Shawn mendes misgendered Sam smith on iheart jingle ball 2020

[Chlorine 47,976]

Sam Smith is male presenting so.... this is understandable given not everyone keeps tabs on everyone's instagram bio.

This is an innocent mistake. 

[StarstruckIllusion 53,041]

I sympathize. Idk why but I always have to hard catch myself to make sure I don’t say the wrong pronouns. He clearly didn’t mean any harm tho so like what’s w the toxicity??

[TheSlash 14,539]

The way he unintentionally mispronounced Sam and some of y'all act as if he burned all of the worlds' trees  . Calm down, as long as he apologizes it's not THAT big of a deal.

Also, this pronoun thing is relatively new and people are still used to only have he/she. Give us time to adopt, please

[Anderson123 39,051]

12 minutes ago, Jill said:

Everybody knows what Sam's pronouns are. Reported

You really need to calm down if you're not trolling lol. No, not EVERYBODY knows what Sam's pronouns are. Have you taken a look at the world right now ? I think there are more important stuff happening right now for people to catch up on this.

[BlondeQueenOfGGD 25,454]

It was an honest mistake, some of you sound so angry

[Alvaro Moreno Ullrich 1,554]

25 minutes ago, Jill said:

Everybody knows what Sam's pronouns are. Reported

What are yours? So I can say I love you very politely

[SchwineLove 1,374]

A mess. Compose your tone if you intend towards progressive understanding, not just attacking. How annoying discourse.

[Jill 30,415]

Just now, Anderson123 said:

You really need to calm down if you're not trolling lol. No, not EVERYBODY knows what Sam's pronouns are. Have you taken a look at the world right now ? I think there are more important stuff happening right now for people to catch up on this.

I'm half joking but the user I quoted really could have worded their comment in a better way

[Jill 30,415]

Just now, Alvaro Moreno Ullrich said:

What are yours? So I can say fvck you very politely

Oh I fvck myself daily with the daily choices I make don't worry

[PunkTheFunk 124,656]

Electric chair

[SKANK 14,288]

If people re-framed the idea of misgendering as a matter of impoliteness rather then an act of violence, there would be a lot less resistance for non-queer folks adapting to non-bianary pro-nouns, and a lot less unnecessary hostility when people slip up.

 

Self-reported. 

 

[KingRedd 3,139]

16 minutes ago, Bonkers said:

No, self righteous waiting for someone to not be as woke as you think you are.  Honestly, it's like you LOVE this kind of accidental thing so you can show how woke you are.  It's really annoying.

MTE 

[REALITY 77,706]

16 minutes ago, spicemuncher said:

It happens. Move on.

A declaration of pronouns on social media is not a long lasting imprint in everyone’s brain. I forget most of the time, luckily I don’t have a camera in front of my face to catch what I say.

There are far worse things in the world. Calm down.

I agree that there are bigger things in the world, but if someone wants to go by another set of pronouns, then people should be respectful of that. I don't think Shawn was ill-intentioned, so I certainly don't think he could be "cancelled," but I do think we need to remind people of these things because if we don't, no progress can be made. 

[Quartz 12,576]

People forget, it's an honest mistake. Took me a while to remember they were a them 

 

[Jill 30,415]

Guys come on  don't drag me like this. First of all, I didn't report anyone here. Second of all, my point still stands: that Shawn could have been mistaken and in that case he should apologize, no one will be mad at him the same way no one is mad at someone using the wrong pronouns the first few times. Sam Smith had a highly publicized pronoun change so I'm surprised that someoen in the industry isn't aware of this. But I'm not mad at anyone and I respect your stance as long as you don't deny the existence of NB people. And no one is so that's that.