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Trebek called sexist for asking Army Master Sergeant if being a woman made her job difficult
FOX News ^ | December 20, 2017 | Kathleen Joyce

Posted on 12/20/2017 4:36:28 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek was slammed by social media users Tuesday after he asked a contestant if her job as an Army Master Sergeant was hard because she was a woman.

Trebek made the comment while asking the show’s three contestants basic questions about their lives to introduce the audience to the participants. Lisa Beth Davis, a retired Army Master Sergeant, took Trebek’s question in stride.

Trebek asked the woman: “That must be really tough for a woman because a master sergeant is giving orders most of the time. How was it for you?”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: alextrebek; finaljeopardy; jeopardy; lisabethdavis; sexism; trebek
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I happened to watch this episode and thought...someone will complain. Now, about some of those anti-male TV ads.

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1 posted on 12/20/2017 4:36:28 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Social media users = sociopaths on Twitter


2 posted on 12/20/2017 4:39:20 PM PST by relictele
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He’s really old, they need to cut him some slack.
He was just trying to make conversation and be amusing.


3 posted on 12/20/2017 4:40:00 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: ConservativeStatement

Women shouldn’t be Master Sargents.


4 posted on 12/20/2017 4:40:16 PM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall")
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“Can I have ‘Bed Wetting Snowflakes’ for $200 Alex?”


5 posted on 12/20/2017 4:41:01 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: ConservativeStatement

So, on the one hand, the liberal view is that we are a bigoted sexist nation, and that women have it tougher than men. And that’s especially true if women are in a predominantly male environment, which the military is.

But on the other hand, we apparently are bigoted and sexist if we comment on such a situation. The situation exists per liberals, but we also aren’t supposed to ever mention anything about it.


6 posted on 12/20/2017 4:41:38 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ConservativeStatement

Who the hell dislikes Alex Trebek?


7 posted on 12/20/2017 4:43:40 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yep. Liberals want it both ways. Now if the victim brings it up, it is ok.


8 posted on 12/20/2017 4:44:15 PM PST by Nevadan
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Nobody talks about fight club, either....


9 posted on 12/20/2017 4:44:30 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (I would rather be deplorable than detestable.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Hate to think how angry they’d be over how ones like Bert Convy or Bob Barker or Gene Rayburn or (of course) Richard Dawson would treat female contestants back in a time like 1981, lol.


10 posted on 12/20/2017 4:47:01 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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11 posted on 12/20/2017 4:48:19 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Last week, I saw Nancy Sinatra on a TV show hosted by Bert Convy from the late 1970s (?) and she said she wasn’t a fan of Gloria Steinem and her philosophy.


12 posted on 12/20/2017 4:49:28 PM PST by ConservativeStatement ("Silence is violence.")
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Which ones. The bashing of husbands and boyfriends is endless


13 posted on 12/20/2017 4:51:27 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: DesertRhino

Pat Sajak.


14 posted on 12/20/2017 4:53:20 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: CGASMIA68

And more often white men are belittled. From the chick in the club who mocks the guy hitting on her, from the white guy who is hit in the noggin by a ball thrown by a non-white, by every burglar being white male, by men who can’t hammer a nail properly. So many. If any situation was different, we’d hear about racism and sexism. I make it a point not to purchase such products.


15 posted on 12/20/2017 4:54:23 PM PST by ConservativeStatement ("Silence is violence.")
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16 posted on 12/20/2017 4:55:25 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: TADSLOS

Hit please!

Who is this and why does he matter?


17 posted on 12/20/2017 4:57:46 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Not long ago, I watched on YouTube TPIR’s Christmas episode from about 1981, with Bob, the original models, and Johnny Olson and one of the prizes shown was a woman’s fur coat, lol.


18 posted on 12/20/2017 5:02:34 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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Towards the end of my military career, we had to make rooms available so female soldiers could nurse or pump breast milk, and we also had to supply them with mini-refridgerators just for them to store it.

I have nothing against mothers, breast feeding, or any of the sort.

However, the mission of the military is to use lethal force, not to be a daycare center.

19 posted on 12/20/2017 5:13:27 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: dfwgator

Celeb Jeopardy on SNL was the best!


20 posted on 12/20/2017 5:18:15 PM PST by GnuThere
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