The left’s obsession with pronouns was always destined to collapse under the weight of its absurdity. It created an environment where the concept of “misgendering” someone became a hate crime, even when it’s accidental or based on plain observation. Americans aren’t buying it anymore, and moments like Wednesday night’s CNN town hall make it painfully obvious why.
When Anderson Cooper introduced civil rights attorney Grace Thomas using basic observational skills, he got a lecture that perfectly demonstrated how far off the deep end this has gone.
“I want to introduce Grace Thomas,” Cooper began. “She's a local civil rights attorney. She's a Democrat. Grace?”
“It's they/them pronouns, actually. Thank you,” she chided.
“Oh,” Cooper said.
It was entirely reasonable for Cooper to refer to Thomas with feminine pronouns — because she is, obviously, a woman. Normal people instinctively understand that “they” and “them” are plural pronouns used for more than one person, and Thomas is just one person.
Even as a liberal and a member of the LGBT community, Cooper undoubtedly supports the left’s gender agenda, but he also knows what a woman looks like. A human female with a woman’s name, voice, and appearance doesn’t become a genderless “they/them” just because the activist class demands it.
But she couldn't let it go. On national television, she felt it was necessary to "correct" Cooper because, to her, it was too important to her self-worth to let slide.
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What happened next was pure comedy gold. After scolding Cooper over imaginary pronouns, Thomas actually asked why men — particularly white men — don't feel connected to Democratic Party messaging.
Anderson Cooper just misgendered a Civil Rights attorney.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) April 10, 2025 13
They are not serious.
Keep on putting the pronoun police on camera, we will win every election. pic.twitter.com/wB8Kb4mmKZ
The lack of self-awareness on display was nothing short of astonishing. At a time when Americans are grappling with real, tangible problems — rampant inflation, skyrocketing energy costs, a border in chaos — all thanks to four painful years of Joe Biden’s policies, Democratic activists want us to focus on policing language and enforcing absurd, made-up grammar rules that defy both logic and reality.
This is exactly why President Donald Trump’s commonsense approach continues to resonate with voters. His administration has made it a priority to restore basic sanity to public policy, including through an executive order that states what every rational person already knows: “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.” Groundbreaking stuff, apparently, but it shouldn’t be. It’s only revolutionary because the left has dragged the country so far off the rails that stating biological truth now comes across as bold leadership.
The good news is that a major course correction is currently underway.
The Trump White House isn't playing these games. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Wednesday that she straight-up ignores reporters who put pronouns in their email signatures.
"As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios," she told the New York Times. "Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story."
That's what actual leadership looks like.
The left’s pronoun obsession isn’t just irritating — it’s alienating voters in droves. Americans struggling to make ends meet in Biden’s broken economy aren’t interested in being scolded for committing so-called “pronoun violence.”
While families are focused on paying the bills and keeping food on the table, Democrats are obsessing over whether someone said “she” instead of “they.” And they wonder why their messaging isn’t connecting. What they fail to see is that even their own allies can’t keep up with these ridiculous demands. Sooner or later, it’s going to backfire in a big way, and that moment can’t come soon enough.
