Episode 061: Upset Facebook Commenter

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Conversations on social media are rarely substantive, but sometimes a comment can provide a good opening to a larger discussion. In this episode, Cynthia and Susan unpack a comment made on a recent ALSSI post that seemed to ruffle a few feathers. It's a discussion about unhelpful ways Latter-day Saints sometimes respond to each other, and how we might all benefit from retiring the tired scripts members have relied on for too long in an effort to keep each other in line.

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0:00.0	Welcome to at last she said it. A podcast where women of faith come together to
0:06.9	acknowledge that it's complicated and support each other while we figure it out.
0:10.6	Susan can we talk for a we figure it out.
0:13.7	But Susan, can we talk for a minute?
0:16.3	Why are we doing this episode?
0:18.0	Because it's not to just poke at people who are poking at us.
0:21.5	No, no.
0:23.2	It's sadly because this, well this is not a unique comment.
0:27.6	We get women who write us and say, my mom is saying these things to me calling me apostate.
0:35.0	My bishop is telling me, you know, why do you want to compete with men?
0:39.0	There is a very good reason we're doing this and it's because people need to talk about ways to
0:44.7	respond to these kinds of accusations because it's happening.
0:50.3	Hello and welcome to at last she said it. I'm Susan Hinckley and I'm here with
0:55.8	Cynthia Wynward. Hi Cynthia. Hey friend how are you today? I'm good I hear it's a
1:00.5	burning hot where you are. A hundred and three today.
1:04.0	What gives?
1:05.0	I don't know, believe it or not, it's freezing cold in Minnesota.
1:08.0	I'm huddled up here in my hoodie and my house slippers.
1:11.0	So it's a cold summer day here, but it's better than burning up, I think.
1:15.7	Well, it's going to heat up here on our podcast. Always. It's going to heat up.
1:20.5	Particularly today, and that is because we had one of those lightning rod posts.
1:26.0	I think this might be only the second time it's happened that we've had a post kind of,
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