#33: Dealing with Internet Critics and Bullying

A Beautiful Mess Podcast

Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today we're talking about handling and dealing with negativity on the internet. It's an episode we've been working on for a while, and feels like a scary (but important) topic to cover. We share many stories in this episode that are vulnerable and some are sad, but we hope that what you take from this episode is a sense of empowerment. We truly believe the internet IS slowly becoming a more kind place and we want to do anything we can to further that shift. We hope you do too! Visit the show notes at abeautifulmess.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the A Beautiful Mess Podcast. Today we're talking about how
0:09.7	we survive internet critics and bullying as two women who have made a living as public figures on the internet now
0:16.0	for more than a decade, we've experienced the full spectrum
0:19.0	of respectful critiques, mean-spirited bullying, and everything in between.
0:22.0	It's not a fun subject but it's
0:24.7	an important one so today we're gonna dive it I guess. Yeah I guess so we've been
0:29.5	talking about this episode for a while but we keep putting it off because we're like, I don't want to talk about it.
0:35.0	Yeah, it's a, it's very nerve-wracking. There is a huge difference between constructive criticism and
0:41.6	bullying, and we are not using those terms
0:44.8	interchangeably ever. There's absolutely a way to disagree with someone
0:49.3	even publicly that is still respectful and kind. We would never label a
0:55.0	critical comment as bullying just because it hurts our feelings. Maybe actually
0:59.1	we would have when we very very first started blogging but we've learned.
1:02.3	Yes. How many years live in 13? very first started blogging but we've learned.
1:03.3	Yes.
1:04.3	How many years have been 13 or 14?
1:06.3	Yeah.
1:07.5	Yeah.
1:08.3	Yeah.
1:08.7	So learning to fully publicly apologize quickly for something that you've done wrong
1:15.2	is one of the best things we ever learned from blogging. It's super easy to be
1:19.0	defensive but that's not what this episode is about. So we're just gonna kind of separate those two things right now.
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