There Are No Girls on the Internet - February 22, 2022


There Are No Girls On The Internet is back for a brand new season!

Revisiting Miss Estella's Brilliant Bus Amanda Knox asks: Who gets to own their story?

Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

185.82

Word count

623

Sentence count

41

Harmful content

Hate speech

3

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Transcript

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Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
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00:01:21.360 If your bookshelf and your For You page are equally important to your personality, welcome home.
00:01:27.100 Pro Society is a weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse.
00:01:35.740 Each week, we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and pop culture with your favorite writers, book talk creators, and plenty of overthought opinions.
00:01:44.000 Yeah, I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed.
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00:01:53.060 My name is Bridget Todd, and I love the internet.
00:01:56.400 And the fun fact about me is that any time anyone brings up anything about the internet or technology,
00:02:01.500 my first inclination is to tell them about how a woman whose story they might not know is actually the reason we have that thing.
00:02:08.240 Like, did you know that a woman engineer is basically the reason we have cell phones and tablets?
00:02:12.760 But that she was fired from IBM in the 50s for being trans, and her story was almost overlooked because of it. 0.97
00:02:19.640 Or what about those bored apes you might have been seeing on the social media feeds of celebrities like Jimmy Fallon, Paris Hilton, and Gwyneth Paltrow? 0.92
00:02:26.800 Did you know they were actually designed by a woman of color who kind of got screwed out of the credit? 0.98
00:02:31.700 Or what about the fact that a Black woman who worked at the social media platform Pinterest
00:02:36.320 developed one of the first ever policies to keep medical misinformation off social media
00:02:41.160 way before COVID was ever a thing, but that she was actually punished for it?
00:02:46.500 Y'all, I cannot stop talking about the ways that women, Black folks, queer folks, trans folks,
00:02:50.940 and other traditionally marginalized people are out here shaping what it means to be on the Internet and technology.
00:02:55.920 even if our stories are not always told.
00:02:58.940 I started the podcast, There Are No Girls on the Internet,
00:03:01.340 so that our experiences online would never go overlooked
00:03:04.120 and our stories would never go untold.
00:03:06.840 On There Are No Girls on the Internet,
00:03:08.300 we talk about the past, present, and future of our experiences online.
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00:03:15.500 with new episodes starting on March 1st
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