Pep Talk: Rejecting Creeps with Alexandra Tweten
Unladylike
Unladylike Media
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Imagine a world without unsolicited dick pics and dating-site harassment. Bye Felipe founder Alexandra Tweten wants to make that a reality. In the meantime, she offers an Unladylike pep talk on dealing with internet creeps and maintaining your sanity.
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| 0:00.0 | Their skiff'd have ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike. |
| 0:07.0 | It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up |
| 0:12.7 | but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and had a little ribbon on it |
| 0:16.4 | and I was so gas. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now |
| 0:21.7 | so for that one change really a little. |
| 0:23.8 | Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:53.8 | Hey on ladies it's Kristen and Caroline. A few years ago we published a fantastic series of pep talks |
| 1:09.2 | but they have been trapped behind a paywall until now. We brought a handful out into the main feed to close out |
| 1:16.4 | 2021 and ring in 2022 and now y'all we are bringing you the rest. You're going to be getting three pep talks this week |
| 1:26.0 | and three of them next week. We hope that these give y'all a little pep in your springtime step. |
| 1:35.8 | Whenever a guy would have a nasty response to one of my friends we would say buy Felipe and it kind of just was this inside joke. |
| 1:44.4 | I never really thought that anyone else would understand it or get it or think it was funny but apparently they do. |
| 1:51.4 | When life is looking dire and the world is a garbage pile you need a prep talk. Here's a prep talk. Here's a prep talk. Here's a prep talk. |
| 2:12.4 | Hello and welcome to the unlady-like pep talks album. I'm Kristen. I'm Caroline. |
| 2:17.4 | Pep talks are pick me up for when patriarchy gets you down. Starring some of our favorite most inspirational hilarious and brilliant unladies. |
| 2:25.4 | Today, Alexandra Tweeten, creator of the Buy Felipe Instagram account is here to help us deal with dick pics and gaslighting creeps trying to slide into our DMs. |
| 2:35.4 | Alexandra created the Buy Felipe account to document and expose all the unsolicited weird and sometimes downright threatening messages that women and gender queer people receive when online dating. |
| 2:47.4 | The Buy Felipe name came from an inside joke she had with friends. So whenever a guy would leave just like a nasty response to one of her girlfriends they would all recount the story and say buy Felipe a play on the popular Buy Felicia meme. |
| 3:01.4 | Yeah, the Buy Felipe Instagram now has 480,000 followers and Alexandra has a book out called Buy Felipe. This is dick pics and other tilites of modern dating. |
| 3:13.4 | It's safe to say that she has struck a nerve with online data is worldwide. |
| 3:17.4 | So Caroline, in the process of writing our book Unlady-like a field guide to smashing the patriarchy and claiming your space. |
| 3:25.4 | I did some digging into dick pic research because yes, finally people are starting to study dick pic behavior because it is so perplexing. |
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