"Boobquake" Creator Comes to Chicago & Drops Some Science

Hey, remember Boobquake? The movement that sprang forth from an Iranian cleric's idea that women's immodesty caused earthquakes? Boobquake creator Jen McCreight thought it would be a good idea to put that idea to a scientific test, and all of a sudden women around the world were showing cleavage, collarbone, midriff, thigh, or even ankle - as long as it was more skin than usual, it counted. In the aftermath a lot of attention was paid to whether or not Boobquake was an effective disproval of pseudoscience, or just a reason to let the scientifically minded skank-flag fly. Plus, there was that pesky 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan that some people pointed to as some sort of proof that yes, Virginia, boobies do produce shifts between tectonic plates.

McCreight came to Chicago this weekend for the inaugural event of Women Thinking Free (get the acronym?) organized by former podcast guest Elyse Anders, wherein the Boobquake phenomenon was dissected. If you weren't at the Galway Arms for the event on Saturday, the full hour-long lecture was captured in its completeness. Watch it because you weren't doing anything this afternoon anyways other than thanking the deity of your choice for centralized air conditioning. If you only watch one video today about the intersection of breasts, science, feminism, cleavage, skepticism and Iranian clerics, make it this one.