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

Pictured: Jesse and Katie prepare to duel it out for the ownership of Blocked And Reported. Image Credit: Getty

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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 fucking for some reason???

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The links Katie clicked

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1651039681407078400

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1651279526310166549

New 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 responses

The Ed Yong Debunking

The Atlantic’s story on 1/5 healthcare workers quitting due to COVID

http://web.archive.org/web/20211117011521/https://www.theatlantic.com/

The survey cited

https://morningconsult.com/2021/10/04/health-care-workers-series-part-2-workforce/

A debunking of this claim

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/if-1-in-5-healthcare-workers-have-quit-where-have-they-gone.html

Jesse Singal & Bari Weiss EXPOSED

The callout

https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1649784774603468800

The article they’re citing, accidentally proving Jesse right

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article274573836.html

NBC News article on the case

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/st-louis-gender-clinic-accusations-unsubstantiated-internal-investigat-rcna81233

Jesse’s articles on the Transgender Center

Journalists Are Exhibiting Far Too Much Credulousness Toward Jamie Reed’s Critics

Gender-Clinic Whistleblower Jamie Reed Has Provided A Detailed Account Of Her Most Controversial Claim, Including The Names Of Those Involved

Defining “reasonable care”

https://www.lauensteinlaw.com/news/2017/06/19/defining-reasonable-care-and-negligence/

Why you shouldn’t trust the right-wingers’ investigations, either

https://ballotpedia.org/Andrew_Bailey_(Missouri)

Missouri restricting transition care for adults

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/us/missouri-transgender-health-care.html

The new emergency regulations

https://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/2023-04-13---emergency-reg.pdf

Katie’s leaked yearbook photo

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/12woca6/guess_who_in_high_school/

TikTok

The “girl-on-girl action” at a baseball game that started it all

https://www.tiktok.com/@jackielabonita/video/7224738861270715690

Twitter’s massive reaction

https://twitter.com/cupid4joon/status/1649920143290519552

Even Cardi B gets involved

https://twitter.com/iamcardib/status/1649972293093715969

Cultures of honor

https://social.psych.iastate.edu/about-my-research/research-on-culture-of-honor/

The Insider article on the blowup

https://www.insider.com/jackie-labonita-mocked-women-doxxing-backlash-tiktok-2023-4

Other commentators weigh in

https://www.tiktok.com/@t514grl/video/7224989934271122731?q=stitch%20%40jackielabonita&t=1682340093109

Freddie DeBoer on online shaming

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/perhaps-a-wave-has-crested