Gay Comic Matt Mathews Goes on Anti-Pronoun Rant: “We Don’t Do All That S**t.” (BTW, “We” Is a Pronoun)

The singular “they” has claimed another victim: comedian Matt Mathews. The comedian, who is currently on his Not What I Ordered World Tour, took umbrage with Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss who briefly used the pronoun “them” in a generic sense to refer to his partner, Rob, on the most recent episode of her podcast Speak On It, released on Sunday. “About you and your boo, when did you meet them?” Burruss asked. “Them! I only got one,” Mathews responded. “Well, child, you know, these days, I gotta know the pronouns before I start talking,” Burruss responded. - YouTube www.youtube.com “We ain’t got no damn pronouns,” Mathews said, before launching into a stream of bizarre invective. “I got a tallywacker, that’s a he. We don’t do all that shit. I ain’t doing all that they/them… LG… that shit… fuck all that. LGQILMNOPWWF… shut the fuck up. You gay, you straight, you white, you Black. You’re a boy, you’re a girl. You got a coochie, you’re a girl.” He continued, “Damn, I’m finna piss people off with that.” Burruss then returned to the original line of questioning asking about Mathews’ partner, but accidentally used the term “them” once again. “Him!” Mathews responds. “It ain’t no them, it’s only one of ’em,” Mathews said, perhaps not realizing the irony that he himself was deploying a contracted version of a singular plural pronoun. “I got one. Him. When did you meet them? Them is plural.” Though Mathews’ episode with Burruss was released on Sunday, a clip featuring the pronouns exchange was posted on social media on Wednesday and subsequently went viral. The clip was viewed over 2.7 million times on X and garnered backlash regarding Mathews’ willingness to throw some members of the LGBTQ+ community under the bus. “I hate when queer people act like this it gives ‘pick me straights I’m a good gay’ lmaooo,” one person wrote underneath the viral clip. “Trying to look