Shawn Mendes Accused of Misgendering Sam Smith

[penelopetaynt]

Twitter is up in flames after Shawn Mendes accidentally misgendered Sam Smith during recent Jingle Ball introduction.

shawn mendes really misgendered sam smith 26 times in a row on national television 😕pic.twitter.com/tJlBiBSRXw
- nick is streaming evermore (@beyscardigan) December 11, 2020

Comments

[therearewords]

Just don't duet to make up.

[iznanassi]

God that would be the whiniest song ever

[therearewords]

Cats around the world would revolt.

[milkradio]

your comments always make me lmao

[ritaamber]

Listen i stan Sam, I've followed them on tour and live for them and I still fuck up but I correct immediately. He apologized and learned and Sam acknowledged. It's a learning moment not a cancel moment.

[these_eyes_lie]

Tweets like that make me hate the internet. “26 times?” He did it twice. Stfu.

Also, IT HAPPENS. You apologize, correct yourself and move on. I volunteer with LGBT kids and the first day I misgendered someone I felt so fucking awful. I apologized, they said it was OK and we moved on.

[weighty_ghost]

Thanks for pointing that out because reading that tweet made me wonder how long the intro was if pronouns came up 26 times.

[t_snake]

This is when I agree w the psychos. This is not a cancel moment (despite the fact I'd like him to be cancelled as his voice annoys me so much!) And a sign of overly toxic PC culture . This should be a learning moment. Of course misgendering is wrong!!! But I also understand how it can happen. He apologised and learnt. We need more positive examples of learning instead of just pointing fingers in hate

[genbu_no_miko24]

Yeah it becomes a issue because aspects the internet like stan twitter make it all into a joke/moot point.

They are either waiting to cancel someone like an angry god or defend their faves with an army. Like no middle ground in this chaotic abyss.

Which obvs affects actual progress cause their voices and actions are too loud.

[crystalzelda]

It's not even the fault of 'pc culture' that at it's base aims to educate to create a kinder, more understanding and inclusive world. It's that people take it and perverse it to use as cudgels to punish those they hate and legitimize abusing them online. It's why you see people absolutely destroying *insert privileged white person* they hate for some sort of ism while vociferously defending or coyly calling *insert privileged white person* they love their problematic fave who has also committed similar, if not the same, isms. Like... they don't care. They just want an excuse to get other people to stop supporting them and tweet abuse at them on Twitter cause it's acceptable in this case!

[genbu_no_miko24]

Yep. The actual part is about educating and change gets buried under all the clout-seeking/PR/Branding/biases/self-gain cookie points.

The part about the faves is 100%

You see it even on here but stan twitter is truly the chaotic abyss. They don’t cate about change they want you to either hate or love certain celebs with hyperfixative passion.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Unless there’s more video footage of him, he only said 2 times, not 26 times.

Some of these people really do social activism but give me clout/attention.

That’s good that Shawn apologized.