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🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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0:00.0 | This special mini episode is brought to you by our friends at Better Health. |
0:06.0 | We've been talking about stigmas and our Better Health ads recently, so today we wanted to dive into that a little bit further. |
0:12.4 | I like that. I like going a little bit further, and... |
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0:40.2 | You want to talk about stigmas? Let's talk about stigmas, honey. |
0:44.2 | Stigmas is really a powerful thing, and the idea of what other people might think about us, or what society might think about us, can hold a lot of power over people and their choices. |
0:57.2 | Being queer, we're very well versed, we just can't say, and stigma, we know it firsthand. |
1:02.2 | There's so many people that have been discriminated against for being gay, sometimes having to hide yourself, and that can lead to crazy things. |
1:11.2 | Not everybody could just come out. Those people are stigmatized too. |
1:15.2 | Yeah, and even within our own community, you think about the stigma surrounding HIV, femtops, right. |
1:24.2 | I got it. I definitely, I mean, stigma is sort of the residual kind of impression that people get from an ignorant place without fully knowing the full story. |
1:37.2 | I used to deal with that. I feel like a lot when I was first starting out in doing drag, because it's like people didn't know what that was. |
1:47.2 | And so they assumed the worst, and their... Girl, I read your book. You had a guy that wouldn't date you because you did drag. That was a stigma. |
1:56.2 | Do you think, why do you think there's a stigma around mental health? I mean, I think it's getting better now than it used to be, but it used to be like, oh my gosh, therapy? |
2:06.2 | People who go to therapy are only go there at the crazy, right? That used to be the vibe. I know that from Golden Girls. |
2:14.2 | I mean, I feel like it was back in the day, like before talking about your feelings was actually okay sometimes. |
2:20.2 | Yeah. Like Tony Sprano didn't want to be known that he was going visit Dr. Melfi. |
2:25.2 | Like thing. Yeah. Yeah. |
2:27.2 | And Blance DeVero was like freaking out because she reached menopause, and she refused to talk to a therapist because she was like, why would I be here if I'm not crazy? |
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