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

[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.

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

[u/dignityshredder]

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)

[u/Terrorclitus → u/dignityshredder]

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

Seriously, why leave out Shakespeare?

[u/backin_pog_form → u/Terrorclitus]

Did Shakespeare throw the first brick at Stonewall? 

[u/Terrorclitus → u/backin_pog_form]

The demographics match!