Jaclyn Glenn

[[File:JaclynGlenn2014.jpg|thumb|right|165px|One of the world's many YouTubers.]]
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'''Jaclyn Glenn''' is an [[Atheism|atheist]] vlogger. Her [[YouTube]] channel has over 800,000 subscribers and 127 million views.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/user/JaclynGlenn/about JaclynGlenn - About]. YouTube.</ref>

==Background==
Glenn was raised [[Roman Catholic]], and was still a [[Christianity|Christian]] when she started vlogging on [[YouTube]]. In her early videos, she generally expressed [[Liberalism|liberal]] views on social matters. She apparently began to question Catholicism's stance on divorce, which led to a questioning of her [[faith]] more generally. In 2012, she revealed that she was no longer religious, and now identified as an [[Agnosticism|agnostic]]. She has since come to call herself an atheist.

[[Richard Dawkins]] has shown some pretty strong support for Glenn.<ref>https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/status/397269588326375424</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/status/369708126057947136</ref>

==Views==
===Religion===
As an atheist activist, Glenn is critical of [[religion]]. She has criticized Christianity, mostly [[Christian fundamentalism|fundamentalism]] within the religion, as well as [[Islam]], arguing that it promotes violence.

She is opposed to [[Atheism+]], which she describes as "atheism plus [[radical feminism]]".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a61ZgjPN3is Atheism + Drama]</ref> Despite this definition being far from the truth, she seems to support a lot of the same values as Atheism+ at times.

===LGBT rights===

Glenn is an outspoken supporter of [[gay]], [[lesbian]] and [[transgender]] rights but has espoused views on her YouTube channel which are considered by some to be [[transphobia|trans-exclusionary]]. Specifically she has said that a trans man who presented as a man but had [[Vagina|female genitalia]] was "biologically, a woman."<ref>[https://youtu.be/bua7zdEgIm4 YouTube JaclynGlenn.] Glenn responding to a video by trans activist [[Riley Dennis]].</ref>

Glenn teamed up with self-admitted [[transphobic|transphobe]] [[Arielle Scarcella]] to attack [[Riley Dennis]] and her girlfriend Fiona to the point where Fiona decided to shut down her relatively small channel, because she started receiving an overwhelming amount of abuse from Glenn's large fanbase. Glenn later defended her video, this time going one step further by saying she would not date a man she otherwise found attractive specifically because he was trans.<ref name=chatdating> [https://youtu.be/LqT_6LpLTa8 YouTube JaclynGlenn.] Jaclyn defends video collaboration with Arielle Scarcella, mocks Riley Dennis and Fiona (neonfiona).</ref> In this video response, she stated that "Whenever you say things that I have a problem with, I'm going to call you out, whether or not you have a huge channel or a small channel". This stance should, properly, have committed her to making video responses to other YouTubers such as [[Blaire White]], with whom she had just admitted to not agreeing on everything ''less than a minute earlier''. 

Glenn had featured Scarcella on her channel earlier in her infamous Two Genders video.<ref>JaclynGlenn. [https://youtu.be/ud-vON3U68E TWO GENDERS?] YouTube.</ref> She also frequently collaborates with the exclusionist and conservative trans commentator [[Blaire White]].<ref>Jaclyn & David Blogs. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9fMr1Vob4g Halloween Fun with Blaire White]. YouTube.</ref><ref>Blaire White. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiVgKWOClX8 Asking Strangers Which Of Us Is Trans]. YouTube.</ref><ref>Blaire Black. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqDloQmnMk4 CAN YOU BE FRIENDS & DISAGREE ON POLITICS?...] YouTube.</ref><ref>Blaire White. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh_KeeuaVwA 1000 GENDERS DRINKING GAME]. YouTube.</ref> Conversely, she made an emotional video on the death by suicide of transgender teenager Leelah Alcorn,<ref>JaclynGlenn. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mGfYdNYsoo Transgender Teen Commits Suicide]. YouTube.</ref> decrying the religious influences that caused her to take her life, rebutted [[Hunter Avallone]]'s infamous "The Truth About Transgenders" video<ref>JaclynGlenn. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHfwgySRxsc The TRUTH about Transgenders!] YouTube.</ref> and regularly defends trans people from attacks by conservative and/or transphobic religious people. 

===Relationship with feminism===
Glenn has attracted a fair number of [[Men's rights movement|MRAs]] to her videos after voicing her opinions against [[feminism]].<ref>[https://twitter.com/jaclynglenn/status/542726760186404864 Twitter] "Yes, I am an antifeminist. It's not that I'm calling out the behavior of some [[social justice warrior]]s, no. It's b/c I just hate women. Duh." Sarcasm included.</ref> It seems her main issues with feminism are [[Radical feminism|radical feminists]]. Some have criticized her for being an "MRA apologist". Some radical feminists have also criticized her for posing for Playboy.

Following the massacre committed by [[Elliot Rodger]], she made a video arguing that Rodger's actions were solely based on mental illness, rather than misogyny. She has even gone so far as to claim feminists were "hijacking" the massacre to make it look like it was influenced by misogyny, when, according to Glenn, it wasn't.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOfuVQC29s8</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbcNppwco2U A response to Jaclyn Glenn's Elliot Rodger video]</ref> Glenn's view specifically was endorsed by [[Dawkins]].<ref>[http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2014/05/she-talks-sense-faster-than-most-of-us-can-think-says-dawkins/ Butterflies & Wheels] on Freethought Blogs.</ref><ref>[http://i.imgur.com/nn3tWYf.png Screenshot backup]</ref> Never mind that Rodger himself, widely considered one of the foremost experts on his motives, [[Elliot Rodger|pretty explicitly debunked this]].

==Plagiarism==
Glenn came under fire in 2015 for allegations of [[plagiarism]]. The controversy began when she was called on a video she made about [[Kim Davis]], in which she repeated every word of a video by Theoretical Bullshit. She was then caught also reading word for word the comments of her Facebook fans and passing them off as her own.<ref>[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/09/29/there-are-more-examples-of-jaclyn-glenns-plagiarism/ You decide].</ref> Afterwards, other videos of hers were found to be copied dialogue of other individuals, including [[Sam Harris]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd3VghFlp2A Jaclyn Glenn Plagiarizing Sam Harris]</ref> However, she mostly plagiarized — that is, copied verbatim without attribution — comments on her Facebook and dialogue from other YouTube videos. Many other YouTubers condemned her actions, including her buddy [[TheAmazingAtheist]]. She has since given a half-assed apology admitting she did some wrong, but not really. Interestingly enough she hasn't even been prudent enough to delete the evidence of her plagiarism from her Facebook page which is available to see.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCSgJgXWOHs Jaclyn Glenn addresses the accusations of plagiarism.] The video also outlines some of her views on [[transphobia]] and feminism.</ref>

==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCravYcv6C0CopL2ukVzhzNw JaclynGlenn] on [[YouTube]]

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