Jimmy Fallon is in hot water with some of his audience.
The “Tonight” show host angered his largely progressive viewership by referring to trans actor Hunter Schafer as “bud” during a Nov. 17 interview about the actor’s latest role in the newly released prequel to “The Hunger Games.”
Schafer explained to Fallon he previously dressed up as a character in the franchise when he was a child.
“For Halloween, I was obsessed with how the capitol people were in costume and made my own costume,” Schafer stated.
“Oh bud, it’s unbelievable!” Fallon replied.
“This is really cool, now you’re in ‘Hunger Games’ — as a capitol person!”
The comments quickly drew reaction from some of the show’s viewers, one of whom pointed out that the word is “unquestionably male-coded.”
Another complained that the transgender community is sick of being subjected to such “microaggressions.”
This is one of those rare instances where everyone complaining in the QTs are kinda right. On one hand, I have seen videos of Jimmy Fallon calling his guests “bud”, both men & women. On the other, this is an example of how not every trans person enjoys gender ambiguous hailnames. https://t.co/NawVmZOZpt
— ∞ (@htsvzn) November 19, 2023
However, not all the reaction was so critical.
Some fans leapt to the host’s defense, pointing out that he regularly refers to his guests as “bud,” regardless of their gender.
I’m not gonna qrt that bud jimmy Fallon tweet cuz im not a trans woman and thus am not going to insert Mt opinion and contribute to possible dog piling but I never thought of bud as a gendered term I thought it was just short for buddy which was a term of friendly endearment
— nyxelodeonXD (@nyxeIodeonXD) November 19, 2023
Calling hunter schafer “bud” is the least annoying thing jimmy fallon has ever done https://t.co/CdDlfgkBhY
— A Low IQ Moron (@lowiqmoron) November 21, 2023
People criticizing Jimmy Fallon bc he called Hunter Schafer bud are total morons. You can call anyone bud. Doesn’t have to be a woman or a man. This is so stupid that anyone would actually care about this with all the shit we have going on in this world this is what’s an issue?
— Ryan Anthony (@EUPH0RIC_RUSH) November 23, 2023
The controversy caps off a difficult few months for Fallon, who was recently forced to apologize following a Rolling Stone report about his creation of a toxic work environment.
“It’s embarrassing and I feel so bad. Sorry if I embarrassed you and your family and friends,” Fallon said during a Zoom meeting in September, according to Variety.
“I feel so bad I can’t even tell you,” he continued. “I want this show to be fun, it should be inclusive for everybody, it should be funny, it should be the best show, the best people.”
Fallon also called him an actor twice and not an actress.
Nobody caught that.
aaww geez, the world is being forced to go insane, by all this PC, grow up people.
Some people see a “man in a dress” as a man in a dress. It would be a homosexual thought if any real man thought that a “man dressed up like a woman” was an object of lust. Do you think it’s normal for a man to get up in the morning and put on his mother’s dress and go out into the public dressed like that? Is it normal for a man looking at a “man in a dress” to tell himself that the “man in a dress” is a woman? No. You have to deceive yourself into thinking that a “man in a dress” is really an authentic, biological woman. Anyone who uses pronouns that do not acknowledge the reality of one’s own perception is guilty of pandering to mentally ill people who live in a make-believe world. No one can compel you to live in their make-believe world. No one can compel you to believe that a man in a dress is a woman. Any ruling authority that promotes this mental dysphoria is illegitimate and their dictates should be ignored.
Who gives a shit. The guy is pretending to be a girl. I’m so tired of hearing the fake progressives apologizing for nothing.
Hollywood liberals are sick, deranged idiots
Oh my, the HORROR!