Half listened to it while drifting off last night and properly listened this morning, great stuff. You read out one of my comments (I won’t say which but it wasn’t the Grimsby one 😘). Out of curiosity, why was your co-host so reluctant to answer the question about pronouns? Not that I blame him at all if he was genuinely worried about being cancelled for holding an unpopular point of view
Cheers Hunk and thanks for your input.
I can't speak for him in full but we've had conversations previously about how the angle of speaking publicly when you're a host or keynote etc. can lead to becoming more cautious in what is said. In part due to possibly getting something wrong and/or inadvertently offending someone.
In this case I would say it was partially down to it being quite a complex topic where people are still understanding different/new terminology. It would be quite easy to get something wrong unintentionally via misinterpretation. He's also appearing in some live performances soon so I think he just "played safe".
We are all constantly evolving within some new language and in time as Seth mentions, it's likely all of those terms (and more) will become part of general everyday language.
I think it was a great call to combine this topic of "gender pronouns" with an author. Although sexuality/sexual preference is a totally different topic, there are links and crossovers so it made great sense to also have an author who had ghost written a book with someone and about people who have been marginalised in society; especially in more slowly accepting/adapting sports such as football