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As trans madness has infested public schools all over the country, a focus of particular controversy and disgust has been the graphic novel Gender Queer, which despite containing (or more likely, because it contains) explicit depictions of oral sex and masturbation, has been placed in public school libraries from sea to LGBTQIA sea. But there is a great deal of pushback on this book in particular, and so the media and cultural elites apparently determined that their gender confusion agenda needed a bit of shoring up.
Time, which once published actual news, was happy to help on Wednesday with a glowing profile of Gender Queer author Maia Kobabe, which it advertised on Twitter in Brave New English: “TIME spoke to ‘Gender Queer’ author and illustrator Maia Kobabe on about eir work, the efforts to restrict access to eir writing, and what ey make of the current cultural moment.” Eir? Ey? Eh?
Time is supposed to be an English-language publication, but like the terms “man” and “woman,” that doesn’t mean what it used to. Apparently, the unlucky few who actually follow Time on Twitter are just supposed to know what “eir” and “ey” mean, and the once-respected magazine’s readiness to use these nonce words is just another signpost pointing the way to our cultural disintegration. Who needs the AP Stylebook or the Chicago Manual of Style, to say nothing of Strunk and White, when we’re just making up words now and using them as if they were common and known to everyone? Is Time going to give us an article next week on the joys of dalg, glidj, and blimlimlim? Oh yes indeed, I admit it: I lifted those words from Curious George Learns the Alphabet. Apparently, Time, which once featured the portentous and weighty prose of the towering anti-Communist Whittaker Chambers, is now publishing writing that is on the level of a monkey learning his ABC’s.
This madness infuses Time’s hagiographical profile of Kobabe as well. “In the 2019 illustrated graphic memoir, Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, explores eir process of coming out as nonbinary and asexual.” All right. So Kobabe “uses e/em/eir pronouns,” but apparently she and Time both believe that it is incumbent upon us to enter into her world of fantasy and delusion and to play pretend with her. As it happens, neither Kobabe nor Time made up these arbitrary and meaningless pronouns; they’re apparently known as the Spivak pronouns, after a mathematician named Michael Spivak who used them in a book he (yes) wrote. Spivak himself, however, denied having originated them, and no one seems sure exactly who did. The only thing that matters as far as Kobabe and Time are concerned is that we all play along and use them.
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fadeye@yahoo.com says
Every time I go to whithouse.gov, I click on the pronouns button and tell them mine are, ‘yourself’, ‘fuck’ and ‘go’…but in reverse order!!
Golem2 says
What nonsense
somehistory says
so happy that this is all gobbledygook to me. It boggles the sane mind to know such has made it to a publishing house and not been told “don’t send any more unsolicited garbage.” and ”we hope your story finds a nice bonfire to fuel.”
I would write that the world has gone to the dogs, but those animals are way more intelligent than this idiot “author” and the ones at Time.
gravenimage says
Eir? Ey? Eh? Time Publishes Glowing Profile of ‘Gender Queer’ Author, Complete With Nonsense Pronouns
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I guess now the person Time is interviewing dictates what pronouns the magazine can use…