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Blocked and Reported

Episode 79: What To Do When Your Boyfriend, Who Is A Horny Anthropomorphic Sword, Is Stalking You (With Meghan Murphy)

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

After Katie and Jesse follow up on some stuff from last week, the hosts discuss a video game controversy involving anthropomorphic weapons, and Katie interviews Meghan Murphy, who has been banned from major platforms for saying things like "men cannot become women."

Show notes/Links:

Jesse on the Junot Diaz situation:
https://reason.com/2018/07/09/for-metoo-to-work-we-must-draw-the-line/

Trailer for Boyfriend Dungeon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9BXqm3eKI&ab_channel=Nintendo

The Daily Dot’s coverage:
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/boyfriend-dungeon-kitfox-games-content-warning/

Kotaku Australia article running down the original complaint:
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/08/boyfriend-dungeon-consent-discourse/

Voice actor harassment:
https://screenrant.com/boyfriend-dungeon-eric-voice-actor-harassed/

Tyler, the Creator on cyberbullying:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tyler-the-creators-cyber-bullying-tweet

Meghan Murphy on Joe Rogan: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6yc6AIMf3JqLWygLQJ4Wrg

More on her:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-48366184

Women-Only Rape-Relief Shelter Defunded, Then Vandalized:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/women-only-rape-relief-shelter-defunded-then-vandalized/

Meghan on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq-04S1vzWPy3G8omi0wVvA

And Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/meghanmurphy



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0:00.0

I

0:05.3

Just see what's up. Hey Katie. How are you doing? Oh, just fine and you I'm good. This is so good

0:11.3

Mrs. Hertz. Oh, yeah, Mrs. Yara misses. I am a missus. It's not as weird. It still pisses me off so much that you were allowed to do that

0:19.2

Well, Jesse you two could be a missus. You could be a missus single someday

0:22.4

We don't talk enough about my far right social conservatism, but gay marriage not for me

0:27.4

Um, I have been I've been sort of returning back to the world and I went to an interesting event the other night an event

0:33.6

You went to an event I went to an event. Can I guess what it was? Yeah, exorcism. Uh, yes

0:40.6

Yeah, I was I was I was uh, they exercised me so I'm a

0:45.2

I'm a Christian now. I so if you're if there are a lot of journalism is mostly downsides

0:50.7

But you do event sometimes get invited to events with like free food and drink that is

0:54.8

The only real criteria I use to determine whether to go to something this was like this

1:00.8

Organization they're officially launching next year. They're all about dialogue and bipartisanship stuff like that

1:06.4

I was like I read that and then I saw there'd be free Mexican food

1:12.0

I was like this sounds like my kind of organization. So I go

1:15.2

It's maybe 40 or 50 people about half journalists half entrepreneurs like capital E entrepreneurs

1:21.6

At one point we're in a circle. We quickly just say a few things about ourselves because it's like effectively a networking event

1:27.8

And I noticed this incredible difference in how journalists and entrepreneurs like

1:32.8

communicate so

1:34.8

I was one of the first people to introduce myself during the circle and I'm like

1:39.1

Yeah, I'm uh Jesse single. I co-host a podcast and I fucking hate myself

1:45.2

That was like basically what it sounded like every journalist is like staring at their feet

1:49.3

They're sad their anxious. They don't want to self promote

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