'Jeopardy!' under fire over 'woke' question about pronouns

Fox News ^ | 2/28/24 | Emily Trainham

[DallasBiff]

In the category "Speech! Parts of Speech!", one of the contestants selected the $600 clue, which, as host Ken Jennings read, was "xem, xyrs, xemself." The same contestant buzzed in to answer "What are pronouns?", and Jennings awarded him the money, saying, "Those are pronouns, neopronouns."

The prefix "neo" means "new" – neopronouns are new pronouns, typically ones that are used to avoid "he" or "she."

[I want the USA back]

Xem isn’t pronouns. Xem is silly rantings of delusionary people.

I don’t watch Jeopardy, and certainly will not now.

[Fuzz]

Nearly everything.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Jeopardy is on ABC which is Disney which is uber-woke, at least until they get rid of Iger.

[null and void]

See my tagline...

[BigFreakinToad]

someone needs to punt Ken Jennings liberal ass over a goalpost.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

The Oxford English Dictionary adds around 1,000 new words a year.

And I'll bet none of them are the so-called pronouns from that Jeopardy! clue.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I’m sure the majority of the audience still skews rather old, but Jeopardy is doing all these things to interact with the audience which involves cell phones and PCs that the older audience is probably not as comfortable using. So Ken and company are probably deceiving themselves into thinking the audience is hip to this post-modern crap.

[xoxox]

pronouns were’s a problem when the rule that the masculine is the default was followed.

[Sirius Lee]

What is mental illness, Ken?

[Daveinyork]

The trannie lost.

[Political Junkie Too]

What are nonsense words that children make?

-PJ

[Fuzz]

Not yet. Should the terms be used more frequently then they probably will.

[william clark]

I would have gone with “What are nonsense words used as pronouns by narcissists?”

[Mouton]

The bottome right box has a place for the GFY reflective pronoun.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

And I still won’t use them.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“ as host Ken Jennings read, was “xem, xyrs, xemself.”

I HAVE IT, I HAVE THE ANSWER!!

What is “mental illness?

Ding ding ding right answer

[Magnum44]

I am sticking with Wheel of Fortune...

[bray]

You mean Art Flaming?

[P-Marlowe]

I have not watched a single episode of Jeopardy since Jennings replaced Trebeck.

[Bullish]

So is Merv Griffin.