Non-Binary "Jeopardy" Contestant

Rowan overacts. It's a little creepy.

She's jolly old trannie, isn't she.

....

TRANNIES!

What was the previous name?

I can't stand it.

I'm still confused by all the labels and doing my best to work through them. Is Non-Binary like the "Pat" character on old SNL? We don't know if male/female?

Ditto everything R7 said.

I can’t fine adaquate words to describe how irritating this person is. But I’ll try:

Let’s start with the obliglatory “fun” dye job (blue in this case) which signals “Nobody puts Baby in a corner, I’m still kickin’ it” desperation. Then there is the irritating way she holds her buzzer high on her heart (I say “she” because Ward looks like a garden variety dyke to me, But I don’t care what “they” are). Follow that with her chirpy, too-loud voice booming out her answers with a smug, rabbity grin while she tilts her head to the side like a coquettish child prostitute.

I fucking hate “it.”

Part of me thinks, let them have their moment in the sun, it's not like they've ever been a "star" anywhere else. But otherwise they aggravate the shit out of me. I couldn't watch a whole episode with them in it, I agree with the poster above. I just hope they lose soon in the tournament.

It’s autistic

R10 is being gracious. Yes, let's allow this person their day; they can relive it forever with friends.

I think they're great. SHE is going to make it into the Tournament of Champions. Excellent player and BIG personality. Delightful.

On what day and year were these Gender and Pronoun terms created? What did people who have suddenly come into bloom, do before they had these references existed?

Within two mins I knew she was on the spectrum.

Let her alone!

R7 In an SNL skit where they figured a way to find Pat's gender, they asked what Pat would wear to a special event that evening. Pat replied "I'm going formal."

MARY!!!!

Why are so many lesbians autistic?

R15, "On the Spectrum" refers to cognitive or mental deficiency.

R15, Rowan has a problem or she wouldn't exhibit her Over-the-Top affect.

I find her endearing.

That’s because you’re a fool, r21.

I can live with that r22

One way to tell is the sort of pet this person has. If it’s a weird, hairless cat that she calls her “emotional support companion”, then she is truly non-binary. But - if she obsessively rescues pitbulls, then she’s only PRETENDING to be non-binary because the producers would never put a middle-aged butch lesbian on the show.

Producers must have said something. Tonight she's self-restrained.

Pat's all grown up!

I hope it’s tortured and eviscerated in the Tournament of Champions.

Insufferable. The hand wave at the beginning of Friday's episode was so irritating.

Not to “deadname” them, but I don’t remember them from their original performance and I’d like to watch the episode. Any idea how I can find their original episode without knowing Rowan’s previous name?

Is she also a Lutheran bishop per chance?

r29, Nicolle Neulist is the name she previously went by, and her episode was August 13, 2021.

Sorry (not really) to anyone offended, but I refuse to participate in this shit where we pretend previous names didn't exist. History and facts are real.

I never understood why someone 'non-binary' would change their name, especially to something that could still be considered female name.

BTW, here is the AMA on the Jeopardy! subreddit this person did last year. Somebody loves attention (if that wasn't already obvious)

Thanks for tracking down Rowan's original name and air date.

How did you manage to find that?

[quote]I think they're great.

Ditto R13

r34, first I looked at the Jeopardy! archive. They've gone back and changed her name (which is questionable to me as something that is supposed to be a record of something), but the episode is listed there under the new name. Then I used the Internet archive's wayback machine to look for an archived version of that episode's Jeopardy! archive webpage from last year.

I probably could have searched the episode date once I found it and found a news article and gotten it that way too, but this just seemed the most straight forward.

Very smart r36.

I'm 99% sure this person is on the spectrum

I think quite a few of the Jeopardy contestants are on the spectrum.

I'm confident Matt Amodio is.

Wait. Is she a lawyer?

Is she still in the running?

It’s Pat!

She's in the TOC. I don't expect her to lose in the first round. She's fast on the buzzer and aggressive with the Daily Doubles. She says she's coming for Matt Amodio. They look like twins!

It's R❤️wan with a heart...

Just one look at the pic @ r3. Even the blind can see it's a hideously ugly woman.

Super easy to find., R34. I just googled Rowan Ward original appearance and found lots about them. Here's an article.

Please make it stop!

Was “its” name choice inspired by . . .

You know I couldn't stand them they're first to appearances but I felt kind of bad when they lost I kind of wanted to see them go on a little further and then I was thinking maybe they get a wild card spot but I guess they've changed the way the tournament goes so they're done and now I'm back to hopefully I don't really care to ever see them again.

I have to say the TOC has been really interesting so far. Both Rowan and Ryan didn't do very well. I expected them to do better, but just goes to show the TOC is serious business, and you can see all the contestants are hungry to win, and now wasting anything. You could see Ryan was nervous. He didn't have that calm, laid-back energy he had when he was on his winning streak.

*not wasting

TOC = table of contents, surely?

She’s ugly.

[quote]I'm still confused by all the labels and doing my best to work through them. Is Non-Binary like the "Pat" character on old SNL? We don't know if male/female?

Well, I’m glaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad you asked! Non-binary can be anything you want it to be because it’s not bound by binaries. One more time LOUDER for the people in the back. 🗣NON-BINARY CAN BE ANYTHING YOU WANT IT TO BE!