In his most recent “The Truth According to Ed Klein,” aspiring journalist and male chauvinist Ed Klein (again) misuses gender-neutral pronouns. I don’t dare guess whether this is an accidental mistake, that Klein actually doesn’t understand the difference between “ze” and “hir,” or that “ze’s stomach” is the grammatical equivalent of “she’s stomach,” or whether this is an intentional mistake, meant to mock the gender-neutral pronouns used by the Wesleyan community. Whatever the nature of the mistake, continued misuse in future “Truth” columns should be deemed unacceptable by the Wesleyan Argus.
This is in no way meant to be an exhaustive study of Ed Klein’s column—in fact, for numerous reasons, I wish The Argus wouldn’t print it at all—I highlight Klein’s misuse of gender-neutral pronouns as a specific example of the column’s inexcusably offensive and hateful content.
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