Episode 289: Stephen Brophy

[SpookyGhost]

The reality TV producer (Somebody’s Gotta Do It) opens up about his depression, social anxiety, history of unrequited love obsessions – especially as a kid, getting sober from prescription opiates and smoking speed thru a broken light bulb!

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[E is for Elephant]

Unrequited love sucks. But please, men, stop using the term "friendzone" when a woman you like doesn't return your feelings. It's dismissive, entitled, gross, and reeks of "nice guy syndrome" ( see here in comic form). Apologies if this is covered at all later in the interview, it bothered me enough that I had to turn it off.

[FixTheWagon]

Post by E is for Elephant » August 5th, 2016, 10:38 am

Unrequited love sucks. But please, men, stop using the term "friendzone" when a woman you like doesn't return your feelings. It's dismissive, entitled, gross, and reeks of "nice guy syndrome" ( see here in comic form). Apologies if this is covered at all later in the interview, it bothered me enough that I had to turn it off.

Alternative suggestions?

[Murphy]

THANK YOU! I almost turned it off, I felt the same way. It would have bothered me less if it was acknowledged that it was a harmful attitude, but it never really was.