Black ban this!

In a bid to help you get through the week without offending anyone’s sensitivities, no easy task I know, allow me to bring you up to speed on your use of pronouns as promoted by posters that have appeared around the University of Queensland campus heralding the arrival of the neopronoun.

Forget he/him, she/her and they/them and, enter the neopronouns. These, students are told, are a new category of pronoun such as “ze, hir, hirs, xe, xem and xyr”.

“Neopronouns,” they are told, “can be used by anyone.

“They don’t hold a specific meaning and are a way for someone to best represent themselves like they would through clothing or their name.”

Obviously, if someone introduces themselves to you as an “xe” or a “hirs”, there is always the chance that simple-minded souls such as us might presume that they are suffering from a speech impediment or have hosed down a couple of coldies before leaving home.

This confusion is understandable, but rather than muttering something about having left the iron on and hurrying away, the correct response is to listen carefully.

Did they say they were a “ze” or an “xe” or an “xem’” or an “xyr”?

If you make a mistake, the correct response is to “give a brief but genuine apology, then correct yourself and move on. If someone makes a mistake with other people’s pronouns, politely and without shaming, correct them”.

I’m tempted to say that in simpler times before victimhood and self-obsession took hold, things were more black and white, but that could cause offence and I wouldn’t want that.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/mike-oconnor/mike-oconnor-why-im-seeing-red-at-colourcoded-correctness-and-neopronouns-at-university-of-qld/news-story/6a6883f5451f4e8feeb89ce889e2a42b

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