[clintonh8r]

How about “it”?

[Army Air Corps]

“It’s part of a drive to make the union intersectional.”

What in the Sam Scratch does that mean?

[cgbg]

It sounds better in the original German.

Your papers, citizen?

[metmom]

This issue isn’t about being politically correct or censoring anyone.

BS.

[Dr. Sivana]

I believe I would inform the esteemed gentleman tempting me to discard standard English usage to consult his own Unabridged Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the greatest work ever regarding language usage, certainly the most monumental.

[HotHunt]

"....“It is good to have gender-neutral pronouns for those who want them but it shouldn’t be compulsory....."

What's wrong with calling them "it"?

I'm just sayin'.....

[Personal Responsibility]

Freedom of Speech doesn’t exist on college campuses. I don’t know if it exists in England at all.

[donna]

Why would anyone spend a penny to attend Oxford now?

[RegulatorCountry]

“Ze” sounds an awful lot like the formal German “Sie.” That’s going to fluster the heck out of some very uptight little Germans at Oxford. They’ve been good soldiers for Progressivism over the past several decades, of course they’ve always been good soldiers, for better or worse. Don’t want to make them cry by being too formal, which is a correction or an insult to them.

How about Thing 1 and Thing 2? Women would have to be Thing 1, of course. Can’t be second class Things, that would be sexist.

[BlueLancer]

In reading the article, it doesn’t specifically say that this was directed by officials at Oxford University, but rather that it was “guidance offered in a leaflet by the students’ union advises against using traditional pronouns” ... in other words, wishful thinking by some trans-activists. The article is vague enough that I may be mistaken, but I think this isn’t something that Oxford has done.

[jsanders2001]

Zat is exactly what ze homonazis would use to describe other homos...

[WayneS]

I would start using “gfy” to the person who told me to start using “ze”.

[katana]

So objective case is "zim"? No wait, it must be "zer". Crap, maybe "zimmer" or "zerm"? At least we know plural would be "zem". Handy if you're a German speaker.

But more seriously, what an infantile pack of absolute fracking arseholes.

[I want the USA back]

Sorry, but you don’t tell me how to speak English, and you don’t get to give me punishment for not doing it your way. STFU.

[Luircin]

I’ve used that term before.

...in a fictional story where there’s a non-sexual entity and the word ‘it’ just didn’t convey the alien nature of it in the setting quite to the extent that I wanted.

Sad thing is that the fantastic story I wrote is somehow more sane than most leftists today.

[Haiku Guy]

I’m pretty sure the use of the same word, “ze”, for both males transitioning to female and females transitioning to male is not going to be acceptable.

[odawg]

I remember reading Anthem by Ayn Rand in high school. Rand wrote the novel in 1938. In her novel, personal pronouns had been removed from the language. The penalty for using one was death. I thought that was so far out.

[Suz in AZ]

Those wanting to be called he or she should scream discrimination and microaggression to the high heavens. Ze is equivalent to “it”.

[KarlInOhio]

Isn’t “ze” a microaggression against Spanish speakers who don’t have a native “z” sound (either “s” or “th” depending on the speaker’s native accent)?

[DoughtyOne]

But of course it’s not insulting to reference he or she as ze.

These folks have gone Thelma and Louise on their P.C. road trip.