Speaker 1: There Are No Girls on the Internet, as a production
Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio and Unbossed Creative. I'm Bridget Toad and this
Speaker 1: is there Are No Girls on the Internet. Boy, has
Speaker 1: it been a big week for men who like to
Speaker 1: control women? Kiki Palmer's boyfriend took to Twitter to shame
Speaker 1: the outfit that she wore at an Usher concert, and
Speaker 1: Jonah Hill's ex girlfriend, surfer Sarah Brady, released some pretty
Speaker 1: troubling demands that he had for her online behavior now.
Speaker 1: Both of these situations illustrate what happens when social media
Speaker 1: overlaps with controlling behavior in romantic relationships, something that frankly,
Speaker 1: I just don't think we talk enough about, and something
Speaker 1: that I think that many of us have dealt with
Speaker 1: or unfortunately are currently dealing with. So I did a
Speaker 1: whole episode on Patreon and breaking all of this down.
Speaker 1: We get into all of it, the weaponization of therapy speak,
Speaker 1: and whether or not it's ever we're okay for a
Speaker 1: romantic partner to police what we post on social media.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was such an important conversation that
Speaker 1: I wanted to share a little bit of it here
Speaker 1: in that there are No Girls on the Internet. Feed
Speaker 1: now If you want to hear the entire conversation, join
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Speaker 1: I should preface this by saying, I obviously don't know
Speaker 1: any of these people, and this is just my perspective
Speaker 1: from an outside person who knows a lot about the
Speaker 1: Internet and discourse online. I think that we have really
Speaker 1: gotten into a weird place when it comes to gender.
Speaker 1: I think that this is just my opinion. I think
Speaker 1: that we've had the last ten years where like men's
Speaker 1: rights activists and in cells, and like pick up artists,
Speaker 1: guys like Fresh and Fit their podcast which is very popular,
Speaker 1: Guys like Andrew Tate, who is you know, currently being
Speaker 1: investigated for sex trafficking, right, like men who I think
Speaker 1: are dangerous because of their actions, but also because of
Speaker 1: the attitudes about gender and sex and sexuality and romantic
Speaker 1: relationships and the expectations that men should have regular men
Speaker 1: should have around those things. I think that is also
Speaker 1: very dangerous. And I do believe that a lot of
Speaker 1: those attitudes are sort of maybe they start in these
Speaker 1: you know, kind of fringe or extreme pockets of discourse
Speaker 1: or the internet. Right, So, like, I don't I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1: I don't think that like Jonah Hill is listening to
Speaker 1: the Fit and Fresh podcast or Andrew Tate's podcast tape speech.
Speaker 1: But I think that these attitudes start in places that
Speaker 1: are kind of fringe. They then get really quickly mainstreamed
Speaker 1: by social media platforms and you see these clips from
Speaker 1: the podcasts on Twitter things like that, so you don't
Speaker 1: have to be like a follow up or a listener
Speaker 1: of these influencers or personalities to get their messages. And
Speaker 1: I just think those messages have been filtered down to
Speaker 1: the general public, particularly to young people, particularly to men,
Speaker 1: and we are no longer treating them as fringe. When
Speaker 1: they are really extreme, I would argue, really dangerous and
Speaker 1: really regressive. And I think what's worse is that I
Speaker 1: think that they keep everybody men women, everybody talking about
Speaker 1: like women who are dating men. I know this sounds
Speaker 1: very heteronormative, but that's the two examples that I'm talking
Speaker 1: about reflect that. But I think that they keep all
Speaker 1: parties from truly experiencing connection because regressive, rigid attitudes about
Speaker 1: gender and dating. They obviously harm women who are in
Speaker 1: the relationships with men like this, but I think they
Speaker 1: harm the men as well, because they prevent those men
Speaker 1: from truly being able to see women as people, as
Speaker 1: humans that they can have respectful connections with. I think
Speaker 1: that it's this attitude that women are something to be controlled,
Speaker 1: women are something to be shut, like knocked down, and
Speaker 1: to make submit. And I think that all of these
Speaker 1: podcasts and you know, influencers and all of that, I
Speaker 1: think that they all rely on this like underlying dynamic
Speaker 1: that you're as a man, your job on earth is
Speaker 1: to break women, have women submit to you so that
Speaker 1: you can fulfill your like you know, societally recognized place
Speaker 1: in relationships, which is you at the top and women
Speaker 1: at the bottom. And I have a really big problem
Speaker 1: with this. I know this sounds like I'm making a
Speaker 1: mountain out of a molehill, but I spend so much
Speaker 1: time researching and studying the kinds of attitudes that are
Speaker 1: coming out of these, you know, men's right spaces. And
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you dress it up in therapy
Speaker 1: speak and bleach blonde hair and sleeve tattoos like Jonah Hill,
Speaker 1: or if you dress it up in the guise of
Speaker 1: life just being concerned for your family unit, like Kiki
Speaker 1: Palmer's partner was doing. It's still really really seems like
Speaker 1: the same kind of dangerous, gendered rhetoric that comes from
Speaker 1: these pockets of the internet and our online discourse that
Speaker 1: are so dangerous. So that was just a little preview
Speaker 1: of our whole conversation. And I know this is not
Speaker 1: really a topic that I wade into often on the
Speaker 1: podcast and listen, I am no relationship expert by any means.
Speaker 1: I actually don't even talk about my own romantic life
Speaker 1: or personal life on the podcast or even really publicly. However,
Speaker 1: I did just feel compelled to talk about this situation
Speaker 1: because I think it's an important one, and I just
Speaker 1: think it's one that we're not really talking about openly
Speaker 1: enough or honestly enough, and I honestly really do want
Speaker 1: to know your thoughts do so, if you want to
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