Everything is not fine: Not for me anymore.
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“I envisioned writing a rave review one day. I just have to say at the outset: The ladies have virtually no way of providing feedback other than these reviews. I guess they don’t want feedback because it’s too distressing.
I made the mistake of voicing feedback on a page advertising the show on Kim’s blog. After some discussion with a host and fans of the show on that page, I thought we had laid the issue to bed and everything was okay. I was relieved. However, I was surprised to discover that, on the following show, they discussed the issue on the podcast in a way that was unfriendly and unfair to me. I had legitimate concerns about wanting to feel safe with people I had come to like. I’ve erroneously trusted people different from me in the past and was burned. So when I had an issue, I was looking for clarification, reassurance, and ultimately, I was hoping to be able to continue listening. On the show, I learned that my feedback was unwelcome and part of a disagreeable pattern of show fans voicing unwanted feedback and hostility on Kim’s blog.( I didn’t think I was being hostile, but I think it read to them as hostile. Tone can be hard to judge.) An analogy I used was also mischaracterized. The odd thing is that they laughed heartily about it and then Jen immediately legitimized my analogy by elaborating on the point of comparison that I was trying to convey. Analogous objects only have to be similar at the point of comparison: I was comparing people with podcast platforms and how important they can be to a listener’s thoughts about a subject, not messaging . I’m sorry that I didn’t have an exact comparison from which to draw. I don’t know many podcasts about middle aged white ladies who were fashion journalists/writers/editors. Anyway, I’m gone. Like their critique of my analogy, I think the closer you fit the demographic of the hosts, the less you will question the way their thoughts are expressed because you are just like them. You’ll never need anything explained, or need to explain anything, because you will always give and enjoy “the benefit of the doubt”. This is easier when demographics tightly align. You can relax and know with the utmost certainty that everyone is “trying” and so no clarification need be demanded. There’s a shorthand there that I didn’t get because I’m not the demo.
Ultimately it wasn’t nice to be friendly and admit fault easily in one forum (on the blog) and then be begrudgingly apologetic and teasing on the podcast. I just wish it had ended at the blog and not brought to the show where I couldn’t defend my concerns. The blog discussion was great, or so I thought…Thanks for the memories and best of luck. But turns out, everything is not fine for this former listener.”
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01/25/23
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