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."
Now, that is funny.....
Maybe a Gerbil?
...then the entire natural world is officially insane.
We are so far down the rabbit hole there is no light behind us.
Thankfully all of society’s problems are solved so morons on social media can do battle over a nut job who thinks he is a “they”, whatever that is. As well as revering a squirrel-ly has been pop star who hasn’t turned out a decent record in 40 years.
Disclaimer: I have several of his albums from the early days when he was making some very good music.
But.......”Those days are gone forever, over a long time ago, oh yeah”
Does “non-binary” mean that the guy’s balls are not in the same sack but are hanging “free” to go their own ways?
Gender neutral? Also brainless idiot?
I think something like that, LOL.
For the love of sanity let us not go there!
Fleetwood Mac said it best...
You can go your own way!
You can call IT another gay!
When I was a kid, I heard all sorts of variations on my name. At first, I would correct them. But my dad sat me down and said, “Hey. Nobody _means_ to do that. They don’t know and people can forget. You’ll know when someone _really_ means it.” So I “live and let live.” Sometimes I’ll say “close enough” if I think someone should really know better. But I try to get other people’s name right.
Point: I don’t think “trans” people should get bent out of shape if someone gets their pronoun “wrong.” People are trying to be proper, not insulting. Even “allies.”
Enabling the mentally ill in their fantasies does not help them.
Never heard of any of them except Mariah. I know nothing about her, other then that she's been mentioned here on FR in the past.
Who or what is a Sam Smith?
If you witness a murder be sure to give the description as they so as not to offend anyone.
This whole gender neutral nonsense is just a way to get attention.
It is merely to control others by people who would never be able to work their way to be in a position of power to control others.
This is the extension of the race name game.
“I have nothing against blacks.”
“YOU’RE RACIST! THE PROPER TERM IS PEOPLE OF COLOR!!!”
“I have nothing against people of color.”
“YOU’RE RACIST! THE PROPER TERM IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN!!!”
“I have nothing against African-Americans.”
“YOU’RE RACIST! THE PROPER TERM IS BLACK!”
Now, if you accept Sam Smith’s gayosity, you get canceled for not calling him an it. Personally, I will dump on the guy for stealing Tom Petty’s song (even though he eventually gave credit and money).
Since “he” or “him” aren’t acceptable, that leaves only “it” or “freak” which would have been my selections at the outset of this farce.
I can also think of a category of beings that refer to themselves in the plural.
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