Alex Trebek is not a sexist pig

They need to fire him. Throw him off the air forever. Maybe put him in an all-women's prison. Perform an orchiectomy on him.

"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek had the balloons to ask a female contestant if her job as an Army Master Sergeant was difficult because she's a woman. This drew immediate ire from the morally superior social media mavens, those people who scour the Internet looking for something, anything, to offended them. 

And find it they did.

Ironically, the question by Trebek didn't offend its recipient.

Trebek made the comment as he posed questions to the three contestants basic questions about their lives in order to introduce them to the audience. 

Lisa Beth Davis, a retired Army Master Sergeant was okay with the question by Alex: "That must be really tough for a woman because a master sergeant is giving orders most of the time. How was it for you?"

Davis responded that she was "pretty bossy" but as the eldest in the family, she knew "how to tell people what to do."

Fortunately for Trebek, nobody ran onstage to punch him in the face for asking such an insensitive question. How dare him ask a woman a question like that? It might offend her feminine sensitivities, cause her to have the vapors.

One social media recluse tweeted: 

"Um, Alex Trebek just said it must have been hard for a woman to be an Army Master Sergeant because she was a female....really?? Why not ask her what she accomplished in her position. Do better."

Another tweeted:

"Alex Trebek: 'Being a master sergeant must be hard for a woman because you have to give orders all the time.' That sexism isn't even subtle."

Personally, I don't usually watch "Jeopardy!" but I've seen it in the past. Trebek is an older man who comes from a generation where soldiers would have likely had difficulty taking orders from a woman. I seriously doubt that he meant it as a sexist statement or to embarrass her.

People are so quick to attack others, especially on the hatred cesspool known as Twitter, and when it's not face-to-face or when the recipient can defend him- or herself.

Lighten up, people. She's obviously a tough woman. She can take it, but she didn't apparently see it the way the PC Nazis did.

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