A Procrustean Bed of Pronominal Correctness
Rather like smoking pot, chronicling the lunacies of gender theory is fun at first, and then becomes mind-numbing and miserable. But the news that Oxford University, which may be the world's most renowned seat of learning, has drunk the Kool-Aid of gender-neutral pronouns is hilarious.
Repeatedly "mispronouncing" a transgender person already constitutes harassment under Oxford's behavior code for transgender students.1 But outside the cloisters and manicured lawns of the university, the policy was little known. So when an Oxford University Students' Union leaflet recently instructed Oxonians to use gender-neutral pronouns such as "ze" rather than "he"...
