Emily Atack
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
How does sexual harassment – both online and in real life – affect a person’s sense of self worth? This is one of the many questions actor and comedian Emily Atack has been asking herself and others in her new documentary, and as she campaigns for parliament to change the law around cyberflashing.
In this chat, Emily and Fearne share their experiences of everything from catcalling and being sent unsolicited photos online, to the way the world has made them feel about their own bodies. Plus, they try to unravel why it is that society struggles to allow women to be sexy and smart at the same time.
Emily Atack: Asking For It? will air on BBC Two and iPlayer at 9pm on Tuesday 31st January.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place. The show that thinks inspiring empathy through |
| 0:07.4 | storytelling might just make the world a kinder place. Today I'm chatting to Emily Aitak. |
| 0:14.0 | Feeling sexy to me has become something that I've relied on, it's my little support blanket. |
| 0:19.9 | So to sometimes be told to have to you should you need to take that way because it's not |
| 0:23.9 | classy or it people are going to take seriously or you're going to have rape threats sent to you. |
| 0:27.9 | That really frustrates me because you're asking me to be someone that I'm not and I should be able to live in my world |
| 0:35.6 | and feel empowered by those things that make me feel empowered without worrying about my safety. |
| 0:40.6 | Emily is an actor. You might know her from The Inbetweeners, a comedian. She does brilliant skits and sketches on the Emily Aitak show |
| 0:48.6 | and a team captain on Celebrity Juice. I actually saw her recently but I went back to record a special final |
| 0:56.1 | ever episode of Celebrity Juice which was as you can imagine bloody bonkers but what I wanted to chat |
| 1:02.6 | with her about when she came round to mind the other week was a lot more serious. In her new |
| 1:08.4 | documentary Emily Aitak asking for it she opens up her life and her social media DMs to the public |
| 1:16.6 | as she attempts to understand why she and so many others are sexually harassed online on a daily |
| 1:23.5 | basis and what we need to be doing to stop it. January is the time when we often want to try something new |
| 1:33.5 | but I know that sometimes setting a big resolution can feel like too much big change at once. |
| 1:39.9 | It's maybe a bit too much pressure so that's why on the Happy Place app you can join us in starting |
| 1:46.5 | some new happy habits. Every day this month we're releasing new practices for you to try in the |
| 1:52.8 | Happy Habits collection. There's meditation, there's tapping and there's ASMR too. Those ASMR sessions |
| 2:01.9 | I cannot tell you how amazing they are. I love them. They're designed to calm and focus you. They |
| 2:08.1 | are brilliant. If you've never tried it before now might be the time. All the practices are |
| 2:13.5 | under 15 minutes to help fit into your day and make this January a bit more cheerful to find out |
| 2:19.6 | more and start your free 14 day trial. Head over to the Happy Place website. |
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