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Sam Smith - Neither a man or a woman?!

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  • Subscribers Posts: 41,942 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    razorblunt wrote: »
    He said this to Jameela Jamil. She seems to be gaslighting a lot of this stuff.


    I don't really know what gaslighting means.
    I don't really know what a Jameela Jamil is.

    Every hot blooded male should know what a jameela Jamil is.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Autecher


    Had the misfortune to see some of this chancer’s set at Electric Picnic a few years ago. Absolute drivel.

    A cnut making music for cnuts who don’t really like music. Total sh1t.


    .....oh, and he’s quite clearly a gay MAN. No matter what he pretends to keep himself in the limelight. Well, he couldn’t be depending on his “talent” anyway.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    navel-gazing
    noun

    self-indulgent or excessive contemplation of oneself


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,273 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Only Sam Smith knows what's going on inside his brain and how he feels. None of us can call him a liar or tell him his feelings are wrong.

    I never understand why people get so worked up about this kind of thing. If you don't feel that way, that's fine, but what's the point in being so dismissive and disrespectful to other people?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,442 ✭✭✭NSAman


    What does that make Linda Martin?

    Embalmed!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 533 ✭✭✭poolboy


    Only Sam Smith knows what's going on inside his brain and how he feels. None of us can call him a liar or tell him his feelings are wrong.

    I never understand why people get so worked up about this kind of thing. If you don't feel that way, that's fine, but what's the point in being so dismissive and disrespectful to other people?

    Well it annoys me because i have kids growing up in a world where people are afraid to tell these clowns to grow up stop attention seeking and be who they are.
    Anyone who genuinely believes they are non binary needs help in my opinion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Only Sam Smith knows what's going on inside his brain and how he feels. None of us can call him a liar or tell him his feelings are wrong.

    I never understand why people get so worked up about this kind of thing. If you don't feel that way, that's fine, but what's the point in being so dismissive and disrespectful to other people?

    So unless you accept at face value all claims made by people, then you are being 'dismissive' and 'disrespectful'? People are entitled to question the veracity of any claim made. It doesn't require much understanding.

    He, Sam Smyth, publicly came out with this. Therefore it is valid material for public discussion.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Only Sam Smith knows what's going on inside his brain and how he feels. None of us can call him a liar or tell him his feelings are wrong.

    I never understand why people get so worked up about this kind of thing. If you don't feel that way, that's fine, but what's the point in being so dismissive and disrespectful to other people?

    Because its utter nonsense and it creates more utter nonsense. The world needs less utter nonsense imo.

    He is a man. The science is factual despite what he thinks he may be. End of.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    He can't be simply a gay man,nooooooo,gotta be more than that when your in the spotlight,

    "Maybe I'm just me"


    Fine,be you,it's not fcking news.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭Abugarcia


    Sam Smith can identify as a bowl of porridge for all I care! I do have a problem though if society expects me to address him as a bowl of porridge!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    I think I float somewhere in between'

    s/he's a floater :D


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    poolboy wrote: »
    Well it annoys me because i have kids growing up in a world where people are afraid to tell these clowns to grow up stop attention seeking and be who they are.
    Anyone who genuinely believes they are non binary needs help in my opinion.

    Unless what they really are is non-binary or trans....


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Only Sam Smith knows what's going on inside his brain and how he feels. None of us can call him a liar or tell him his feelings are wrong.

    I never understand why people get so worked up about this kind of thing. If you don't feel that way, that's fine, but what's the point in being so dismissive and disrespectful to other people?

    He says he thinks like a woman. I’m a woman and I haven’t a notion how other women think.

    He’s saying it like all us women think in a certain way and for that, it’s Sam Smith who is being disrespectful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,273 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    poolboy wrote: »
    Well it annoys me because i have kids growing up in a world where people are afraid to tell these clowns to grow up stop attention seeking and be who they are.
    How do you know it's attention-seeking? Unless you are Sam Smith, you don't know his motives for doing this.
    Anyone who genuinely believes they are non binary needs help in my opinion.
    I'm sure they do need help sorting out their thoughts. Bottling things up is never good. Maybe this is his way of doing that? Maybe he's looking for advice.
    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Because its utter nonsense and it creates more utter nonsense. The world needs less utter nonsense imo.

