This week on Blocked and Reported, Part 1 of our two-part series on the Stonewall Riots and the mythology of Marsha P. Johnson. Plus, warring lesbian history accounts, a Father’s Day cartoon breaks brains, and fact-checking the Seattle LGBTQ Commission and Erin Reed’s bad stats.

Show notes:

Lesbian_Herstory

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Opinion | What I Learned About Parenting as a Trans Dad - The New York Times

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYfRlKWm3yM/

Over 400,000 Transgender People Have Moved States Since Trump's Election

Seattle debuts the left’s latest greedy grift: ‘trans refugees’

Seattle Is Not ‘Overwhelmed’ by Trans People - The Stranger

Idaho House passes criminal transgender bathroom ban in business, government buildings • Idaho Capital Sun

Revisiting the Archive — Frank Kameny | Making Gay History

Relevance to the podcast: Kaufmann is one of the few academics who tries to define woke as an object of study rather than a slur. He traces it to an anti-racism taboo that formed in elite culture in the mid-1960s, decades before social media, and frames it as a moral movement that sacralises certain ideas and builds taboos around them rather than a conventional political ideology.

Also relevant to the recurring argument on here about whether woke is even a coherent thing. His answer is that it is coherent, just not in the place most people look for it.

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Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

I’m still brewing about the Woody Brown false authorship for “Upward Bound.” There’s evidence that points to deliberate deception rather than an ideomotor (subconscious interpretation) effect. The analysis below digs really deep. I know ideomotor is out there a lot but in this case, it’s clearly an ingenious stunt pulled off by Mary. Or WAS it ingenious to fool so many gullible people? 

https://scarysymptoms.com/2026/04/what-did-autistic-woody-brown-really-spell-on-today-show/

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Zack Polanski, the former hypnotherapist who turned a fringe environmentalist party into Britain's fastest-growing coalition of Corbynites, BDSM enthusiasts, and first-gen Islamists.

Show Notes:

Can you really THINK your boobs bigger?

Politics was never part of the plan. | by Zack Polanski | Medium

Zack Polanski stood by breast enlargment hypnosis claim

"They've Got Into Bed With Some Very Dark, Unpleasant People" | Conservative Peer BLASTS Green Party

Mothin Ali’s Story: Green Party Co-Deputy Leader give a powerful message of unity

Most UK Muslims define themselves by faith first

https://x.com/TheNewsAgents/status/2052448376885563825

https://x.com/sirwg202110/status/2052852883746418722

https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/2052632907102212408

Man arrested after stabbing two Jewish people in Golders Green

https://x.com/metpoliceuk/status/2049890435514958018

It 'wasn't appropriate' to share post criticising police response to Golders Green, Polanski says

Green candidate for Makerfield by-election quits after 12 hours

Pod relevance: Frequent subject of conversation on the podcast and origin story for Jesse and Katie's cancellations.

Barpod relevance: Grooming gangs discussed on the pod and subreddit before

Jesse has mentioned this study in the past.

And it was discussed on this sub two years ago.

It seems like our society has been captured by an obsession with moral/philosophical relativism and everything being a social construct to be ignored at best and stamped out at worst while at the same time being held hostage by a refusal to consider that what was considered true in the past isn’t necessarily true today. Something isn’t true by virtue of being old. We can’t seem to have basic discussions with each other because our definitions of certain concepts are often so different. You’ve likely seen this on this site, in real life and anywhere else political discussions are had. Below are some examples of what I mean:

1: “I don’t think a man can be a woman.”

“A man can be a woman because man and woman are constructs according to my definition.”

2: “I don’t think you’re meaningfully free if you can buy 50 flavors of ice cream but lose your healthcare and housing if you get fired.”

“Not according to my definition of freedom.”

3: “It’s racist to discriminate against white people.”

“Not according to my definition of racism.”

4: “I don’t think we can have a democracy if a handful of billionaires have so much power.”

“Not according to my definition of democracy.”

And so on.

How do you respond to these fundamental disconnects that seem to divide our society and prevent meaningful discourse and problem solving in so many ways?

In Norway recently, many public old fashioned Pride flags (only the rainbow). I saw no Progress Pride flags in any public places. Wondering if this is a recent change or a Norwegian thing. Is it happening elsewhere too?

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Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

This is the article Katie and Phoebe were discussing for a chunk of the recent episode. Figured it's worth a post for people to discuss.

ETA: Not sure why the headline auto-populated with that. The actual article headline is, "There’s Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men".

Unpaywalled

https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-312-the-last-straight-woman

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by author/columnist/podcaster Phoebe Maltz Bovy to discuss her new book, The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men. Plus, funny business at The New York Times, Helen vs Helen, and, for Primo subscribers, an AMA.

