Celebrity Cruises Capt. Kate McCue sinks sexist online troll with hilarious viral video

As the first American woman to helm a mega cruise ship, Kate McCue often comes up against online trolls.

But Celebrity Cruises' social-media savvy Capt. McCue has fired back in memorable style at one online critic who asked her, "How can you be a captain? Your only a woman."

McCue's withering TikTok video response from her ship, Celebrity Edge, has gone viral, brilliantly incorporating needed life knowledge with a stinging rebuke.

"Normally, when I’m scrolling through comments and I see something like this, I totally ignore it and move on with my life," said McCue, 42, who became the first woman in America to assume the rank of captain for a Celebrity Cruises megaship in 2015.

"But I think it’s about high time that I address this, because it’s 2020, and in this day and age, I’m shocked," she said gravely, before pausing for full drama. "… that someone still doesn’t know the difference between you’re and your."

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To the joy of the righteous and grammar nerds across the world, McCue continued her schooling.

"So just a quick reference: You’re — as in ‘you are’ — like, ‘you are sexist.’ Your is something possessive, it belongs to you, like ‘your ignorance,' " McCue said, before taking her seat with a satisfied air. "But don’t worry. I’m here for you. If you need any more clarification, you can find me here, in my captain’s chair."

The video has racked nearly 320K likes on TikTok since McCue posted Monday with the hashtag #yourewelcome.

Comments on Instagram have been superlative, and remarkably grammatically correct. "I love you queen of seas 👑," wrote one viewer.

This thorny debate has raged before, memorably it was a bone of contention between Ross and Rachel on "Friends."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Celebrity Cruises Capt. Kate McCue sinks sexist troll in viral video