JoJo Siwa responds to backlash against her comments on the word “lesbian”
JoJo Siwa clarified her comments over the word “lesbian”, by which she compared “lesbian” to “moist,” after receiving backlash from Twitter and TikTok users.
In a video response to TikTok user @that_akward_mango, who claimed that Siwa called “lesbian” a dirty word, Siwa responded, “I never said that lesbian was a dirty word and I never, ever would say that it’s a dirty word because it is not.
It is not a bad word, it is not a slur, and it is especially not a word that I am ashamed of saying or ashamed of identifying as by any means.” The 19-year-old Dance Moms star added that she simply didn’t like “the sound” of the word “lesbian.” “I don’t hate the word lesbian, I just – whenever somebody talks to me about my sexuality, I just say that I’m gay.
It’s not the word that flows off the tongue for me if that makes sense.” In the interview with Yahoo Life last week, Siwa talked about her attitude of being called a “lesbian.” “I don’t like the word itself.
