SIO195: A Mormon #metoo Reckoning, with Colleen Dietz
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week my guest is Colleen Dietz, who is the host of the Mormon Happy Hour podcast. On her show, Colleen does a great job discussing important and sometimes heavy topics while still maintaining laughter and good spirits. She'll need that skill today because unfortunately we're here to discuss a traumatic assault that happened years ago when she was a new student at BYU, and the woefully inadequate response by the school and the church. We don't into too much gory detail, but if you want the full weight of her awful experience she has written more about it here. BYU's victim blaming response was in her opinion almost worse than the assault itself. It took her a long time to come to terms with what happened and why her Mormon faith was not just wrong but how their unhealthy and repressive relationship to sex actually made her more vulnerable to her attacker. However, she's in a much better place now, and she's doing amazing work trying to reform the church from without, and helping others reform it from within.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries Only This is episode 195. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm your host Thomas Smith. |
| 0:35.2 | And okay, yeah, I was off last week. |
| 0:38.4 | Wanted to get something out, but you know, |
| 0:41.5 | we were on a rare vacation and I just didn't get to and I figured you |
| 0:45.4 | fine folks would allow me a week off in my time of great need but we are back |
| 0:50.3 | today and I have an interview a very good interview with Colleen |
| 0:55.2 | Payne Deets of the Mormon Happy Hour podcast. Now do you need to give a bit of a |
| 1:01.2 | content note here because that we do talk about sexual abuse that |
| 1:05.9 | Colleen unfortunately did suffer at BYU. |
| 1:10.7 | We don't don't worry it's not like two into the gory details or anything but you know as much of as much of it is as necessary to tell a proper story |
| 1:18.8 | So I just want to give you a heads up on that, but this episode is about just how bad BYU and the |
| 1:25.9 | larger Mormon community is at dealing with sexual assault it's it's awful it's |
| 1:32.1 | victim blamey you know it, it's as bad as you can imagine when it comes to the |
| 1:37.4 | Mormon Church's response. Now, Colleen, on the other hand, is delightful, she's great, |
| 1:42.1 | she's a fantastic guest, so I hope the kind of the |
| 1:45.8 | negativity of the topic doesn't dissuade you from listening because she's great, you're |
| 1:50.1 | going to love her, and I also encourage you to check out her show as well, |
| 1:54.6 | Mormon Happy Hour. |
| 1:55.4 | But why don't we get on over to the interview? |
| 1:57.8 | Here we go. |
| 1:58.2 | Here's Colleen, thank you so much for coming on the show. |
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