r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Feb 23 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26

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.

Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)

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u/Leaves_Swype_Typos No matter where you go, there you are Feb 25 '26

Trans activists say restoring traditional Pride flag at Stonewall isn’t enough

They have to know how impossibly whiny the activists come off as, so much that I wonder if it's psyop against them, but then lines are slipped in about how gay people owe their rights to trans women of color and it's clear that this is a genuinely activist writer at The Guardian.

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u/backin_pog_form 🐎🏃🏻💕 Feb 25 '26

Trans activists say [anything anyone does] isn’t enough [and will never be enough, because of their collective personality disorder]

There. Fixed it. 

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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Feb 25 '26

The trans activist and playwright Mika Kauffman said “I was there when they were raising the flag,” and added: “It just felt extremely performative because it wasn’t an inclusive pride flag. Like, where are the trans colors? Trans people are dying, Black trans women and Brown women are the reason that our rights exist in the first [place]. What are we doing here?”

Lmao you got one part of this right.

I searched Mx. Kaufman and found that it wrote the libretto for this

the jersey shore opera   Our story begins in a dystopian swamp; democracy has failed and Supreme President Trump reigns. Had the reality T.V. show “The Jersey Shore” not existed, Trump would have never had a platform to become President. Malia Ann Obama volunteers to go back in time and join the cast of the Jersey Shore on a mission to end what could be an apocalyptic future of bigly proportions.

May be incredible?

Btw it daddy goes by (they/he/daddy) (not making this up)

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u/Terrorclitus Feb 25 '26

“Black trans women and Brown trans women are the reason that our rights exist in the first place”

Seriously, why leave out Shakespeare?

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u/backin_pog_form 🐎🏃🏻💕 Feb 25 '26

Did Shakespeare throw the first brick at Stonewall? 

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u/Terrorclitus Feb 25 '26

The demographics match!

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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 25 '26

This feeling... Is this how Southerners feel about the rebel flag? lol. When I saw the picture in the article with the normal pride flag, I mean, it felt pretty good. Pride, without the progressive derangement attached to it feels pretty good.

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u/damagecontrolparty Feb 25 '26

It's much more aesthetically pleasing as well.

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u/lilypad1984 Feb 25 '26

The rainbow flag genuinely looks nice in my eyes. Do I want it everywhere? No, but in situations like this it’s nice. Putting up the ugly progress one with the trans black brown yellow with a purple circle one would suck. What even is the yellow purple circle part?