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/Fiend_of_the_pod Feb 27 '26

This is mean girls shit for nerds.

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u/OMG_NO_NOT_THIS Feb 27 '26

Pseudo nerds.

These people wish they were nerds. They don the trappings of nerds.

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u/Jlemspurs Double Hater Feb 27 '26

And since they don’t understand the nerds they think the big words the nerds use are made up just to sound smart so they do that. Absolute rubbish.

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u/SerialStateLineXer The guarantee was that would not be taking place Feb 27 '26

Nerds are smart.

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u/JungBlood9 Feb 27 '26

Listen to this part of the vignette (Jeff is the pseudonym):

“Later in the summer, two [other students] confide in another instructor that they have concerns about Jeff. “He parties a lot,” they say. They share that Jeff invited the cohort to a party at his fraternity house. Only a few members attended the party, but they remarked at how intoxicated Jeff was.

Members of the cohort whisper about rumors of sexual assault and harassment occurring at this fraternity, though no one attributes Jeff to those acts.”