Episode 69: AND DURING PRIDE

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

After Jesse offers a mass amnesty to the individuals he wrongly (?) blocked, Katie, in a surprising move, comes out in favor of murdering adorable innocent puppies with big watery eyes. Then, as part of the podcast's seemingly bottomless obsession with drama surrounding Nigerian novelists, the hosts discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's viral essay about how horrible Online is and debate whether it's okay to attack her with machetes.

(UPDATE: This essay provides a lot of background on Akwaeke Emezi and I'm annoyed we missed it while prepping this episode. We'll talk about it one way or another, either by updating this episode or in the next one. The short version is that Akwaeke had their uterus removed because they believed themself to be possessed by an evil spirit: https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/writer-and-artist-akwaeke-emezi-gender-transition-and-ogbanje.html -Jesse )

Show notes/Links:

Slate article on behavioral euthanasia: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/06/dog-bite-training-behavioral-euthanasia.html

Glenn is being mean: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1404194591117557763

CNA says trans women are trans women: https://www.channel4.com/news/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-feminism

CNA's sorta-apology: https://www.facebook.com/chimamandaadichie/photos/a.469824145943.278768.40389960943/10154893542340944/?type=3&theater

Transracialism: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html

MACHETES: https://twitter.com/azemezi/status/1346268453221658624

CNA's viral essay: https://www.chimamanda.com/

Oh God a Vox take on it: https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/15/14910900/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-transgender-women-comments-apology

What literally even is a woman anyway: https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1405661319903289344

Akwaeke Emezi's creepy response: https://twitter.com/ItsLithaAfter9/status/1405030628978999299

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0:00.0	Just the single, how's it going?
0:07.3	Things are going well, Katie.
0:08.3	I have a pretty exciting announcement.
0:10.2	Oh, what's that?
0:12.2	Back when we launched this humble little podcast last year, you may recall we immediately
0:17.1	got into a little bit of trouble with another podcast.
0:20.4	Do you remember this?
0:21.7	I have attempted to block this out of my memory, but something is coming back.
0:26.4	Please explain.
0:27.5	So there's another podcast that has blocked in its title.
0:31.1	I can't remember the rest of the name of the podcast.
0:33.2	I have no way of looking it up or finding out.
0:35.7	One of their co-hosts immediately accused us of having stolen their idea for a podcast.
0:41.8	The idea in question being talking about the internet.
0:44.7	Yeah, I think it was like two people.
0:47.4	Also he had a problem with two people speaking on microphones.
0:50.2	Yeah.
0:51.2	So I mean, in their defense, they were the first people to talk about the internet on a
0:56.1	podcast on microphones.
0:57.6	So I had this baby, beautiful baby of a podcast.
1:03.0	I'm swinging it in my arms.
1:05.0	It's covered in after birth.
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