Posted on 04/01/2020 8:01:15 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
UPDATE: An earlier version of this article misgendered Sam Smith as 'him'. It should have read 'them'. The error has been corrected.
At the iHeart 'Living Room Concert for America' held on Sunday, March 30, Elton John hosted an hour-long special to raise funds for all the heroes and pillars of society working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic: aka the health care workers and first responders.
The event saw performances by Billie Eilish, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, the Backstreet Boys, Tim McGraw, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, H.E.R., Sam Smith and more. However, what caught social media's attention was one little slip-up at John's end, when the music legend referred to Sam Smith as a 'he'.
Grammy-winning singer Smith had come out as non-binary back in September 2019, announcing that they have changed their pronouns to gender-neutral ones: they/them/their.
However, Smith getting misgendered hasn't happened for the first time; more recently 'The Project' host Carrie Bickmore had also opened up in her Daily Telegraph column about coming close to misgendering Smith's pronouns during an interview with them. Despite making her best efforts, Bickmore claimed she came close to screwing up.
While some fans are ready to give John the benefit of the doubt, others have taken a far more aggressive stance, or as pop culture loves to call it: cancel him. But it wasn't until the extreme comments correlating Sam Smith's anatomy and preferred gender came in that a full-on war waged on Twitter. "y’all really expect a 73 year old man to know someone’s requested gender (which is mostly, if not only known if you spend time on the internet). get sam smith ‘s nuts out of your mouth and stop blaming elton john who’s an LGBT icon," reasoned a fan defending John, but the real war started with comments like "Sam Smith is a man. If Elton John called him a male pronoun, he didn't misgender him."
Sam Smith is male.
But he’s not a man.
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Not even Elton John is PC enough.
When Elton John is the voice of sanity....
He announced that he know self identifies as multiple beings and should be referred to as “they”.
...coming from the man who thinks his ass is a vagina. Sorry Elton, your the last to bark on options!
That is possibly the craziest, funniest thing ever posted on Free Republic.
As a male lesbian, I am not too distraught over Sir Eltons bigoted introduction....
Does he have a mouse in his pocket?
Not from where I'm sittin'.
There used to be mental institutions for a reason. This crazy moron is one of them/they/it.
I wish there was another planet I could go to and just sit back and watch what happens to this planet.
These poor bastards don’t know which end is up....so to speak...
Just like their predecessors in the Soviet Union, the post-modern American Left will eventually collapse under the weight of its own internal contradictions.
Go pound sand, Mr Smith
They? Them?
So he’s not only confused about his gender, he’s also got multiple/split personality? Poor GUY.
"How to speak San Franciscan..........Va-joy-na!"
“...announcing that they have changed their pronouns to gender-neutral ones: they/them/their. ...”
“...announcing that IT has changed ITS pronouns to gender-neutral ones: It/It/It...”
There. Fixed “it”. That neutral enough for the freak show?
Damn, how I miss the WWII generation America... more and more every damn day.
And I damn well want it back... by any means necessary, at this point.
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