Viewers of The smartest person in the world were not set up yesterday with a quiz question about Sam Bettens. That nobody improved candidate Catherine Van Eylen when she kept talking about ‘she’ instead of ‘he’ was not appreciated. The fact that Sarah, Bettens’ name was mentioned again when he was still a woman, is seen by many as disrespectful.
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Different viewers of it The smartest person in the world responded disappointed to a particular passage from the episode yesterday. VRT sports anchor Catherine Van Eylen was presented with the video in which Sam Bettens tells Linde Merckpoel that he wants to go through life as a transman. Van Eylen recognized Bettens, knew among other things that he is a singer and trans man and that his name was once Sarah.
But that in her search for answers she kept talking about ‘she’ instead of ‘he’ and that no one corrected her, that went wrong with viewers. It was also difficult with the fact that Bettens’ former wife name – his deadname – was used as an answer.
Yesterday Sam Bettens was a question in DSMTW. The question was ushered in with an excerpt from Linde. Clean.
Then there are 3 answers. One of them is Sam’s deadname. Less clean. Everyone knows this is disrespectful to the person.
– Poop chat ?? (@poepekletsbe) November 25, 2020
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