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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Fat Activist Your Fat Friend - Anonymity, hyper-visibility and online trolling (Part One)

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In part one of a two part conversation Sofie talks to Your Fat Friend about being an anonymous essayist and very fat person online, being both invisible and hypervisible, anti-fat culture, fat activism, different cultural attitudes to fat people, navigating thin fragility and the body positivity movement.


Trigger warning – violence, murder, online abuse, menstruation, death threats, rape threats, doxxing, stalking, the diet/weight loss industry, death, fatphobia, eating disorders


Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering


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0:00.0

Oh my God, you've literally never put yourself in a fat person's shoes.

0:05.3

Because if you did for a minute and you were like,

0:08.8

I mean like I need to tell this person about my concerns about their health

0:11.9

and you thought about it for a minute you'd be like

0:14.3

I'm probably not the only person who's had this thought I wonder how many times they've had this

0:18.0

conversation it doesn't take a huge leap it's just like have you considered that

0:21.8

person's experience at all

0:23.1

You are listening to made of human also known as the mole part a podcast hosted by Sophie

0:30.7

Hegan who is a Danish comedian

0:34.1

Mopah Trying to find out how to do life

0:41.5

But it turns out nobody knows maupau

0:47.0

It's a first it is a very, very first ever Mopard with an anonymous person.

0:57.0

I think that's exciting.

0:58.0

Your fat friend is an online presence, a person who's anonymous on the internet because she doesn't want to get,

1:07.0

you know, killed for saying what she says.

1:11.0

And that may sound like I'm exaggerating, but not necessarily.

1:18.0

I mean, kill is perhaps a strong word, but when you look at how women with opinions are

1:25.5

treated on the internet not just women anyone who just isn't a cis white

1:30.7

straight man when you think about the, you know, the risks and how many people have

1:36.8

had their lives ruined because of trolls, you know, finding their addresses and, oh, I can

1:42.2

highly recommend you read the book called Crash Override by

1:45.6

Zoe Quinn. She was the woman who was one of the main victims of Gamergate.

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