Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/seattle-storm-owner-celeste-keaton-suspended-for-combatting-transphobia.1590934/#post-158562883

These assholes are wholly using the WNBA as a proxy for their bigoted bullshit. They don't care about women.

I follow the wnba and as a trans woman, I've never felt less welcome as a fan. There are absolutely players and members of the league speaking out and standing up for us and I love that (I see you Gabby Williams), but this whole thing with the league backing Cunningham, and the uptick in outspoken transphobic fans coming out in support. Are you familiar with the saying about the Nazi bar? Because this, this is how you become a Nazi bar.

Aha, so it was the two girls in front on the bottom right that were outside before the game



As for the brand, it's XX YY, founded by a former Levi Strauss exec who, guess what, is now an independent!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/13/jennifer-sey-xx-xy-athletics-womens-sports-trump/82223120007/

It was indeed rage bait. One of the two, Ahnaleigh Wilson, was already feted by the right because of a track and field defeat.
https://www.chronline.com/stories/washington-state-family-at-center-of-fight-over-trans-athletes-heartened-by-federal-probe,380095

The company's blog post in question:
https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/blogs/newsroom/we-meant-what-we-said-we-still-do#:~:text=one%2520of%2520them%2520Ahnaleigh%2520Wilson%E2%80%94one%2520of%2520our%2520NIL%2520athletes

Guess it’s okay to doxx little girls if they’re TERF BITCHES?

yup, and its one of the reasons i fucking can't stand Clark.....shes amplifies the racist crowd to no ends looking like someone who is treated completely unfair in the league....its fucking trash.

She loves it though, sure she will show up to more morgan wallen concerts

“Amplifies the racist crowd to no ends”? What in the world is this take.

Are you implying Caitlin is racist? Because there’s ZERO evidence of that. Are you implying the entire crowd cheering her on, who she hypes up, is racist? Because that’s what it sounds like you’re saying, and that’s also patently false.

If you’re saying she doesn’t denounce the racists who’ve latched onto her that’s a discussion we can have, but that’s not what you said. You implied she’s intentionally supporting racists, and again there is no evidence of that.

she showed up at a morgan wallen concert. that is explicit support of racism. you cannot unlink the two. the point of a dog whistle is to enable defenses like "oh but she was just at a concert that doesn't mean she supports his racism". no. it does. full stop. we live in an age where every single action you take is political and has meaning, whether you are actively thinking about it or not. if she hangs out with racists, she's supporting racists.

You’re generalizing all Morgan Wallen fans as racist…

They should choose a better artist to listen to then huh?

I wonder how many WNBA players get annoyed about trans stuff just because they get transvestigated continually when using public bathrooms

Reminder that this country is trying to completely wipe us out. I feel like because we're such a tiny fraction of the population cis people just don't perceive this as a massive issue to be bothered by. Which leads to takes like "What can [super famous celebrity athlete with a massive following] do about it?!" Like I don't know, be a fucking adult? Say literally anything about this specific issue? Especially if it's about this person's own teammate? The way people infantilize Clark is incredible and should be studied in the future. You can, in fact, be judged fairly by your own actions and the company you keep. Still waiting for a lot of white cis women to figure that one out.

But most importantly: fuck this stupid ass teammate of hers, and those supporters. Washington has a lot of these assholes and they're regarded as losers and mocked relentlessly. These clowns who bemoan the fact that they live in a deep blue state despite the fact that they've had the money and ability to leave for decades but won't because deep down they know red states ain't got shit for them.

My reddit has been absolutely buried with nothing but WNBA shit about Sophie. I burnt a stupid amount of time going through one post just to downvote every transphobic asshole before I had to smack myself to close it out.

but also

[Besticus Maximus]

I wonder how many WNBA players get annoyed about trans stuff just because they get transvestigated continually when using public bathrooms

This is actual full on elliot rogers misogyny

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tmz-reacher-star-alan-ritchson-beats-up-neighbor-after-being-shoved-off-bike-twice-on-video-updated-check-threadmarks.1470253/page-15#post-158566990

Yup. I don't agree with the folk that tried to fuck him over but riding your bikes loudly round a nice neighbourhood is still a dick thing to do. I don't get why people idolise him. I'd be gutted if he ended up as Batman after all the incessant fan casting.

The Karen's have infiltrated

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tmz-reacher-star-alan-ritchson-beats-up-neighbor-after-being-shoved-off-bike-twice-on-video-updated-check-threadmarks.1470253/page-15#post-158574184

This forum is insane.





Because it's a selfish thing to do. Who wants someone tearing round the neighbourhood like a jackass making a shit ton of noise. It's fucking annoying.  







Just because someone has an opinion that doesn't lineup with yours doesn't make it pearl clutching. He's being a loud asshole. No one wants to hear his bike.







No one is allowed to disagree with the hive mind.







