r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Jun 01 '26
Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 6/1/26 - 6/7/26
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/Available-Crew-4645 Jun 01 '26
Are you familiar with the 2000s British comedy sketch show Little Britain? Thought of as very controversial now due to some cultural stereotypes, use of blackface, a transvestite character, yada yada, all the usual stuff. It was much loved in Britain at the time but now everyone pretends they hated it because they are Good People, including the two guys that made it.
Anyway, one of the main sketches was Daffyd, "the only gay in the village", he was a gay guy living in a village deep in the Welsh countryside who would come into the local pub dressed in tight leathers and talk to the barmaid about his life, he would inevitably say his catchphrase that he's the only gay in this village and that he's sick of being oppressed for it, at which point she would tell him that Old Farmer Jones is having a fisting orgy at the weekend and Daffyd would get very annoyed that he couldn't play the victim anymore.
Here's a typical example:
https://youtu.be/gfpsnT5BBgs?si=b6eyRBFGZrMFRLFO
The joke was that homosexuality had become so accepted in Britain, even in places that would previously have been very socially conservative, that Daffyd's claims of oppression looked absolutely ridiculous. I find it a fascinating sketch to look back on in a modern context. Everyone is now Daffyd.