Savage Love Episode 338
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2013
⏱️ 45 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Stranger podcast, www.w.com. |
| 0:06.4 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:15.8 | well, there's nothing you can't ask on savage lovecast. |
| 0:23.6 | Less than a year ago in Vancouver, British Columbia, a girl named Amanda Todd committed suicide. |
| 0:29.6 | She was 15 years old and she had been going online where somebody convinced her that he liked her and convinced her to bear her breasts |
| 0:41.0 | and he took pictures, screen grabs, and eventually exposed her, created an online profile, put her |
| 0:48.0 | pictures out there, hounded her anonymously from school to school, where she was then bullied |
| 0:53.5 | by her peers and her classmates |
| 0:55.1 | and called a slut and physically attacked and mocked. |
| 1:01.0 | And in October of last year, Amanda Todd committed suicide because of the exposure, the slut |
| 1:07.0 | shaming, the bullying. |
| 1:08.9 | And just this week, another suicide in Canada, Ritea Parsons, a 17-year-old girl in Nova Scotia, |
| 1:17.8 | who was, they're calling it Canada's Stubenville case, who was raped at a party where kids were drinking. |
| 1:24.7 | She was 15 years old. |
| 1:25.6 | She was drunk. |
| 1:26.2 | She could barely remember what happened. |
| 1:27.4 | Four boys raped her. She was 15 years old. She was drunk. She could barely remember what happened. Four boys raped her. |
| 1:29.5 | And one boy took pictures or a picture that was then distributed to everyone in her community, |
| 1:34.8 | everyone in her school. |
| 1:36.2 | The police investigated for a year and no charges were ever brought. |
| 1:41.1 | And her family moved her to a new school in a new city where the photos followed her |
| 1:46.3 | and the slut shaming and the bullying followed her. And last week she hanged herself in |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dan Savage, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dan Savage and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

