The University of Minnesota has become the first American campus to recognize the rights of subjexuals, a class of oppressed persons who identify as first person pronouns.
The decision modifies the previous policy, under which students were only allowed to choose from a list of third person pronouns on the campus website: He/him/his, none, prefer not to specify, she/her/hers, they/them/theirs, or ze/zir/zirs. They could also specify their gender identity as one of the following: Agender, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, man, nonbinary, prefer not to specify, two spirit, woman, or other.
Subjexuals claim that all of these pronouns and categories are oppressive and objectifying because they are in the third person. “We are subjects, not objects” says I.M. Mee, president of Subjexual Hordes Inimical to Traditional Pronoun Usage (SHITPU). “Call me me, call me I, call us we—but don’t you dare call us he/him/his, she/her/hers, they/them/theirs, or ze/zir/zirs! We refuse to be objectified!”
At the SHITPU press conference, the following dialogue ensued between Mee and a reporter for the campus newspaper:
Reporter: “Uh, is it OK if I call you ‘you’?”
Mee: “No! Absolutely not! Please use ‘me’ or ‘I’ when you refer to me, just like I do.”
Reporter: “But if I say ‘I’ when I refer to yo…I mean, when I refer to me, uh….er…I mean, how will we be able to distinguish between us?”
Mee: “That’s the whole point. When you distinguish between us, you discriminate! You must recognize me as a self, not an other.”
Reporter: “But you just called me ‘you.’”
Mee (slapping reporter across the face): “Don’t call me you, you subjectophobic creep!”
Reporter: “But you did first!”
Mee (slapping reporter again): “I am the subjexual here, not you! I have chosen to identify as a first person pronoun! You are just another objectifying oppressor! As a member of an oppressed class, I have the right to demand that you refer to me and my fellow subjexuals in whatever way we choose! Your attempt to turn the tables here is sort of like white straight male privilege, only much worse. So stop using second and third person pronouns on me or I’ll report you to the campus hate police!”
Reporter: “But how am I going to write this story? If I write, ‘SHITPU spokessubject I. M. Mee insisted on being referred to in the first person, but I, meaning Mee, insisted on referring to, er, this reporter, in the second person,” that makes no sense, because it was Mee, not me, who insisted on using the second person. But how can I convey that if I refer to, uh, me, meaning Mee, as me? Do I understand me, Mee?”
Mee: “Now we’re talking!”
After the press conference, U.R. Hu of the Chinese Lesbian Alliance and Hu R. Yu of the Laotian Bisexual Brigade joined Mee on stage but couldn’t decide on the order of speakers until Mee finally declared: “Hu’s on first!”
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Ian, that “u” in Kuntz is not pronounced as in current English usage, but more like an “oe”, closer to Olde English (Saxon), German, Swedish. When I was a little boy we had a beautiful blond young teacher from England, whose surname was “Lund”. We were instructed to pronounce it in the original Saxon rendering of an “oe”. If pronounced otherwise, it would mean a male phallus in Urdu/Hindi/Punjabi & a host of Indo-Aryan languages. Needless to say, everyone complied & was too afraid to appear uncouth by even joking about it.
Yes, but for an English person to try to pronounce Kuntz properly is difficult and it still sounds rude. Thanks for the story, language can be fun.
In the 90s there was a German left back called Stefan Kuntz, the commentators couldn’t say his name so had to use his number instead.
Levity in the morning is a good thing. The bad thing is it’s not far from happening.
That is the funniest thing i have read in a longtime.
You can’t do that skit with football. The difference between violent culture and pastoral freedom.
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