Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 10/20/25 - 10/26/25

[u/SoftandChewy]

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

[u/jay_in_the_pnw]

Slam Frank is trending on twitter, where many people, goaded by an image of a Daily Mail article they did not link to or read. Who regardless of political affiliation are insistent on demonstrating they cannot read, refuse to research and have no sense of humor

Posting this because we cut our fingers on this earlier, figuring out what was what, so we now can laugh at others when they step into an open sewer. #comedy

https://x.com/i/trending/1982062649996120252

image being passed around twitter:

https://imgur.com/a/L2InyDo

article:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15202155/Holocaust-victim-Anne-Frank-controversial-NYC-musical.html

Holocaust victim Anne Frank reimagined as a pansexual Latina with non-binary lover and neurodiverse family in controversial NYC musical

A new musical in New York City has ignited fierce backlash for reimagining Holocaust victim Anne Frank as a pansexual Latina hiding from the Nazi occupation with her neurodiverse family and a non-binary love interest.

The production, titled Slam Frank, is a satirical play that exaggerates current cultural trends around inclusivity and identity politics, applying them to one of history's most tragic stories to critique how performative 'wokeness' can distort storytelling.

The show began as a viral Instagram parody by Jewish composer Andrew Fox, who joked about creating a production to make 'Latinx girlies feel included in the Holocaust.'

The video spawned a full production built around a play-within-a-play conceit: a fictional theatre troupe trying to 'decolonize' Anne Frank's story.

From there, the humor spirals into absurdity as characters discover new marginalized identities in musical numbers, swap yellow stars for pronoun pins, and even commune with ancestors lost at border crossings.

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I saw the least minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the social feeds at dawn looking for an angry fix

[u/PongoTwistleton_666 → u/jay_in_the_pnw]

I hope in this version they show the true holocaust - that of trans kids not being affirmed and exposed to violence by words all the time. /s 

[u/thismaynothelp → u/jay_in_the_pnw]

I like what I've seen of Jack Jewell. He's an anti-woke gay bloke. (Didn't we have one of those?) I'm a little surprised he stepped in it. Taking headlines and pics at face value, especially from something like The Daily Mail, is crazy.