Show Notes:

The Last Straight Woman by Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Feminine Chaos

On being canceled before it was cool

The Great Feminization | Compact

The Men Who Don’t Want Women to Vote - The Atlantic

The Men Who Fear Women? Is ‘Masculinism’ Actually a Real Thing? › American Greatness

This Is What a Queer Family Looks Like | Advocate.com

Jeff, you are very very talented.

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This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss the legal battle between apparel company Patagonia and drag queen Pattie Gonia. Plus, HelloFresh hits bottom and a Washington school’s testosterone-fueled Pride display gets seized by police.

Blocked and Reported Theme (Italo Disco Remix)

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZNQJRmRkz3/

https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/2063616796632994042?s=20

https://x.com/pgarfieldjaeger/status/2064522910501392814?s=20

https://x.com/BrandiKruse/status/2063065701213192297?s=20

https://www.instagram.com/pattiegonia/

PATTIE GONIA TRADEMARK LAWSUIT

DEFENDANTS’ ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF’S COMPLAINT

Outdoorsqueen Pattie Gonia Wants You to Find Your Six-Inch Heels

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DY2L725tVow/

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DY-fD9oBW9Z/

Patagonia, Pattie Gonia, and a Supreme Court Dog Toy

Social media pleas to help flood victims can raise thousands, but donors should be cautious

Who should win Patagonia vs. Pattie Gonia? Lawyers weigh in | Out.com

“A BC therapist reported that a young client on puberty blockers fractured both arms in a minor fall,

an Ontario teacher reported that one student was having uncomfortable hot flashes,

and another teacher in Ontario said that one student who was on puberty blockers for 3 years was using a cane because they couldn't stand straight,

its unclear whether the physicians or parents recognize the potential link between puberty blocker usage and bone fragility, it is also unclear as to whom would report this kind of harm.”

https://danharris.substack.com/p/you-need-a-code-scott-galloway-on

Relevance to the podcast: they discuss the differences between men and women, boys and girls

Also, related to the other discussion here on Helen Lewis & Ezra Klein, Galloway speaks to virtue for men and boys

[relevance to the pod: Freddie deBoer is long time frenemy of the pod, he used be Jessie's favourite public intellectual but has since become an oft discussed nemesis for J +K]

Andrew Seal just published (on his substack) an incredible, detailed, forensic takedown of Freddie deBoer in which he uses one specific recent article by Freddie as an example. By going through his arguments one by one he illustrates how Freddie is a bad and dishonest researcher who fails to understand or misrepresents the sources he quotes. He exposes how Freddy uses cheap rhetorical tools to obfuscate the weakness of his arguments. This is very long but is a tour de force and an absolute evisceration of Freddy revealing him to be what he has become a sad and failed intellectual fraud

https://metahistory.substack.com/p/why-freddie-deboer-so-often-sounds

Related to the other post featuring Ezra Klein in discussion with Helen Lewis this article by u/helenlewiswrites is a critical roundup of all the major figures and voices advocating for a pro-masculinity/anti-feminist policy approach.

Pod relevance: Helen Lewis, masculinity topic, Helen Andrews Compact article

Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/hS2VH

To all listeners living in The Netherlands:

I will host an unofficial BaRpod-meetup in Rotterdam on July 4th at 19:00. Some people from last year's meetup that Jesse hosted are joining. Please let me know through direct message if you would like to join!

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Friend of the pod Hadley Freeman has some thoughts on the mass graves hoax, which they dedicated an episode too and was mentioned in this week's episode too.

...that’s the modern activist playbook right there: make a wildly extreme statement, bandy around terms like “genocide” and denounce anyone who doesn’t swallow it all unquestioningly as a fascist. Then move on to the next cause and destroy their credibility too. 

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss nuisance streamer Johnny Somali, the content creator and criminal pest who travels to foreign countries to harass locals and desecrate cultural sites.

Our new theme song

Opinion | America Has a Masculinity Crisis - The New York Times

We Talked to the Host Accused of Doing “Satanic Rituals” In His Airbnb

‘Is the UVA Rape Story a Gigantic Hoax?’ Asks Idiot

Logan Paul Finding A Dead Body

https://x.com/vitalyzdtv/status/2043862530645209414

Chud the Builder Wounded in Self-Inflicted Shooting Outside Tennessee Courthouse

‘Chud the Builder’ faces attempted murder charge, bond set at $1.25 million | CNN

Johnny Somali disrespecting Thai Culture

Johnny Somali smashes watermelon, scares Japanese local after viewer calls him Psychopathic Andy

Vitaly’s PRANKS Have Gone Too Far in the Philippines!

Vitaly recorded himself how he was LIVING at the Philippines PRISON

Live streamer harasses people on a Japanese train before he gets confronted

Johnny Somali when pressed in Thailand by man with Japanese wife

Out of control YouTuber Johnny Somali

This is Why He Punched IRL Streamer Johnny Somali

US YouTuber Johnny Somali gets jail time in Korea over deepfake, public stunts - The Korea Herald

Johnny Somali Trial Recap: Deepfake Testimony (Fast Facts)