Tiffy Teaches Us Commenters Haven’t Changed since 1999.

What can I learn from her instead?

Lisa Martens
“Are you okay?”
3 min readJul 17, 2021

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Raw Time, Austin, Texas, 1999. Sorry Medium, there are no high-quality images of 1999 public access shows.

Here is Tiffy. I don’t know her real name. A friend introduced me to some old clips from 1999, where she’s hosting Raw Time, a music call-in show that aired locally in Austin, Texas.

She nonchalantly hangs up on the men who comment on her body or call her a bitch or a cunt. She even…

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Lisa Martens
“Are you okay?”

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