They wants to be mummy

[InTheShadowOfTheMushroomCloud]

Words fail me...

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Sam Smith seems very desperate to be in the news.

Surely they mean 'parent of unspecified gender'?

How can SS denounce sex/gender/whatever but then decide they want to be 'mummy'? Are they not a bit confused? Please someone tell me how this works because it makes no sense to me.

I want to be a size 8.

The only thing me and them have got in common is that it ain’t ever going to happen.

As said, you can’t demand a them/they and then want to be something exclusively female.

I find the horrendous grammar that this generates very hard to read.

It sends my (quite strong) error radar into overdrive so I end up losing any actual points there may have been (the Pronouns are Rohypnol Effect to disguise the weakness of the argument?)

Has anybody seen how this pronoun usage works irl - esp they/them? I still can't work out how you politely use pronouns other than 'you' to someone's face or in their earshot. SS has apparently had to develop great patience to deal with the 'misgendering'.

Sam smith

Reading that it sounds like he was a bit fat, so decided he must be a woman because the ideal for men is not to be a bit fat. Did he see a Reubens painting and think look, it’s me?
Sounds like he’s unafraid of everything except reality

In the context of the sentence (watching them grow, being there every day) I assume they meant take the traditional role of the nurturing SAHM parent- usually the 'mummy'.
Ironically strongly reinforcing gender stereotypes they claim to have rejected.

Has anybody seen how this pronoun usage works irl - esp they/them? I still can't work out how you politely use pronouns other than 'you' to someone's face or in their earshot.

Using they/them for unspecified individuals of unknown sex is actually perfectly standard and has been in common usage for centuries. You can find examples in Shakespeare. You just use the words as normal eg 'they want'. Tbh I think it's so normal that we only notice it when a person of known sex makes a fuss about wanting to use it.

Wanting to use 'they' and then appropriating a role strongly associated with the opposite sex is rank hypocrisy. And that's before we get to how this ambition would be achieved - SS will doubtless have little trouble determining which type of human he would need to rent.

@ErrolTheDragon

Surely they mean 'parent of unspecified gender'?

Its 'non birthing parent of unspecified gender' if you please

It's really not kind of the media to make a big splash of these sort of meanderings.

But "...we're changing a language here," is chilling.

I see it's an article in The Independent. I'm not going to help them along by clicking on it, I'm afraid.

We've always had vacuous celebrities spouting nonsense getting written up in the papers or interviewed on TV. When did we start telling people they were bigots if they pointed out that what they say doesn't stand up to critical scrutiny and is anti-scientific?

@ErrolTheDragon

Has anybody seen how this pronoun usage works irl - esp they/them? I still can't work out how you politely use pronouns other than 'you' to someone's face or in their earshot.

Using they/them for unspecified individuals of unknown sex is actually perfectly standard and has been in common usage for centuries. You can find examples in Shakespeare. You just use the words as normal eg 'they want'. Tbh I think it's so normal that we only notice it when a person of known sex makes a fuss about wanting to use it.

Wanting to use 'they' and then appropriating a role strongly associated with the opposite sex is rank hypocrisy. And that's before we get to how this ambition would be achieved - SS will doubtless have little trouble determining which type of human he would need to rent.

Yes, he’ll need a ‘cervix haver’, natch. Aka handmaiden

Has anyone got a screenshot? My Facebook is reading this as unavailable

I will be interested to see this play out in public in all its glory. I hope people squirm.

Hmm.

Parenting requires a certain degree of selflessness and centring of someone else.

I think Sam Smith might find that a bit of a challenge, big navel-gazer that he is.

Sorry, that they is.

(If he does go ahead with this, I hope he gets someone else to help with their offspring’s English grammar homework).

Presumably they’s intending to hire a uterusman to create the baby they is going to mummy?

uterusman

Handmaiden. How would that go?
Under their eye?

Sam Smith has a dodgy partner feeding all kinds of nonsense into Sam Smith’s ear. Isn’t wanting to be a Mummy appropriation? Why isn’t it frowned upon then?

@SkaraBrae

In the context of the sentence (watching them grow, being there every day) I assume they meant take the traditional role of the nurturing SAHM parent- usually the 'mummy'. Ironically strongly reinforcing gender stereotypes they claim to have rejected.

This. I wanted to say exactly this but didn’t phrase it as elegantly.

Well, unless they are planning to have their brain pulled out through their nose, before being pickled in natron & bandages & bricked up in a pyramid for eternity, I can't see how that's going to work for them.

A whole thread on this person was removed because even though this person is frequently presenting themselves in the news in interviews, apparently it can’t be discussed here .

I think someone’s family need to step on now. This is getting quite... sad.