Premium Episode: Jesse Gatekeeps Asianness, Dave Chappelle Is Double-Cancelled, Youth Gender Clinicans Express Concerns, And Facebook (Maybe) Hurts Teenage Girls
Here’s the first premium episode of the BARPod Substack Era, and it is a meaty one! First, Jesse talks about the disingenuousness of a certain racial reading of the Bad Art Friend story, and his brave decision to decide, on Twitter, who gets to be what race. Then the hosts discuss the Dave Chappelle special and the responses to it, a new Abigail Shrier piece in which respected youth gender clinicians express some grave concerns, and Facebook’s internal research showing Instagram could negatively affect teenage girls. (The photo of Chappelle on stage with a bunch of pink smoke is from of a giant ‘C’ is from Netflix.)
Show notes/links:
Michael Scott as Chris Rock:
Talia’s mad:
Glenn’s mad:
Jesse’s mad:
Bad Art Friend (again): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html
Jesse’s ill-advised tweet:
Dave Chappelle’s special: https://www.netflix.com/title/81228510
Everyone’s mad: https://www.google.com/search?q=chappelle+closer
Jesse thinks his 2019 piece on the last round of Chappelle outrage holds up pretty well:
Abigail Shrier on youth gender medicine:
Youth gender clinician Erica Anderson, who is quoted by Shrier, on Blocked and Reported:
WSJ on Facebook’s research: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739
Kat Rosenfield is skeptical: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-moral-panic-over-instagram-and-girls
So is Stuart Ritchie: https://unherd.com/2021/09/facebooks-bad-science/
His book is good: https://www.amazon.com/Science-Fictions-Negligence-Undermine-Search/dp/1250222699
Jon Haidt discussing this stuff on the Quillette podcast: https://quillette.com/2021/10/04/podcast-168-jonathan-haidt-on-instagrams-mental-health-emergency/
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