    He is a man. The science is factual despite what he thinks he may be. End of.
    I am a man. I have never felt like anything other than a man so I can't understand how someone would feel that they were born into a body that doesn't match what they feel in their brain.

    However, I am happy to listen to someone saying they feel different and let them explain themselves, instead of just going "Well, I was born into a man's body and I'm a man so it should be the same for you". That's an extremely narrow-minded way of looking at it. I wouldn't automatically think that person is trying to get attention either.

    What is so wrong about giving people the chance to express their feelings, no matter how different or hard to comprehend that they may be?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I despair.

    They will be able to look back at this generation in history and say, "well, that's where it started to go t1ts up".

    I think just about every generation in the history of our species has said that about the ones following, to be fair.

    Either way, it's going to take an absolutely monumental effort by millennials to beat out the "baby boomer" generation most of the world had post WWII when it comes to making a mess of the world.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    I know people say that da kidz are saying this stuff because it’s fashionable. But I cannot imagine being anything other than happy at being a woman. I love being a woman. I can’t imagine any fashion making me say anything else. So there must be something to these people saying they don’t feel like they are the gender they are born with, right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    It's cool to be different, innit bruv.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,580 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    He can't be simply a gay man,nooooooo,gotta be more than that when your in the spotlight,

    "Maybe I'm just me"


    Fine,be you,it's not fcking news.

    To remain edgey and exciting he'll soon come out as straight, his next album will be called "I love tits".

    Glazers Out!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Unless what they really are is non-binary or trans....

    Probably pretty unlikely statistically. "Confused" celebrities really don't help guide people.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,174 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Billy86 wrote: »
    Either way, it's going to take an absolutely monumental effort by millennials to beat out the "baby boomer" generation most of the world had post WWII when it comes to making a mess of the world.
    What a load of steaming turd bollocks. The vast majority of the stuff some of the right on "millennials" are spouting about came from the "boomers". Social justice, feminism, contraception choices, Gay rights, abortion, divorce, antiwar, Race rights, the environment? All subjects first tackled by boomers and it was the same "boomers" who got that stuff into legislation long before "millennials" were even born. Ireland? She came late to the party on many such things, but even there it was Generation X that got most of that stuff across the line and it was them who bid adieu to the Church here. About the only thing millennials helped get across the line in Ireland was the abortion referendum and even there with a large chunk of Generation X help. The very IT you're using to type that post is overwhelmingly of boomer/generation X's making.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    How do you know it's attention-seeking? Unless you are Sam Smith, you don't know his motives for doing this.

    I'm sure they do need help sorting out their thoughts. Bottling things up is never good. Maybe this is his way of doing that? Maybe he's looking for advice.


    I am a man. I have never felt like anything other than a man so I can't understand how someone would feel that they were born into a body that doesn't match what they feel in their brain.

    However, I am happy to listen to someone saying they feel different and let them explain themselves, instead of just going "Well, I was born into a man's body and I'm a man so it should be the same for you". That's an extremely narrow-minded way of looking at it. I wouldn't automatically think that person is trying to get attention either.

    What is so wrong about giving people the chance to express their feelings, no matter how different or hard to comprehend that they may be?

    It’s a literally scientific way of looking at it.

    People can express what they want and we can express our ridicule.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,728 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Im not saying he can't. I just find it odd that it's only when it comes to gender that it is socially acceptable to lie.
    That's why that Dutch businessman last year wanted to be legally recognised as being 20 years younger than his actual age. He might have been trolling (through the courts) but he was trying to make that point, I think.

    Either way, I'm not bothered. Actually, I'd heard the name Sam Smith for years without knowing if the singer was male and female. Now I 'know' it's neither! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,592 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    When you're no longer the only gay in the village, it's time to crank it up a level.

    Learned what a demisexual is yesterday. Fascinating, what was once considered romantic or traditional is now 'demisexual'.

