You Are Being Unreasonable - 106 - The end

Episode Date: October 16, 2021

An announcement about the future of the You Are Being Unreasonable podcast. 

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Hello, welcome to an announcement. from the You Are Being Unreasonable podcast, the podcast about people being unreasonable on mumsnet.com. With me, Hells. And me, Simon. Hey, so, we've been on hiatus for a while. We have, we have. And then inspired by a beautiful little announcement from the You're Wrong About podcast, have decided that now's probably the time to just say,

we're never going to make this podcast again. We hate this podcast. don't hate this podcast. I think this podcast was part of a different time in our lives and we've sort of changed our creative pursuits since then. Both of us, I think it's fair to say. I think that is fair to say. We don't hate this podcast. We've met a lot of lovely people through this podcast. We had a lot of fun doing this podcast. We've done a few great live shows and well, that catalogue is still available for you to listen to. But, um, Yeah, we're moving on to concentrate on other things.

I would quite like to just say a bit about some of the reasons why I personally cannot bring myself to keep doing this podcast, because I think... I think the political climate has shifted around, well, transphobia in the UK. Yeah, Mumsnet has always been a hotbed of transphobia, and it used to be very well contained to one board, and that was problematic, and I had my reservations about sending any traffic there at all. But I do think that it's radicalised a lot of people and is probably quite a big contributing factor to a lot of extremely hostile discourse. Not just discourse, it goes far beyond discourse. And I don't feel it's all comfortable with giving it any airtime whatsoever anymore.

I work for an LGBT plus organisation. I am steeped in this stuff all day, every day at work, and that's coming from a very privileged place of not being a trans person and so I really, really don't feel like I should be giving it any sort of platform whatsoever. I know that we have trans listeners and I know that they have enjoyed the podcast

and we've done our best to avoid the worst of what is on there and take down the terrible things when we find them. But that can only go on so long, can it? It's like retweeting transphobia onto a timeline just to dunk on it. We don't need that. We all know. We all know. And you're the person who's always looked for the friends, who's gone to Mum's Net, and you need to look after your own mental health. Like, that's not a safe space for a queer person.

No, it's not. And, you know how there's like the seven great stories? I feel like we've covered the seven great stories of Mum's Net. We've covered a person is out outraged at their neighbour. We've covered somebody knocked on the door. We've covered stealth boast pretending to be, oh, faux naivety. We've covered outrage machine as faux naivete. We've covered someone had a wedding and they dared to invite me. What are the other great mum's net tropes? I went to a shop and the assistant wasn't suitably subservient. I put my dick in a glass of water. Yeah, and, and penis beaker. Those are the only seven stories on Mumsnet. They just get rehashed over and over. You've heard them all. We've read them all. Yeah. There's no time to do

this anymore. We're never going to touch the ones about people's real parenting, so that writes off a whole space of the board. At this point, it is just parents and turfs, so there's nothing here for us anymore. Yeah, but we've really enjoyed recording all these episodes and the community that's built up around you're being unreasonable and so we're very keen to keep in touch of any listeners who've enjoyed our content

and to keep up with what we might do in the future together or separately. That makes it sound like we're splitting up. And it's not your fault. We still love you. It's nothing you did. Yeah, I think... No, I mean, I will be continuing my film reviews

and doing cultural criticism. I've got a book out if you want to buy that from Bear Bua Press. I've got a book out from Bear Bua Press. We've all got books out from Bear Bua Press. Anyone's looking to write a book? Maybe speak to Bear Bua Press, no. I've got poems. I've got some ideas about something that began as a show and then turned into some poems

and is now, I think, morphing back towards being a show because I'm starting to crave an audience again. I think Bo Burnham has a lot to answer for. That's really all I have to say And I think that you're wrong about summed it up best By saying, you know, we don't want to be phoning it in We don't want it to be season 8 of Game of Thrones Yes, true that, true that

Thank you everyone for all of the laughs And all of the listening Thank you to anyone who ever donated at any of our live shows Where we did our best to make up for visiting this hateful board by donating to charities supporting trans people. That's kind of it. Yeah, thank you. I'm on Twitter at Simon XIX.

I'm on Twitter at at Helen Seulis. Simon, do you want to say nugs a few times for the road? No, I think we'll put the nugs to bed. We'll put the nugs to bed. Night night nugs. Night night nugs. Thank you. Bye.