138: SPECIAL GUEST!: Suzanne Talks Texting, Sexting and Social Media with Her 21-Year-Old Daughter

The Suzanne Venker Show

Suzanne Venker

Society & Culture

4.9 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Suzanne and her daughter Emma, 21, talk about social media's effect on relationships and, in particular, on young women.

IN THIS EPISODE:

6:20 What is it like to be Suzanne’s daughter?

9:00 What is “sexting”?

10:50 Social media and its effects on young women. What does Emma see in her world/age group?

11:30 Social media is all consuming

13:00 Smartphones make it hard to focus

15:35 Social media can cause body image issues

16:50 Young girls are exposed to thousands of images a day

21:30 What is the solution to help young girls?

24:20 Your parents are your model for how you feel about yourself

25:40 “Catfishing”: Face-altering filters and why they’re problematic

29:40 What's good and what's bad when it comes to texting in a relationship

36:00 You don’t have to develop courage or have hard conversations when you’re texting

40:40 What is the #1 problem women have today when it comes to dating on college campuses?

42:40 When girls post on social media in a sexual manner, they're trying to impress men

48:10 For the average person, it is much easier to have casual relationships in college

49:30 Social media creates mental health issues

53:50 Suzanne to Emma: Do you ever wish there was no such thing as social media?

Transcript

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0:00.0	From the magnificent Midwest, it's the Suzanne Benker Show, where men and women are equal in value, but wildly different by nature. Join us here every week as we challenge the culture's hugely flawed narratives on men, women, sex, and
0:22.7	love. From coast to coast and from around the world, thank you for joining us.
0:30.2	So as you guys know, I'm doing far more solo podcasts these days and having fewer guests on,
0:36.2	but somehow it worked out that you're now going to hear
0:38.5	three guests back to back, beginning today with my daughter, Emma, who joins me to talk about
0:45.9	texting, sexting, and mainly social media. Just a really quick intro about Emma.
0:58.2	I love being the mom, I have to say, of young adult children.
1:02.1	I think that that's such an underrated pleasure of being a parent.
1:06.5	It's just been a complete privilege to raise my daughter and son.
1:11.5	And you move into kind of a new phase at this stage.
1:15.5	There'll be 22 and 19 shortly.
1:30.1	And it's just a, it can be a really hard relationship for a lot of parents because it's the time when you have to sort of back off and not parents so much, but just more befriend them, I guess, and watch them grow. And sometimes that means making mistakes and whatnot. So it's just a harder phase. But I like it. I'm really
1:36.5	enjoying it. And we've literally just begun this phase. And I just can't say enough about it. So I'm
1:42.8	really excited to introduce you to Emma. She is quite the
1:46.6	smarty pants, just one of the top in her class in high school. And she went on to get a chancellor
1:52.0	scholarship, so a complete full ride from her college. So that was just a huge boon for us financially, needless to say.
2:03.6	And, of course, a wonderful tribute to all of her hard work because she really worked her butt off.
2:10.0	Emma is also as lovely inside as she is outside.
2:13.6	And that's what I'm most proud of to be sure and um she can be a very idealistic girl
2:21.8	um and and in fact speaking of which uh she she said at the end of this episode that she would
2:30.1	come back on to talk anyagrams with me because she's fascinated by that and I kind of got
2:35.0	into them from her, especially with respect to how our personalities affect our relationship.
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