    Reminds me of five spice.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,174 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    He says he thinks like a woman.
    I'd reckon SM, he thinks, and I use the term loosely, like an empty vessel fame hungry performer type, sucking in anything in the zeitgeist that makes him feel relevant and since trans stuff is of the moment, bingo, he's latched onto it. I don't know of the guy from Adam, but I'd not be shocked to find out he's also said he's mentally ill(a "fashionable" condition of course) or on the spectrum or whatever you're having yourself.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Hoboo wrote: »
    When you're no longer the only gay in the village, it's time to crank it up a level.

    Learned what a demisexual is yesterday. Fascinating, what was once considered romantic or traditional is now 'demisexual'.

    Reminds me of five spice.

    If there is one group we could do with less it's sociologists and their fetish for renaming things and making up new labels!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    I know people say that da kidz are saying this stuff because it’s fashionable. But I cannot imagine being anything other than happy at being a woman. I love being a woman. I can’t imagine any fashion making me say anything else. So there must be something to these people saying they don’t feel like they are the gender they are born with, right?

    He is the gender he is born with. Some of the time.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    Got banned from a website I like for a week for commenting saying this nonsense I added I was gay man as insurance but no still banned

    millennials Are the worst
    Welcome back


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Wibbs wrote: »
    I'd reckon SM, he thinks, and I use the term loosely, like an empty vessel fame hungry performer type, sucking in anything in the zeitgeist that makes him feel relevant and since trans stuff is of the moment, bingo, he's latched onto it. I don't know of the guy from Adam, but I'd not be shocked to find out he's also said he's mentally ill(a "fashionable" condition of course) or on the spectrum or whatever you're having yourself.

    Oh my days :D

    Whoever had trans, gay, mental illness, alcoholic & self destruct on their celebrity bingo card, raise your hand!

    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5562009/amp/Sam-Smith-reveals-mental-health-battle-spurred-stay-sober-self-destructive-period.html
    Sam Smith reveals recent mental health battle has spurred him to stay sober after self-destructive period


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,921 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Wibbs wrote: »
    What a load of steaming turd bollocks. The vast majority of the stuff some of the right on "millennials" are spouting about came from the "boomers". Social justice, feminism, contraception choices, Gay rights, abortion, divorce, antiwar, Race rights, the environment? All subjects first tackled by boomers and it was the same "boomers" who got that stuff into legislation long before "millennials" were even born. Ireland? She came late to the party on many such things, but even there it was Generation X that got most of that stuff across the line and it was them who bid adieu to the Church here. About the only thing millennials helped get across the line in Ireland was the abortion referendum and even there with a large chunk of Generation X help. The very IT you're using to type that post is overwhelmingly of boomer/generation X's making.

    People try to put us d-dooooowwwwn. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Wibbs wrote: »
    What a load of steaming turd bollocks. The vast majority of the stuff some of the right on "millennials" are spouting about came from the "boomers". Social justice, feminism, contraception choices, Gay rights, abortion, divorce, antiwar, Race rights, the environment? All subjects first tackled by boomers and it was the same "boomers" who got that stuff into legislation long before "millennials" were even born. Ireland? She came late to the party on many such things, but even there it was Generation X that got most of that stuff across the line and it was them who bid adieu to the Church here. About the only thing millennials helped get across the line in Ireland was the abortion referendum and even there with a large chunk of Generation X help. The very IT you're using to type that post is overwhelmingly of boomer/generation X's making.

    The whole generation thing is a load of steaming turd bollocks though. Like you can even start to segment people just on the basis of age...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    The Islamic caliphate, Russia and China will soon have the whip hand over the decedent west.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,174 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Oh my days :D

    Whoever had trans, gay, mental illness, alcoholic & self destruct on their celebrity bingo card, raise your hand!

    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5562009/amp/Sam-Smith-reveals-mental-health-battle-spurred-stay-sober-self-destructive-period.html

    boom-i-win.jpg

    And I genuinely have no clue who this eejit is. Normally I would hate to admit I'm not down with the kidz, but I think in this case that's a blessing.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,172 ✭✭✭cannotlogin


    I won't pretend to understand non-binary or transgender.

    I can't because I have never experienced this myself. I'm female and have always been female. Was very much a tomboy (for want of a better word) until college, but never ever considered there was a possibilty of not being a girl/women.

