There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

Boy has it been a big week for men who like to control women.

Kiki Palmer's boyfriend took to Twitter to shame the outfit that she wore at an Usher concert.

And Jonah Hill's ex-girlfriend, surfer Sarah Brady, released some pretty troubling demands that he had for her online behavior.

Now, both of these situations illustrate what happens when

social media overlaps with controlling behavior in romantic relationships, something that, frankly,

I just don't think we talk enough about, and something that I think that many of us have dealt with

or, unfortunately, are currently dealing with. So I did a whole episode on Patreon of breaking all of

this down. We get into all of it, the weaponization of therapy speak, and whether or not it's ever

okay for a romantic partner to police what we post on social media. And I thought it was such

an important conversation that I wanted to share a little bit of it here and that there are no

girls on the internet feed.

Now, if you want to hear the entire conversation,

join us over at Patreon at patreon.com slash tangoady.

I should preface this by saying,

I obviously don't know any of these people,

and this is just my perspective from an outside person who knows a lot about the internet and discourse online.

I think that we have really got into a weird place when it comes to gender.

I think that this is just my opinion.

I think that we've had the last 10 years where like men's rights activists and in cells and like pick up artists, guys like fresh and fit, their podcast, which is very popular, guys like Andrew Tate, who is, you know, currently being investigated for sex trafficking, right?

Like men who I think are dangerous because of their actions, but also because of the attitudes about gender and sex and sexuality and romantic relationships and the expectations that men should have, regular men should have

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