Stalking 101

Stalking wasn't illegal in the United States until 1989. Cristen and Caroline outline the different forms of stalking, differences between male and female stalkers, and how stalking is a form of dating violence.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to stuff Mob Never told you from how stup
works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm
Caroline and I'm Kristin, and today we're talking about stalking,
and so we want to issue a trigger warning that
we will be discussing issues like domestic violence. Um. But

(00:25):
the reason that we're discussing this today is because after
Kristen and I did our episode on intimate partner and
domestic violence, we heard from a lot of women who
were grateful that we addressed the issue and brought it up,
talked a lot about stats and where we stand today,
but they also wanted us to take it a step further. Essentially,

(00:46):
we heard from a lot of women who were saying, yes,
I got out of a really terrible situation, but once
I was out of it physically, out of the home,
or out of the relationship itself, I still had to
overcome the hurdles of my former partner stalking me, trying
to get in touch with me, and then going through
the bureaucratic red tape of trying to obtain a restraining

(01:10):
or protective order. And so there are definitely more issues
to domestic violence and intimate partner violence than what goes
on to cause someone to leave the home. There's also
a lot of the fallout that happens once someone does
try to leave, and so we're going to talk a
lot about that, not only the intimate partner stalking, but

(01:30):
also