Jeffree Star Defends Himself After Slamming Pronoun Culture
Jeffree Star doubled down on his controversial comments about nonbinary people and the use of they/them pronouns, writing on Twitter, "I said what I said."The YouTuber and makeup mogul, 37, made the inflammatory remarks on Tennessee Titans player Taylor Lewan's podcast, Bussin With The Boys.
Star called people who use they/them pronouns "stupid" and declared that "conservatives like me because I'm just real."While Star did receive some support from conservative Twitter accounts for his podcast appearance, he also faced a wave of backlash to his comments, including one Twitter user who wrote in response to the video: "conservatives don't like you because 'you're real,' they like you because youre a f****** racist, transphobic piece of s*** that just feeds into their confirmation bias, especially as a queer man, i guess some people really don't change."Star stood by his opinion after the controversial comments, tweeting: "I said what I said.
It's not that complicated."Nonbinary is an umbrella term used by people "who experience their gender identity and/or gender expression as falling outside the binary gender categories of 'man' and 'woman,'" according to GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy group.During his conversation with Lewan, Star also claimed that the prevalence of nonbinary gender identities is due to people being "bored" while staying home during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic."I'm not into all the other bulls***: the 'they' and 'them' and all that extra s*** we added during the pandemic, 'cos everyone was so bored in their f****** houses," he said on the podcast. "That's why the conservatives like me because I'm just real.