It's fucking annoying when people run their loud bikes round your neighbourhood 







Nothing, I don't give a fuck how nice the neighbourhood is. Still an annoying thing to do. Go on the main road with it and fuck off.

And the typical Karen meltdown

[DavidCroquet]

The WNBA thread is a goldmine.

Caitlyn could lead by example....but....she won't and the people who overwhelmingly support her that came into watching the league alone because of her are also a shit crowd too.

Clark is being used by the bigoted racist right wing machine. That should be clear to everyone. These people did not give a fuck about women's sports or the WNBA prior. Clark comes in and brings attention and racist bigoted ass white people love nothing more than a new vector for their hateful bullshit.

The only people who can be trusted to ethically enjoy the WNBA before Caitlin Clark popped off are the people who were watching it before she started playing! 

Which is to say, basically no one. 

she showed up at a morgan wallen concert. that is explicit support of racism.

[HaughtyFrank]

They really just wanted to have a go at Caitlin Clark, didn't they? 

The whole controversy surrounding her reminds me a lot of when they accused Taylor Swift of not doing enough against her Nazi fans

[Daffy Duck]

Someone white

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-the-very-off-very-slim-chance-that-we-ever-get-a-space-jam-3-who-should-be-the-nba-player-at-the-lead.1591216/

[HaughtyFrank]

Someone white

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-the-very-off-very-slim-chance-that-we-ever-get-a-space-jam-3-who-should-be-the-nba-player-at-the-lead.1591216/

Imagine if it was Caitlin Clark 

[Let's Cyber]

The whole controversy surrounding her reminds me a lot of when they accused Taylor Swift of not doing enough against her Nazi fans

They assume and expect these celebs are as terminally online as they are.

This thread still sticks with me years later. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/maynard-james-keenan-of-tool-accused-of-rape.51496/

They demand these famous people should be constantly tapped into social media and must respond to every accusation. Once this particular instance was shown to be bullshit, the thread just died, and the posters demanding blood just never posted again.  

[Jansen]

I haven't had or wanted friends since, like, elementary school. Not that I'm opposed to multiplayer, because I've had a lot of fun playing COD and The Last of Us multiplayer solo over the years. I think it's perfectly fine for a game to be artistically or mechanically designed around co-op. But I'm not really a fan of co-op in games, so... whatever? I guess I'd like to see more options for random matchmaking but in a lot of these games that wouldn't really make sense.



I did play It Takes Two with my sister and it was an okay experience, but I wouldn't have touched that game if it didn't win Game of the Year.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-there-any-item-in-your-wardrobe-that-you-wouldnt-be-caught-dead-wearing-outside.1590610/#post-158546176

[DavidCroquet]

Proof positive that Erans have awful taste:

This was a gift someone gave to me 20 years ago I think

Why wouldn't anyone wear this magnificent piece as often as possible???

[Daffy Duck]

This fucking thread

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dj-envy-says-his-wife-had-to-show-him-how-to-wash-his-butt-properly-in-the-shower.1591396/

What is with dudes and improper butt hygiene? Homophobia has a grip on dudes.

[Taco Bell Tower]

OoT is an excellent Zelda game and its atmosphere it’s top notch… but you are not missing anything by knowing that “Link returns to his timeline”. The story is not that deep bro.

If the remake doesn’t fuck up the atmosphere and sudden creppy moments, you are going to have a good time regardless of knowing “important” spoilers like “Link gathers stones of power to make a rainbow bridge”.

There's maybe one actual twist but that one has been spoiled by every smash bros game lol

FFS, seriously y'all just couldn't keep it to yourselves.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/seattle-storm-owner-celeste-keaton-suspended-for-combatting-transphobia.1590934/page-2#post-158574814

Yup. Everything and anything is a front for the culture war. Gotta circle the wagons around dogshit music you might not even actually like...

[Boredfrom]

Wasn’t she suspended for screaming to two fans? 

Changing the framing will not change the outcome, specially because most people agree with those two.  

The goodwill they have for a decade is evaporating and they still don't get it.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/seattle-storm-owner-celeste-keaton-suspended-for-combatting-transphobia.1590934/#post-158562883

These assholes are wholly using the WNBA as a proxy for their bigoted bullshit. They don't care about women.

The fact they can't understand the irony that if you replace the word women with basketball you have exactly the same argument is just 

[DavidCroquet]

caring about sportsball is explicit support of racism.

[benji]

Very sus that the 2 girls "supporting" Sophie just happened to be wearing anti-trans shirts.

Who paid for their tix then?

[HaughtyFrank]

We constantly hear it in spaces like this - "They need to go back to focusing on the core Avengers!" (AKA the mostly straight white male characters) - I'm sure that sentiment exists to some degree at Marvel/Disney.

