Episode 75: How To Deal With Transphobic Alters, How To Survive Your Newsroom's Awokening, And How To Get Ousted From The Screenwriting Industry

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

After Katie tells Jesse about a very problematic alter, the hosts respond to an email from a young journalist who feels trapped by the would-be revolutionaries in her newsroom, discuss NPR's new policy regarding expressions of political beliefs, and talk about a memorable blowup in the world of TV writing. Plus: more personals.

Show notes/Links:

Beware The Likes Police: https://theoutline.com/post/6708/marc-andreessen-twitter-faves-alt-right

New NPR policy: https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2021/07/29/1021802098/new-npr-ethics-policy-its-ok-for-journalists-to-demonstrate-sometimes

Nadria Tucker's firing: https://twitter.com/NadriaTucker/status/1324718215629467649

HuffPo's coverage: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nadria-tucker-cw-superman-and-lois-hollywood-toxicity_n_603d5eb8c5b6ff75ac3ea433

TV types respond:

https://twitter.com/brianscully/status/1419763285491019777

https://twitter.com/jillybobww/status/1419834042287984644

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0:00.0	Okay, here's what's up.
0:05.0	Hey, Jesse, can I read you a tweet?
0:07.0	Please do.
0:08.0	I love when you read tweets.
0:09.0	You love tweets.
0:10.0	This is like bedtime stories for you.
0:12.0	Okay, so a bunch of our listeners pointing me to this and when I read it to you, you will
0:18.0	know why.
0:19.0	Okay, so I'm not going to say the name of the account.
0:21.0	It's a pretty small account.
0:23.0	The avatar is like an anime, not an anime furry, but like a little anime, anime kind of
0:29.0	weird.
0:30.0	It begins.
0:31.0	Trigger warning, sex, turf rhetoric, trans misogyny advice, asking for emotional labor.
0:38.0	Uh-oh.
0:39.0	You don't want it.
0:40.0	Should I be loose here this?
0:41.0	Yeah, what I'm triggered by is that this person spelled the word labor with a U.
0:45.0	It's frightfully British.
0:46.0	So it starts out.
0:47.0	So we found out yesterday that one of our headmates, a lesbian, says she isn't attracted
0:51.1	to women with penis's question mark, question mark, or any C-A-M-A-B.
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