Episode 162: We Challengeth The Honor Of Ed Yong And The Transgender Center

Halt, vagrant! Hailest thou from the tribe of the latinx? Or ypipo? LGBTQIA2+ or cishet? Art thou based, or cringe? Don thine helmet and draw thy sword, for this week on Blocked And Reported, we defend our honor! First, Katie Herzog duketh it out with Jesse Singal to determine who shall inherit the kingdom of Blocked And Reported in the event one of them should die. Then, Jesse attacketh the honor of Ed Yong, highly decorated knight of journalism and recipient of a Pulitzer medal. Alas, Jesse striketh at his most subpar front-page article for The Atlantic, laying bare its inaccuracy for all to see. Then, the denizens of Twitter come after Jesse Singal for his coverage of the St. Louis Transgender Center. After Jamie Reed laid bare its most dishonorable treatment of trans children, it attempteth to repair its honor by investigating itself and finding itself innocent! But by doing so, our intrepid duo expose even more of its dishonest acts…And finally, TikToker @jackielabonita is mocked at a baseball game, leading the dezinens of the ‘net to come to the defense of the poor maiden’s honor — including none other than legendary bard Cardius of B. But why hath honor culture suddenly returned to America of all places? What if it were white women who hath mocked a black woman? Do Jewish gamers have honor culture? Listen in as our brave knights don their philologist hats and investigate!Also there are bears f*****g for some reason???The links Katie clickedhttps://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1651039681407078400https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1651279526310166549New York Post: “Conor Skelding loses battle with cancer”https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/new-york-post-reporter-conor-skelding-loses-battle-with-cancer/The episode of ours that led to the viewer responsesThe Ed Yong DebunkingThe Atlantic’s story on 1/5 healthcare workers quitting due to COVIDhttp://web.archive.org/web/20211117011521/https://www.theatlantic.com/The survey citedhttps://morningconsult.com/2021/10/04/health-care-workers-series-part-2-workforce/A debunking of this claimhttps://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/if-1-in-5-healthcare-workers-have-quit-where-have-they-gone.htmlJesse Singal & Bari Weiss EXPOSEDThe callouthttps://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1649784774603468800The article they’re citing, accidentally proving Jesse righthttps://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article274573836.htmlNBC News article on the casehttps://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/st-louis-gender-clinic-accusations-unsubstantiated-internal-investigat-rcna81233Jesse’s articles on the Transgender CenterDefining “reasonable care”https://www.lauensteinlaw.com/news/2017/06/19/defining-reasonable-care-and-negligence/Why you shouldn’t trust the right-wingers’ investigations, eitherhttps://ballotpedia.org/Andrew_Bailey_(Missouri)Missouri restricting transition care for adultshttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/us/missouri-transgender-health-care.htmlThe new emergency regulationshttps://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/2023-04-13---emergency-reg.pdfKatie’s leaked yearbook photohttps://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/12woca6/guess_who_in_high_school/TikTokThe “girl-on-girl action” at a baseball game that started it allhttps://www.tiktok.com/@jackielabonita/video/7224738861270715690Twitter’s massive reactionhttps://twitter.com/cupid4joon/status/1649920143290519552Even Cardi B gets involvedhttps://twitter.com/iamcardib/status/1649972293093715969Cultures of honorhttps://social.psych.iastate.edu/about-my-research/research-on-culture-of-honor/The Insider article on the blowuphttps://www.insider.com/jackie-labonita-mocked-women-doxxing-backlash-tiktok-2023-4Other commentators weigh inhttps://www.tiktok.com/@t514grl/video/7224989934271122731?q=stitch%20%40jackielabonita&t=1682340093109Freddie DeBoer on online shaminghttps://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/perhaps-a-wave-has-crested This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe