In the Disco era, the opening get-to-know-you line was “What’s your sign?” Before that, it was “What do you do for a living?” Or “where are you from?” Now in our gender-fluid era we are told to ask “What are your preferred pronouns?”
Not just “he-his-him” and “she-her-her-”, which must now be used according to the person’s preference rather than biology, but also the newly-coined pronouns invented to fit the new gender smorgasbord or the canons of gender neutrality: “ze-hir-hir”; “ze-zem-zir”; “ey-eir-em”; etc., etc.
What’s unsettling is that this suggestion comes from the Canadian police. Our friendly neighbor to the north has passed a law that potentially criminalizes addressing someone with the wrong pronouns, counting it as a hate crime.
From Lukas Mikelionis, Police Advise People To Ask Others’ ‘Preferred Pronouns’, Publish ‘Gender-Neutral’ Pronoun Chart | Heat Street:
A Canadian police department has advised people to ask others about their preferred personal pronouns, sharing a picture listing some of the existing pronouns accompanied with a sentence using them.
Halton Regional Police in Canada shared a guide on its Twitter page on Wednesday, captioned “Handy Guide to Pronouns” and saying “If you’re not sure what pronoun somebody uses, just ask. What are your preferred pronouns?”
The chart lists conventional pronouns such as “he-his-him” and “she-her-her-” and more recently resurfaced pronouns like “ze-hir-hir” and “ze-zem-zir” or even “ey-eir-em”.
It also gives an example for each set of pronouns. “Ze went to the store to buy hirself a hat. I saw him wearing hir hat today,” read one of the example sentences.
While Halton Regional Police doesn’t mention any possible fines for using wrong gender pronouns, Canada’s Senate has recently passed a controversial law known as C-16 that criminalizes using wrong gender pronouns and potentially constituting it as a hate crime, LifeSite News reported.
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Photo by David Bleasdale, “Grammar Wars #2,” Flickr, Creative Commons License
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