    While I am sceptical, I do wonder if 50 years ago, people reacted the same what when someone said they were gay. It wasn't understood back in the day and people were dismissive of anything that wasn't hetrosexual.

    That said, I still don't get it, despite trying to.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    What is so wrong about giving people the chance to express their feelings, no matter how different or hard to comprehend that they may be?

    The same reason I don't treat my daughter like a unicorn despite the fact that sometimes she wants to be one.

    Or the same reason we don't encourage anorexics to lose weight despite the fact that they "feel fat".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,142 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    He says he thinks like a woman. I’m a woman and I haven’t a notion how other women think.

    He’s saying it like all us women think in a certain way and for that, it’s Sam Smith who is being disrespectful.

    Exactly.

    What he's doing is really just ultimate mansplaining.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    He’s one of these gob****es who would literally do or say anything to extend what little time in the spotlight he has

    He's won numerous awards, including an Oscar.

    He's just completed a sold-out world tour with his second album.

    Has had 2 consecutive No.1's in the UK chart in recent months alone.

    I would say he has many years left in the spotlight regardless of how he identifies.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    xzanti wrote:
    He's won numerous awards, including an Oscar.

    Better hand back all the "best male" awards though


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    xzanti wrote:
    He's won numerous awards, including an Oscar.

    xzanti wrote:
    He's just completed a sold-out world tour with his second album.

    xzanti wrote:
    I would say he has many years left in the spotlight regardless of how he identifies.

    That's a lot of "he's"

    Bigot


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    That's a lot of "he's"

    Bigot

    s/he can identify as a koala bear for all I care. That bitch can sing!!! :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,248 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    Maybe he was told by a career guidance teacher at school," you can be anything you want if you put your mind to it".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭orourkeda1977


    So apparently Sam Smith has stated that he doesn't think he is a man or a woman.

    https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2019/0319/1037219-sam-smith-im-not-male-or-female/

    It's crazy to see the usual media outlets lap this up but at the same time referring to him as 'him'.

    Its a strange world we live in these days. In what other aspect of life can we just decide to abandon logic, biology and reason and just declare something to be true despite all evidence and fact proving the opposite?

    Who is this c*nt?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    xzanti wrote: »
    He's won numerous awards, including an Oscar.

    He's just completed a sold-out world tour with his second album.

    Has had 2 consecutive No.1's in the UK chart in recent months alone.

    I would say he has many years left in the spotlight regardless of how he identifies.

    Yeah remember during his oscars speech when he said he was the first openly gay man to win an Oscar? That was also nonsense. He just wants to be special. Bless


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Exactly.

    What he's doing is really just ultimate mansplaining.

    Explain manspaining to me like you would to a ten year old.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,580 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    xzanti wrote: »
    s/he can identify as a koala bear for all I care. That bitch can sing!!! :D

    To be honest, if Sam Smith were around twenty or thirty years ago he would be an also ran in the music industry.
    Sadly we live in a time when his middle of the road, bland uninspired "poor me" flavoured moan pop is the new normal.
    Many said years ago that the move to online distribution of music could have a negative effect on industry, in reality its bloated decapitated corpse is being flogged to an ever decreasingly interested public,and in amongst that vista Sam Smith is one of the industry's shining lights.

    Glazers Out!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,726 ✭✭✭Feisar


    In my day we'd have done something about this kinda carry on, the world I grewd up in is gone.

    The past is a different country, they do things differently here.

    First they came for the socialists...



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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    nullzero wrote: »
    To be honest, if Sam Smith were around twenty or thirty years ago he would be an also ran in the music industry.
    .

    What?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Explain manspaining to me like you would to a ten year old.

    It's explaining something if you have a willy


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭dougm1970


    does he not look down when hes taking a piss ?....might help him figure it out


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,580 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    xzanti wrote: »
    What?

    Sam Smith is, at best, moderately talented.

    Glazers Out!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 533 ✭✭✭poolboy


    Unless what they really are is non-binary or trans....

    There is no such thing as "really non binary" he really was born with balls or he really wasn't.


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