The death rattle of Western civilization

These things always start out at the margins, showing up in stories buried on newspapers' inner pages.  At first, it's easy to wager that it's likely to blow over.  But some don't.  There were the spring 1965 sit-ins and teach-ins that sprang up pretty much instantly upon introduction of US ground troops to South Vietnam, or the founding a year later of the National Organization for Women, or the first Earth Day in the spring of 1970.

So the notion of "genderqueering" might strike one as so unlikely to gain a foothold that the temptation is to read the first paragraph of a story about it and move on.  But my sense is that these people are going to be so insistent about these goofy new pronouns (get ready for "ze," "sie," "e," "ou" and "ve") that we'll all be intimidated into accepting them within a year and "diversity circles" at campus nestled in the heartland, far away from the coasts where these things generally originate, will be held to get "the greater community" acclimated to the new mandatory perspective.

Witness the confusion of even those inclined to be sympathetic toward such a movement.  But, good sports that they are, they are determined to get the hang of it:

As neologisms like “ze” have moved beyond conversation and into students’ academic papers, some professors have expressed annoyance and uncertainty about how to respond, said Lucy Ferriss, writer-in-residence at Trinity College in Connecticut and a frequent contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s language blog, Lingua Franca. .

“There is an initial discomfort. I think it’s probably hypocritical to pretend there isn’t, to say, ‘Ok, that’s what they want to do’ and leave it at that,” Ferriss said. “The people I know who teach will say ‘This is weird and it’s cumbersome and it’s not going to last because it’s not organic.’”

At the same time, Ferris thinks it’s a mistake for scholars and grammarians to dismiss the trend without considering whether English and society might be served by less-rigid ideas about gender.

Less rigid ideas about gender.  God damn it, all you have to do is pull somebody's pants down to determine his or her gender.  I'm sorry if you resent the particular kind of genitalia your Creator gave you, but it has determined the hormonal balance coursing through your bloodstream, the pitch of your voice, and the placement of your body hair.  Not to mention whether you tend to be more aggressive and analytical, or more inclined toward nurturing.  This genital-resentment thing is your problem.

I'll say it again.  The Freedom-Hating overlords are perfectly willing to encourage this kind of infantile narcissism because if you have the masses making big deals over utterly trivial and embarrassingly detached-from-reality preoccupations, it's much easier to destroy that which is truly important, namely the actual freedom and dignity of the individual.

When the first pop star comes out as "genderqueered," we will know this has gone "mainstream."  Whee!  You are whatever you say you are!  And the leviathan state is there to shut up anyone who tries to point out that you're full of dog vomit.