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Comedy Pronouns · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mama. Dear mama, why are we making
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  English more difficult just for political reasons? Well, let's ask our American mama,
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  Mama, mama, and joining us now our American MoMA Terry Nunaville.
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  Um. We've talked before on the show about how saying I have my own
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  pronouns is like saying I have my own adjectives. My adjectives are smart and
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  handsome. You cannot refer to me as anything else now because those are my
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  adjectives, and if you're Steve phobic, right, okay. So, but
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  it takes sometimes a comedian to really cut through the nonsense in a way.
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  I think you feel that way without a doubt. I feel like that comedians
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  are the ones who can They can articulate like this dupidity of it all with
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  humor and then they it and we're able to laugh about it and look at
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  each other go, that's so true. This is ridiculous. Okay. So
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  there is a comedian who was talking English is a second language. He's been
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  here for three years, and he talks about how difficult this whole pronoun thing
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  is for someone trying to learn English. It took me three years to learn.
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  I am you are his, he whoever you want. This is a
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  free country and this is amazing. But this whole gender neutral pronoun it's cool
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  fusing for me. You know. Let me tell you what he started.
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  I invited a friend to have dinner at my house the other day and he
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  was like, oh, I'm bringing a friend and I said, of course
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  bringing. He was like no, no, no, no, no,
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  bring dam So I bought a lot of food. And he goes on to
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  talk about how when this friend stood up with just one other person, he
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  was like, you were eating all these pizzas, eating all these chicken wings,
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  he said. When he walked in with his brand, he said,
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  where is everybody? Where are they? Yeah? And he he looked at
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  his one friend and said, they are right here. And he said,
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  well you tell him, You tell them they have a lot to eat.
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  They better get busy eating. And it's so true. I thought, this
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  is because the English language think about that this is somebody that came from another
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  country, right, And everyone does talk about how our language is so difficult
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  because we have a lot of words that are spelled exactly the same, right,
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  but you read them differently, or you read them differently or our ead
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  I mean, that's just an example, or they sound the same exactly,
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  and you have the gh in the middle of something where it's just silent,
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  you know. But when he talked about the pronouns, think about that,
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  because that's how we grew up, right, you know? He she right,
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  that's one they them, that's plural. Right. So now we're in
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  this world where we have to conform. We don't have to conform, but
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  they want us to conform to their way, their language, and if we
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  don't, if we don't, then we're somehow transphobic, or we're bigot,
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  or we don't No, no, no, no, I don't understand this.
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  I think I speak for a lot of people when I say this,
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  How is it that we must conform to their lingo, to their language?
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  And yet if we don't want them to refer to us as a CIS woman
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  or a CIS man, or why is it that we have to conform to
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  them? But they never they don't. Not only do they not have to
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  conform to what we've known all of our lives and what we feel comfortable with,
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  but they don't get called names, they don't get canceled That's an interesting
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  point because the term ciss is never used by someone as a positive thing.
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  No, it's used as a way of talking down to Oh you're a normy
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  right right, Oh you it's a it's a word that was completely made up
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  to make people who aren't unusual feel inferior. Yes, it's maddening. It's
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  maddening, and for a little while, you know, Denise lan I would
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  always say comedians have to stay in firm right in their comedy because we were
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  so afraid. You know, if you talked to a lot of the leftist
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  liberals, like the very far left, the crazy ones, they don't have
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  a sense of humor. Nothing's funny to them, right, They're really kind
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  of mean and bullish whenever you if you get on Twitter for you're on social
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  media. So we were so worried because some comedians were being canceled, right,
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  they were being fired. Yes, yes, even Dave Chappelle, who
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  is on both sides of the aisle a lot of time, especially on the
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  left. Even he was they were trying to cancel him. You had people
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  on Saturday Night Live that were getting fired right because they said ten years ago.
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  And yet others who were liberal you know, like Jimmy Kimmel who had
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  black face or was you know, I've had a chauvinistic show. Yeah,
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  it was totally fine. And so I think that now we're I think we've
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  hit this place where we are completely done with this, and comedians are starting
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  to get stronger in their burbage about it. And I love especially these who
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  come from another country who were unabashedly unafraid to stand up for what's right and
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  to call out the stupidity and the ridiculousness of what is happening in American today.
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  And that is one of them. Well, and my favorite part of
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  this skit was she said, it's a free country. Do what you want.
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  Yeah, that's right, absolutely huge one. But don't make me do
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  your thing. Yes, I don't. Why should I have to do the
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  ridiculous thing? Yes, it's you know, I saw there was a transgender
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  congress uh woman, a transgender up in Montana. Yes, yes, and
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  she got on the floor of the chambers and she was being absolutely inappropriate obnoxious.
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  Yeah, and she's leading a riot. Yes, I was gonna say
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  she led a riot. These people came in, these activists came in,
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  and I thought, imagine if we did that, if we came in as
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  an insurrection into their place, they called it January sixth. If you let
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