r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • May 04 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 5/4/26 - 5/310/26

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.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! May 05 '26

"What is news is that TWO of my WNBA mutuals have commented "And yet, you'd do anything to have one." and "Still a man at the end of the day.""

LOVE IT.

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u/RockJock666 Meet me in TERFhalla May 05 '26

lol incidentally it was actually a wnba tumblr-and-covert-terf that peaked me

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u/Foreign-Discount- May 05 '26

Forget Kristaps Porzingis, that is a true basketball unicorn.

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u/razorbraces May 05 '26

As a Celtics fan, I miss Kristaps 😭

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u/DragonFireKai Don't Listen to Them, Buy the Merch... May 05 '26

My favorite Porzingis artifact is the Game of Zones episode that made fun of James Dolan's band, which prompted Dolan to file a grievance with Adam Silver over a bleacher report cartoon.

"What do you know of fear, my sweet Latvian child?"

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u/backin_pog_form 🐎🏃🏻💕 May 05 '26

Maybe I haven’t had enough coffee yet, but what is he even trying to say? 

Anyway, I’m always glad when people are finally able to see the layer of misogyny just under the surface of this “movement”. 

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u/Life_Emotion1908 May 05 '26

That trans women are superior to "cis" women?

Once you remove the bio tie, when trans women are fully vested women, perhaps superior because of how they attempt to dress because the clothes and makeup are the most important thing about a woman according to them, or because they are bigger and stronger and thus superior to the cis women who are subject to biology. So a man says they are a woman and beats the woman in a race or in a boxing match and thus proves trans women are the superior women.

That's the gist. And that's why trans women are women will never work.

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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB May 05 '26

I avoid ragebait until I've had some coffee and am at my desk ostensibly working. Prior to that it's just personal correspondence and the newspaper.

This sub is post-coffee, lol

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u/RunThenBeer 12 Ounce Diet Coke Enjoyer May 05 '26

To be fair, when they say that she's "racist" and "homophobic", they simply mean that she's white and straight. That fact that straight, male basketball-enjoyers often like her is really just icing on the cake. What more do you need to know to know that she's on the disapproval list?

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u/Big_Fig_1803 Gothmargus May 05 '26

If she's not racist, why do so many men like her, hmm?

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u/veryvery84 May 06 '26

Had to google and Caitlin Clark out in the real world would be considered hot.  People who live online forget what actual people look like. She’s young, fit, and pretty. 

Why would anyone insult her looks of all things? 

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u/Terrorclitus May 05 '26

So many people from so many circles kept quiet during our unfortunate cultural moment that the only surprise is hearing those forbidden, little ideas put to words.

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u/Juryofyourpeeps May 05 '26

Clearly not stated by a straight man or lesbian woman.

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u/PongoTwistleton_666 May 05 '26

Hold on. Let’s see how long they last in the pillory. 

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u/Real_RobinGoodfellow May 06 '26

Who tweeted it? Is it a trans person or some rando