Are you a “xe,” “xym” or “xyr?” You don’t know? Well you’d better find out if you want to be politically correct. These are gender neutral pronouns pronounced “zee,” “zim” and “zur.” According to a story in the Knoxville News-Sentinel, the University of Tennessee Office for Diversity and Inclusion wants people to think beyond he and she pronouns.
Their suggestion hasn’t quite caught on, according to the report, and some state legislators are not impressed.
State Rep. Bill Dunn of Knoxville said he thought the suggestion was a joke. Dunn said, “And then I found out it was true, at which point I thought, ‘Are we really paying somebody to come up with this stuff?’”
All this grumpy old man can say is, “It’s the world you created. How are you going to live in it?”
PMO
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