Jul 172013
Hello, and welcome to Olive Garden. My name is Snowflake, and I’ll be your genderqueer postgrad waitron this evening. I’ll tell you our specials in a moment, but first, let me tell you that my preferred gender pronoun for tonight is
This is in reference to this NPR piece:
Young People Push Back Against Gender Categories
… which describes trendy-types getting snippy about gender based pronouns like “him” or “her” and instead wanting the rest of society to start using made-up pronouns like “zee, zim and zer.”
Whatever happened to “Hey, you?” Or “Hey, dumbass?” Or even “Hey you, dumbass?”