{"id":94061,"date":"2025-07-27T23:56:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94061"},"modified":"2025-07-27T23:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:59:47","slug":"gender-queries-ai-flubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/07\/27\/gender-queries-ai-flubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Queries & AI Flubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

French President Emmanuel Macron <\/strong>and his wife, Brigitte<\/strong>, filed a defamation lawsuit against conservative podcaster Candace Owens<\/strong>.  Candy claimed that Mrs. Macron was born male in her series Becoming Brigitte<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 which I thought was about the former Mrs. Stallone<\/strong>!  The Macrons said in their lawsuit that Owens has waged a \u201ccampaign of global humiliation\u201d.  I would believe that if I actually knew who Candace actually was.  Frankly, I couldn\u2019t pick her out of a police lineup \u2013 but here\u2019s to hoping.  I\u2019m calling Owens\u2019 allegations Bullshit<\/em>.  I\u2019m also calling the Macrons\u2019 lawsuit Bullshit<\/em> \u2013 only \u2018cause I hate that they gave Owens any publicity.<\/p>\n

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Many people are pissed off at Rahm Emanuel<\/strong>.  In a recent interview, Megyn Kelly <\/strong>asked, \u201cCan a man become a woman?\u201d  Rahm thought for a second.  \u201cCan a man become a woman?  Not…no.\u201d  When Megyn said, \u201cThank you.  Why don\u2019t more people in your party just say that?\u201d  Rahm said, \u201cBecause we\u2019re…I\u2019m now going to go into the Witness Protection Program<\/em>.\u201d  I\u2019m calling Bullshit<\/em> on the question and the answer.  While I know it\u2019s politically correct in our community to distill gender down to body parts, that\u2019s just window dressing to me.  And I support that.  But no matter the procedure, the chromosomal coding of sex remains unchanged.  So, strictly speaking, one cannot totally change genders.  Both Rahm and Megyn know better, so shame on them.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also calling Bullshit<\/em> on all forms of AI<\/em>.  Actually, I\u2019m embarrassed for the people who blindly believe it.  I can\u2019t tell you how many people have contacted me regarding bogus stories that were confirmed by various bots.  The most ridiculous was that C\u00e9line Dion <\/strong>and Josh Groban <\/strong>got up and did an impromptu performance at Connie Francis<\/strong>\u2019 funeral.  There\u2019s even a photo!  It\u2019s a nice story, but Bullshit<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s absolutely no Bullshit<\/em> in my friend Marga Gomez<\/strong>\u2019s performance of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe<\/em><\/strong>.  I\u2019m told she\u2019s superb \u2013 which comes as no surprise.  Gomez is one of the most talented performers I\u2019ve ever met.  And a helluva dame.  So who else would San Francisco\u2019s Aurora Theatre Company <\/em>turn to when they needed someone to take on all the daunting characters Jane Wagner <\/strong>originally wrote for wife Lily Tomlin<\/strong>?  You won\u2019t want to miss this show, which closes on August 10th<\/sup>.  Get your tickets at AuroraTheatre.org<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lily and Jane are two of the producers on the Chicago Shakespeare Theater<\/em>\u2019s world premiere production of Billie Jean<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 about Billie Jean King <\/strong>(not to be confused with the chick in that Michael Jackson <\/strong>song).  The company says that this new play by Lauren Gunderson <\/strong>is \u201cthe theatrical event of the summer\u201d, and who am I to call that Bullshit<\/em>?  It also closes on August 10th<\/sup>, so you better grab your tickets quickly at ChicagoShakes.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, filed a defamation lawsuit against conservative podcaster Candace Owens.  Candy claimed that Mrs. Macron was born male in her series Becoming Brigitte \u2013 which I thought was about the former Mrs. Stallone!  The Macrons said in their lawsuit that Owens has waged a \u201ccampaign of global humiliation\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94065,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94061\/revisions\/94065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}