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Flashback: World’s Youngest Feminist

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(Cross-posted at Girldrive)

So I know this is like a year old, but I couldn’t resist posting this aMAZing video before my guest stint was over. In this episode of “Smart Girls at the Party,” 7-year-old Ruby Karp, the daughter of BUST co-founder and TV producer Marcelle Karp, talks with Amy Poehler about–among other things–what feminism means. She even serenades Amy with a song celebrating it. Seems that Ruby has a better understanding of feminism than a lot of adults. If you missed this back in the day, you must see it; it is adorable:

(If you can’t watch this video–the embedding seems to be a little screwy–watch it on YouTube here. )

Side note: I wonder if Ruby Karp was named after Ruby Tuesday, the Rolling Stones song. Probably not, but it comes to mind because my mom always wanted to name a daughter after the character. She thought that Ruby Tuesday was a devil-may-care, freewheeling feminist (despite the Rolling Stones’ misogynist rep). And after looking at the lyrics, I agree.

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  1. I love this segment, and I’m glad you posted about it so I would have a chance to see it again! I hadn’t known who her mom was, and it’s interesting how knowing that kind of shifts how the segment makes me feel. Not in huge ways, but a little bit. I’m also interested to know, after having read Marcelle Karp’s wikipedia page, just why she was forced out of Bust, which used to be one of my faves, but which I stopped reading when they started advertising cigarettes…

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