Everyone's Invited with Soma Sara

Should I Delete That?

Alex Light & Em Clarkson

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This week, the girls chat to Soma Sara, author and founder of Everyone’s Invited: a forum for people to anonymously share their experiences of sexual assault and harassment. Through opening up that space, Soma was inundated with stories from survivors and has dedicated her time to assist in making a change. She shares her belief in the importance of empathy, compassion and understanding, and how this, above all else, is the key to making that change. With a rapidly changing world that is increasingly focussed online, and where 9 out of 10 school girls are pestered to send nudes, this change couldn’t come quicker.

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0:00.0	Oh my god. Why did I post that? I don't know what to do. Should I delete that? Yeah, you should definitely delete that.
0:11.4	Hi, hello everyone, welcome back to Should I Delete That? I am. You okay? Hello. You winced when you asked if I was okay.
0:22.8	I'm not having my happiest day, like, I'm not having my happiest day that I've ever had because sometimes if I'm working online to be a hard thing to do.
0:32.0	You are having a tough day. Very tough day, yeah. But I'm good. I don't want to be like, um, sort of as if, you know, people are like,
0:40.0	oh, and it's like, I do what we're doing now. We're uploading the hospital selfie with absolutely no context.
0:45.8	And then someone's commenting saying, are you okay, babe? And we go, yeah, PM, huh? Yeah, DM me, babe.
0:52.9	I'm actually, I'm so inspired by that level of like, um, baiting that people do, like, on their Facebook page.
1:00.4	I just think, God, how inspired. I'm good for you. I do love that. I love, I do love to see a bit of baiting. I enjoy it.
1:06.6	But I also don't because I'm like, yeah, but I want to fucking know. Yeah, if I ever end up in hospital,
1:11.1	I'd rest assured. I will just they'll just be looking out and no explanation. Just caption of, um, hopefully going to be better soon.
1:20.2	Feeling really grateful for my friends right now. You know who you are. Yes.
1:25.4	Oh, that's the worst. You know, like, that's the absolute worst of that. And I don't think people use social media quite like this anymore.
1:33.0	But I think people definitely use to do that with Facebook where you don't upload a photo like,
1:37.7	or you don't upload a status and it's like feeling so grateful for my friends right now.
1:41.4	The real ones know who they are. And then the rest of them just have to sit there and go,
1:45.8	well, she sure should. They're talking about me.
1:51.1	Yeah, but that's that's always passive aggressive stuff, isn't it? To make someone feel bad.
1:55.3	I mean, I'm pretty sure that's why social media is done. Like, I think, yeah, that's, but that's how Facebook thrives.
2:02.3	Instagram. Yeah. Yeah. It's, yeah, 100%. That's the point.
2:06.5	It's like when people break up, have breakups and then their social media feed is kind of littered
2:12.0	with quotes about how, like, I don't know, like, yeah, alluding to what's happened. Like, yeah,
2:19.4	to be fair, I feel like I probably did that back in the day as well.
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