{"id":2845,"date":"2013-07-28T17:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T00:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2013-07-28T17:58:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T00:58:38","slug":"king-queen-whats-a-gender-neutral-monarch-to-call-zir-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/07\/28\/king-queen-whats-a-gender-neutral-monarch-to-call-zir-self\/","title":{"rendered":"King? Queen? What&#8217;s a Gender-Neutral Monarch to Call Zir Self?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Aside form the likes of NARAL, the birth of a baby is usually the time for celebration, or at least congratulations.\u00a0 While most people greeted the news of the safe birth of the royal baby, Prince George, in good cheer as any decent human being would, there are those who used the birth as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijreview.com\/2013\/07\/67813-13-people-who-want-the-royal-baby-to-choose-its-gender-not-the-patriarchy\/\" target=\"_blank\">excuse<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/moonbattery.com\/?p=33810\" target=\"_blank\">rail<\/a> against &#8220;cis-normative&#8221; oppression.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Birth of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23RoyalBaby&amp;src=hash\">#RoyalBaby<\/a> exposes the media&#39;s love of patriarchy and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23GenderConformity&amp;src=hash\">#GenderConformity<\/a>. I&#39;m hoping Wills &amp; Kate have a healthy trans baby.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher J. Hogan (@Koko_Hogan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Koko_Hogan\/statuses\/359405134154964996\">July 22, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In particular, the use of gender-neutral pronouns of &#8220;ze&#8221; and &#8220;zir&#8221; rather than &#8220;he&#8221; and &#8220;his&#8221; displays their obsessive need to abolish the notion of gender (unless such expression in contra-normative, of course).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p>The royal baby is not a boy, because ze is not yet old enough to choose zir own gender.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Little Dove. (@TommyTopHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TommyTopHat\/statuses\/359403507150888960\">July 22, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p>STOP CALLING THE <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ROYALBABY&amp;src=hash\">#ROYALBABY<\/a> A BOY. ZIR BIOLOGICAL SEX IS NOT RELEVANT. This is how the patriarchy indoctrinated its future leader.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sophy QX (@SophyQX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SophyQX\/statuses\/359432165701849089\">July 22, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The use of gender neutral pronouns is already being pushed in <a title=\"The Abolition of Gender in Sweden\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/12\/18\/the-abolition-of-gender-in-sweden\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sweden<\/a>, and the main restraint on its use here seems to be deciding which spiffy new set of <a href=\"http:\/\/genderneutralpronoun.wordpress.com\/tag\/ze-and-zir\/\" target=\"_blank\">gender-neutral pronouns<\/a> to use:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2846\" title=\"gender_neutral_pronouns\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/gender_neutral_pronouns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/gender_neutral_pronouns.jpg 512w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/gender_neutral_pronouns-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jO_GpANhkXw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Aside form the likes of NARAL, the birth of a baby is usually the time for celebration, or at least congratulations.\u00a0 While most people greeted the news of the safe birth of the royal baby, Prince George, in good cheer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/07\/28\/king-queen-whats-a-gender-neutral-monarch-to-call-zir-self\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[9,55,46,42,48],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-europe","tag-gender","tag-kyriarchy","tag-mood-music","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2864,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}