Episode 14: Digital Self-Harm
Conversations with People Who Hate Me
Dylan Marron & TED
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Alyson anonymously sent herself hateful and homophobic messages online. Dylan Marron asks her why.
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Conversations with People Who Hate Me is a production of Night Vale Presents. Credits: Dylan Marron (creator, producer, host), Christy Gressman (executive producer), Vincent Cacchione (audio engineer, mixer), Rob Wilson (logo designer). Theme song: “These Dark Times” by Caged Animals.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:05.0 | collective. You have been called Dyke, Ugly Dyke, bug-eyed freak. |
| 0:12.0 | Who was it, who wrote that to you? |
| 0:15.0 | Unfortunately, it was me who wrote it to myself. |
| 0:18.0 | Whoa. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey listener, a quick favor. |
| 0:22.0 | We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really |
| 0:24.7 | grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond please visit survey |
| 0:28.6 | dot PRX.org slash TED to take the survey today. That's survey dot PRX.org |
| 0:36.2 | slash Ted. Thanks. Hey, I'm Dylan Marion, and this is Conversations with People Who Hate Meerin, and this is Conversations |
| 0:50.1 | with People Who Hate Me, the show where I take negative online comments and turn them into positive offline conversations. |
| 0:57.0 | Sometimes I speak one-on-one with folks who have said negative things to me on the internet, |
| 1:01.6 | and other times I moderate between people who have gotten |
| 1:04.5 | into their own digital negativity with each other. Today I'm moderating. Well sort of. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm talking to a woman named Allison who has been called a dyke and a bug-eyed freak by an anonymous |
| 1:16.8 | poster on her social media accounts. Now, a quick heads up before we begin. This episode deals with a form of self-harm. If that's |
| 1:25.0 | not a great topic for you to be hearing about, maybe this isn't the conversation for you. |
| 1:29.4 | And hey, that is totally okay. Go do something fun. Treat yourself. Also if you or someone |
| 1:36.1 | you know is having suicidal thoughts there is no shame but there is help. In the |
| 1:40.8 | United States you can call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline 24 hours a day, |
| 1:45.3 | seven days a week at 1,800, 273, 8,255. |
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