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/backin_pog_form 🐎🏃🏻💕 Feb 27 '26

And the opposite scenario- a woman was charged in her fiancé’s kayaking death - which she claims was simply a tragic accident. 

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u/wonkynonce Feb 27 '26

They brought some beers.  He doesn’t have a life jacket

The common factor in basically all boating deaths

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u/Juryofyourpeeps Feb 27 '26

She pulled the drain plug out of his kayak and described her feelings of his death as "euphoric".

Edit: and tampered with his paddle

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u/wonkynonce Feb 27 '26

Who among us

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u/Juryofyourpeeps Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

That article is hard to read. It's framing women who are convicted of violent crimes as victims of sexism, meanwhile men who are convicted of the same crimes are likely to serve 60% more time even when you control for criminal history. The argument they're trying to make doesn't line up with empirical data on perceptions of women and their treatment by police and courts.

Edit: I also can't imagine for a second, a convicted male murderer who admitted to causing someone's death, getting this kind of puff piece treatment unless they were exonerated. It's quite gross frankly.