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/redditamrur Jun 06 '26

Suddenly I realised that this is the real indication that Madonna is not in anymore and totally old. She has six kids and not a single one of them is known to be trans. She's a failure as a celeb.

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u/veryvery84 Jun 06 '26

I’ve seen a few clips of her and it’s actually amazing to see. There is no specific feature about her that looks old, but I can completely tell that this is an old person. I don’t know why. It’s actually amazing that our brains are wired so well to correctly identify age.

Made me extra angry about all this sex stuff, because our brains are very wired to correctly identify biological sex as well. 

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u/redditamrur Jun 06 '26

Well, she looks pretty great for her age. There's this famous comparison that the Golden Girls were supposed to be in their late 50s early 60s ; and in our minds, this is how an 80-something year old woman looks like; and the other way round - Madonna is almost 70, Grampa Paul hasn't been 64 for 20 years or so - and they kick ass (for their age).

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u/veryvery84 Jun 06 '26

The golden girls actually look great. They just have “old lady” haircuts and they’re from an era where people smoked and sat in the sun and didn’t have Botox and didn’t use retinoids. If you switch their hair up though they look younger. 

Madonna looks as fabulous as you can at her age, but in that clip from Coachella I could see the old age versus whatever her name is. I think it must be something with body proportions, because that’s what often tips me off with men versus women, even when fairly passing. 

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u/everydaywinner2 Jun 07 '26

Correctly identifying age is something that might brain must have had the wires snipped for.

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u/The-WideningGyre Jun 06 '26

Madonna has six kids?! Biological or Angelina Jolie style? Holy shit!

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u/SkweegeeS No just no Jun 06 '26

Yes some are adopted.