Yeah, I think that's an interesting point. Because it sounds like
a nice idea in principle of like, Oh, you know, your side of caution. You know,
just play it safe if it's like a somewhat controversial topic or whatever. But I
think it would be bad if everyone always thought that way, like I said, then no
one would talk about anything remotely important in in the public sphere,
because you don't play it safe. You don't you know, whatever, right? I think in
our case, like, I think a lot of this comes down to, you know, how much do you
trust your audience, you know? If you can trust your audience to take what you
are saying, at face value.
Interpret your words accurately and precisely as you were saying them, if you
can trust 100% of the audience are going to, like, take what we're saying at
face value, they're not going to, you know, interpret this in a directionally
incorrect way. i.e. like take the opposite of what we're actually trying to say,
you know, if you can trust an audience to sort of, yeah, trust, trust yourself,
to be able to successfully communicate what you're trying to say to the
audience, and trust the audience to like, you know, not intentionally
misinterpret what you're saying. Then I think like last week's episode was
absolutely fine.
If for example you can't trust your audience to do that. And you know that,
okay, if we talk about anything remotely related to gender, or race or whatever,
people are literally going to take the opposite of what we're trying to say or
like, you know, people are, you know, going to, you know, no matter what we say,
like some people are going to interpret it in a certain way, then I think it's
different, and I think there's more to think about. And to be honest, I think,
like, I would hope that so far, you know, like, if some I would have hope that
someone who's a regular listener of the podcast.
And actually one of the people who tweeted at us last week of the episode saying
that, like, this is why you come across as misogynistic. I think her point, her
point was, actually look, I've listened to like all the episodes, I know you
guys actually don't mean, x, y, and z. But this is probably how it comes across,
kind of thing. And so I would hope that like people who've listened to multiple
episodes of the podcast, would, yeah, would sort of, under generally understand
the things that we're trying to say and generally view what we're trying to say
in a charitable way.
I don't know how true that is. I mean, I think that is actually probably true. I
think the audience of this podcast is, you know, is broadly kind of aligned. You
know, for example, after last week's episode, we got maybe three or four people
engaging on Twitter, saying it came across as misogynistic. And out of the, I
don't know how many reviews we've had, I don't know, like 5000 or 2000 reviews
or something like that. Maybe like 5 to 10 of them have been positive reviews
just saying that it's sometimes a bit misogynistic.
So like, I don't know how, you know, 5 out of 2000 reviews, saying we're
misogynistic compares to other podcasts. But I don't think that's a terrible
ratio. And like, I think, I think on the whole, I do feel like, you know, we can
sort of keep it real with the audience and not worry too much about things being
miscommunicated. What do you think, Ali?
