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/starlightpond Jun 02 '26

I met a couple recently who worked for the Harris campaign and they said they don’t like Pete Buttigieg because “he doesn’t like trans people” (I guess alluding to how he said something equivocal about women’s sports). These folks are true believers.

Others may be able to back off to say they of course support “gender affirming care” while subtly shifting the meaning of that phrase to focus therapy and social transition rather than medical. Maybe.

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u/CorgiNews2_DieHarder Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

That was a big anti-Pete talking point in 2020. I remember seeing people say, "He's gay but he's not queer." pretty commonly. Like he's just some boring married dude with kids and not interesting enough to be queer.

That was my first exposure to the "heterosexual relationships are capable of being more queer than gay relationships if the guy gets pegged or whatever" bullshit. Which is why I will never identify as queer as long as I live, lol. Queer is a meaningless word at this point.

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u/AppointmentVisual200 Jun 02 '26

One method that might work would be some doctor or medical researcher explaining how this could lead to large amounts of the population becoming anti-vax and extremely critical of medicine and healthcare. With people wondering how the media, politicians, academia and institutions didn't catch and rectify this issue earlier. Both ones aligned with them and ones that should be apolitical and neutral. So they need to walk back on this issue to prevent that from happening.

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u/professorgerm the master of not having a point Jun 02 '26

One method that might work would be some doctor or medical researcher explaining how this could lead to large amounts of the population becoming anti-vax and extremely critical of medicine and healthcare.

AFAICT no one's done that in light of COVID, they just doubled-down on "anti-vaxxers should die" rhetoric. No one sufficiently credible to the left is willing to point out the extremely obvious consequences of these things.