On Plane Bae; and Teaching Children About Mental Health
The High Low
The High Low
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🗓️ 25 July 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
We might be a little delayed - much like a Ryanair flight - but we got there in the end. Yup, that’s a pun; we’re talking about Plane Bae. Unfolding like a modern meet-cute, the tweet story of a ‘romance’ observed by another passenger over the course of over 50 tweets-gone viral, Plane Bae soon morphed into a cautionary tale of consent, privacy and doxxing. What does this incident reveal to us, except, yet again, that the internet is misogynistic?
Also today, we discuss two news stories surrounding mental health: firstly, that mental health may be taught to children as young as 4, and secondly, that 70,000 young people including 2,000 young children, are on anti-depressants. Are we right to be cautious of becoming a pill-addicted nation; or do we need to overcome this stigma? And will children as young as 4, really absorb the nuances of mental health? Ultimately, education starts at a grassroots level and needs to be woven throughout the curriculum, focusing on positive preventative measures like exercise and healthy eating. We’d love to here your thoughts on this. If you are suffering with mental health issues or believe someone you know is, you can contact mental health charity MIND at mind.org.uk, to find out more about your local support network.
Also today, a beautiful piece on becoming 2 when you thought you would always be 1, by Hannah Betts, why you should fear ‘femtech’ and birth control apps by Olivia Sudjic and Viv Albertine’s polemic on Fresh Air.
Links
Neon Daylight, by Hermione Hoby https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neon-Daylight-Hermione-Hoby/dp/193678775X
Picnic at Hanging Rock, on BBC2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b0bb6xvm
Hannah Betts, the postergirl for singletons, on coupledom for The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hannah-betts-how-the-poster-girl-for-singletons-found-love-at-last-gjxbfgtng
A letter to my friend who is getting married, by Marisa Bate for The Pool https://www.the-pool.com/life/life-honestly/2018/30/Marisa-Bate-letter-to-a-friend-who-is-getting-married
The dangers of Natural Cycle and birth control apps, by Olivia Sudjic for The Guardian magazine https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/21/colossally-naive-backlash-birth-control-app
All Saints on how to be a girl group, by Michael Cragg for The Observer magazine https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/24/all-saints-on-how-to-be-a-girl-group
Viv Albertine on a lifetime of fighting the patriarchy, on NPR's Fresh Air podcast https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2018/07/16/629365712
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 65 of The Highloat, the weekly news and pop culture podcast brought to |
| 0:15.7 | you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sites. |
| 0:19.5 | The first ever IVF baby turns 40 today. |
| 0:23.6 | Her name is Louise Brown. |
| 0:24.6 | How lovely, happy birthday Louise. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm going to do something new here. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm going to give you my hero, my icon and my Wally of the Week. |
| 0:32.1 | Am I all of them? |
| 0:33.1 | This is a way of just publicly praising me. |
| 0:37.6 | Tell me who they are. |
| 0:38.8 | My hero of this week is Amelia Holden, a 21-year-old American pizza waitress who body slammed |
| 0:44.8 | a man who grope to when he walked past. |
| 0:47.2 | The surveillance footage has gone viral and it's amazing, it's really instinctive. |
| 0:53.1 | My icon of the week is Dennis Quaid who appeared naked on a balcony while he's wearing dress |
| 0:57.9 | again. |
| 0:58.9 | In a face mask, smoking a fag, Dolly is your spirit animal. |
| 1:02.6 | I've seen the picture and it is a look I have rocked before. |
| 1:05.8 | It's quite inspirational. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.0 | And my Wally of the Week is Elon Musk, who stole a picture of a farting unicorn from |
| 1:12.1 | illustrator Tom Edwards to use in his Tesla electric cars they have now settled. |
| 1:17.2 | A farting unicorn. |
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