'Jeopardy!' Under Fire From Conservative Viewers - Here's Why

[Coventina]

While most Jeopardy! fans are enjoying the tense and often surprising 2024 Tournament of Champions, some conservative viewers are losing their minds over a recent ‘pronouns’ puzzle.

On Monday’s (February 26) episode, Season 39 super-champ Cris Pannullo selected the $600 puzzle under the “Speech! Parts of Speech!” category. The clue read, “Xem, Xyrs, Xemself,” to which Pannullo correctly answered, “What are pronouns?”

“Those are pronouns,” host Ken Jennings confirmed, adding more specifically, “Neopronouns.”

For those unfamiliar, xem/xyrs/xemself are gender-neutral pronouns that have recently grown in popularity. In fact, the social media app Instagram lets users apply pronoun and neopronoun options, including she, her, hers, he, him, his, they, them, thon, thons, hir, ze, zir, zie, xe, xem, xyr, and many more.

Of course, this ruffled the feathers of some viewers who seemingly fear anything against the norm.

“I will NEVER watch Jeopardy after this. After Alex [Trebek], it all went downhill,” wrote one fan on X (formerly Twitter).

“@Jeopardy lost a lifetime fan over pronouns,” said another. “Never thought you would condone mental illness for viewership.”

“I still watch Jeopardy every day but their questions and answers keep getting weirder and weirder,” added one commenter. “When Alex Trebek was still alive we never had any of this.”

https://www.tvinsider.com/1124635/jeopardy-pronouns-puzzle-ken-jennings-tournament-of-champions/

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Oh the anguish of the haters!!!



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[jcgoldie]

1. Wicked wicked pronounses!

We HATES XEM! We HATES XEM!

[Initech]

2. Tell them to go shove their transphobia up their you know what.

So tired of these assholes having to stick their nose in places where it doesn't belong.

[DBoon]

3. Just wait until Jeopardy does adverbs

Grammar is a woke plot!

[Aristus]

4. I didn't know right-wingers watched "Jeopardy!"

All that book-larnin' on display like that. Edjamacashun is un-Amurrikkkan!

[MineralMan]

5. To hell with xem!

[ms liberty]

6. Poor broflakes and snowflakes. Bless their fragile little hearts. n/t.

[senseandsensibility]

7. I knew what this would be about before I even clicked on it

Watch Jeopardy every night with the hubby. Some people just gotta be haters, I guess.

[LiberalFighter]

8. They think Alex Trebeck made all those decisions?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Boo Hoo

[rockbluff botanist]

10. Jeopardy version of "Get off my yard"

Old maggots, go watch reruns of old Jeopardy shows. That was your time. Your time is gone, as alas, is mine.

Make way for this generation. You can kick and scream all you want, but you can't stop time and CHANGE!!

[rurallib]

11. hope they know how to operate their remotes

[multigraincracker]

12. I always say...

Call me anything except late for dinner.

[madinmaryland]

13. Ironic that one person is complaining about "Xem, Xyrs, Xemself" on the site "Xitter". Moran!