They all forgot how to make a captain america movie right when it starred a black man taking the mantle.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/variety-wonder-man-season-2-cancelled-wtf.1591432/post-158587612

You heard it here first, Brave new World sucks because Marvel hates black people. The Black director wanted it to fail!

[benji]

Actually, now that I think about it... Jeff didn't review that on Letterboxd and doesn't keep listing it in the objectively good films that came out last year.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Sounds about white.

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/street-fighter-blanka-vs-ryu-special-look-oct-16-jason-momoa-andrew-koji.1590994/

Kinda hard to get excited given who was cast for Dan, sadly.

[DavidCroquet]

trailer: *some old trashy bullshit reminescent of the bad old days of terrible videogame adaptations*

Neoxon: "I really want to get excited about this, truly! I would enthusiastically ingest this waste! However. I am not allowed. Because of the revelations..."

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/street-fighter-blanka-vs-ryu-special-look-oct-16-jason-momoa-andrew-koji.1590994/

Kinda hard to get excited given who was cast for Dan, sadly.

And not the Nazis cast for Akuma and Balrog? Or the fact its from Nazimount? 

[benji]

That reminds me, they were all upset about that Avatar fighting game having some guy consulting on it who was accused of something or other. But I saw somebody on Bluesky who correctly pointed out the larger praxis, you shouldn't be interested in it anyway because the money goes to genocidal Paramount. More proof that Era is not remotely a progressive place or where you can have any kind of discussion about actual leftist organizing and politics. And don't get me started on the clear lack of trans members on staff.

[Boredfrom]

We constantly hear it in spaces like this - "They need to go back to focusing on the core Avengers!" (AKA the mostly straight white male characters) - I'm sure that sentiment exists to some degree at Marvel/Disney.

Nothing to do with rewrites, Writer Strikes, Covid and pushing anything to get Disney+ subscribers.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tmz-reacher-star-alan-ritchson-beats-up-neighbor-after-being-shoved-off-bike-twice-on-video-updated-check-threadmarks.1470253/page-15#post-158566990

Yup. I don't agree with the folk that tried to fuck him over but riding your bikes loudly round a nice neighbourhood is still a dick thing to do. I don't get why people idolise him. I'd be gutted if he ended up as Batman after all the incessant fan casting.

The Karen's have infiltrated

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tmz-reacher-star-alan-ritchson-beats-up-neighbor-after-being-shoved-off-bike-twice-on-video-updated-check-threadmarks.1470253/page-15#post-158574184

This forum is insane.

Because it's a selfish thing to do. Who wants someone tearing round the neighbourhood like a jackass making a shit ton of noise. It's fucking annoying. 

Just because someone has an opinion that doesn't lineup with yours doesn't make it pearl clutching. He's being a loud asshole. No one wants to hear his bike.

No one is allowed to disagree with the hive mind.

It's fucking annoying when people run their loud bikes round your neighbourhood 

Nothing, I don't give a fuck how nice the neighbourhood is. Still an annoying thing to do. Go on the main road with it and fuck off.

And the typical Karen meltdown

Same forum that will defend kids who listen to loud music on speaker phone on the train or bus because of the colour of their skin or what they stick in their arse...

[Boredfrom]

Reading that article, this is some Westboro shit. I wonder who's bankrolling the teens?

We can also be smart enough to recognize after the fact the "fans" in question were a bankrolled bait and grift.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/seattle-storm-owner-celeste-keaton-suspended-for-combatting-transphobia.1590934/page-2

[benji]

My protests are the honest voice of the people, your protests are a bankrolled grift by a cult.

[Potato]

The whole controversy surrounding her reminds me a lot of when they accused Taylor Swift of not doing enough against her Nazi fans

They assume and expect these celebs are as terminally online as they are.

This thread still sticks with me years later. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/maynard-james-keenan-of-tool-accused-of-rape.51496/

They demand these famous people should be constantly tapped into social media and must respond to every accusation. Once this particular instance was shown to be bullshit, the thread just died, and the posters demanding blood just never posted again.  

Lol, I remember that thread. Maximum retardation. Reeeeiotous being a retarded fucking idiot again. 

It's a window into another world though where every accusation was immediately assumed to be a guilty verdict and the accused to be condemned regardless of evidence. Such a fucking idiotic time.

[benji]

My protests are the honest voice of the people, your protests are a bankrolled grift by a cult.

lmao, one of the other owners of the Seattle Storm:

While at Yale, Gilder was on the women's crew team. However, there was no locker room available for the women's crew team, so they had to wait on the bus after practice while the men showered before they could return to campus.[5]

In 1976, she was part of a protest in which nineteen members of the Yale women's crew wrote "TITLE IX" on their bodies and went into athletic director Joni Barnett's office naked, and then rower Chris Ernst read a statement about the way they were being treated.[6][7][8] This protest was noted by newspapers around the world, including The New York Times.[8][7] By 1977, a women's locker room was added to Yale's boathouse.[9]