Why Are We Obsessed With Calling People Toxic? Emrata Asks

High Low with EmRata

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Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture

3.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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It’s easy to write people off as “toxic” and cut them out of your life completely. But have we taken the culture of boundaries too far? Today I read from an article published in The Atlantic entitled “That’s It. You’re Dead to Me.” and discuss the “toxic” phenomenon that millennials and Gen Z have come to rely on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to Emrata Asks. I was going to start off this episode by singing
0:22.0	Britney Spears' Toxic, which is actually my favorite Britney Spears song. I don't
0:29.0	know if we have rights to that, but today we're talking about the culture of toxicity. I read this
0:38.0	really interesting article in The Atlantic that came out actually in August, and it's by Caitlin
0:44.3	Tiffany, and it's called That's It, You're Dead To Me, and the subline is suddenly, everyone is
0:53.5	quote toxic. I think on the podcast we've been talking a lot about therapy culture, self-help
1:00.8	culture, and I loved reading this essay. I think it's so interesting, especially around the holidays
1:07.9	when you're thinking about a new year starting and what kind of people you want to bring into your
1:14.3	life in the next year and how to handle relationships and close relationships, but also like not close
1:20.4	relationships, and we have reached a place in our culture where it's almost like, you're like,
1:27.2	I don't owe you anything, right? It's kind of the attitude, and you're toxic, period. You're toxic.
1:34.4	I don't have to engage with you. I really like how Caitlin Tiffany breaks down the culture of this
1:43.8	and explains the phenomenon of it, and really talks about millennials and Gen Z and how we relate
1:51.6	to this, and we're going to get into it, because yeah, I don't know how I feel, and I want to
1:59.4	investigate. So let's go. Stay tuned for more high-low with Emrata.
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