That’s an interesting leap from one extreme to another. If you’re being serious, you missed the point - “Very bright young lady” is an extremely patronizing pat on the head.
What really grates on me is how he’ll always comment that some kind of pop culture is “before your time” when reading the category names or speaking to the contestants. Yes Alex, because no one under 40 (who is a Jeopardy! contestant!) has ever heard music from the 1960s or seen a movie made before they were born. :rolleyes:
The Onion’s American Voices has some particularly funny replies to the Trebek retirement statement.
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Extremely? I don’t see why. Seems like a compliment to me. Which of those four words do you object to? Is “very bright young man” also patronizing?
Yes.
“Whoever replaces him is going to have some pretty smug shoes to fill.”
That’s what Tic Tac Dough had in Wink Martindale from 1978-85, and that is why Wink’s run on TTD is one of the best game shows I’ve ever seen-- Wink didn’t upstage the contestants or make it all about him; he just kept the show moving.
“Very bright young lady” sounds entirely complimentary to me, and I’m pretty sure that is Trebek’s intent.
I can’t wait until this widespread hobby of taking offense tapers off in society.
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This long predates #metoo. Go to any past Jeopardy thread and you’ll see the “Alex is a smug bastard” contingent.
Since when did patronizing comments NOT sound like a compliment. It’s kind of a necessary part of patronization.
And I can’t wait until people stop repeating this maxim and learn to listen to other people’s concerns without dismissing them.
“Very bright young lady” is what you say about a little kid.
And, FYI, I barely watch Jeopardy, and never noticed anything about Trebek when I do, since I don’t pay much attention to him. I’m too busy playing along. I just care if I got it right or not.
But I find it hard to understand how anyone doesn’t know what “bright young lady/gentlemen” means.
Came here to post the very same thing. Too funny.
We are seeing her, we know she’s a lady. She’s on Jeopardy of course she’s bright. Why doesn’t say that equally about men?
It’s sexist. What he means is ‘for a lady she’s pretty bright’.
Just because being offended is a national pastime doesn’t mean we can excuse every slight.
I’m pretty sure that when it’s the college tournament or the teen tournament, Alex makes some comment about the bright young people competing. Is that offensive? Because to me, it sounds like he wants to call attention to them in a positive way.
I’d suggest the best possible candidate is probably someone you’ve never, or barely, heard of, just as Trebek himself was a C-level celebrity when he got “Jeopardy!” What made him ready for it is he’d hosted a bunch of other game shows.
He calls all sorts of contestants bright. He calls younger guys “bright young” men.
And is it offensive if he calls a man ‘sir’? By your logic it is (we are seeing him, we know he’s a man).
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When you find a 75 year old man calling a 20 something woman “a bright young lady” insulting, you are definitely working hard to be offended.
In my case you are definitely wrong about that.
I doubt it.
I think being offended comes quite easy to some.
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