their
Speaker 1: partner's needs, and it catapulted pastronomy to become the top
Speaker 1: aphrodisiac of nine nine. It also started a conversation about
Speaker 1: the performative nature of the female orgasm. Women face far
Speaker 1: too much pressure to satisfy their partner's ego instead of themselves.
Speaker 1: I mean, no one ever has to fake it for
Speaker 1: their vibrator. If they don't get the job done, they
Speaker 1: just go back into the drawer and they think about
Speaker 1: what they did. In the years that followed, female pleasure
Speaker 1: became more and more common on screen, but they were
Speaker 1: still often treated as punchlines, like Jennifer Anniston getting unexpected
Speaker 1: magic himaxes and clus Almighty, or Katherine Hygel accidentally orgasm
Speaker 1: me at dinner when a little boy grabbed her remote
Speaker 1: controlled vibrating underwear. Okay, there is so much wrong with this.
Speaker 1: It's non consensual, it's a kid doing it, and it
Speaker 1: perpetuates the dangerous myth that vibrating underwear gives you anything
Speaker 1: but a five alarm electrical bird. And even when orgasms
Speaker 1: weren't meant to be funny, it could be hard to
Speaker 1: take them seriously, like in Forty Days and Forty Nights
Speaker 1: when Josh Hartnett makes his partner orgasm by caressing her
Speaker 1: with flowers, which, believe me, is not that easy. Not
Speaker 1: to be a size queen, but you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: use at least a sunflower. The ads weren't a step
Speaker 1: forward for orgasms, but they weren't a step back either.
Speaker 1: They still needed to step a little to the side,
Speaker 1: now the other side, then back and forth. Yeah, right there. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: in the present day, we're starting to see much more
Speaker 1: realistic and positive depictions of women pop in their turkey timers.
Speaker 1: These days, you can hardly turn your TV on without
Speaker 1: seeing a woman getting off. And finally, movies and shows
Speaker 1: are doing this through the female gaze. And if you
Speaker 1: don't know what that would look like, then you haven't
Speaker 1: seen Bridgerton. It's a show about nineteenth century British society
Speaker 1: taking care of their little women. She's a Beth in
Speaker 1: the streets, but a Joe in the sheets. Thanks to
Speaker 1: bridgertain there haven't been this many female orgasms since well
Speaker 1: since everyone started watching Britain. So that's the history on
Speaker 1: the female orgasm on screen, and who knows what the
Speaker 1: future holds, but it is important because the way women
Speaker 1: are portrayed on screen holds a mirror up to how
Speaker 1: they're treated in real life. And as all women know,
Speaker 1: sometimes holding up a mirror to something is the only
Speaker 1: way to get a good look and figure out how
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