Say what? Time makes use of woke pronouns to explain controversial creator of Gender Queer
Time magazine published a glowing profile of a controversial LGBT author whose book, which features questionable illustrations of sexual activity, happens to be the No. 1 most banned book of 2021. The magazine’s tweeted description, however, is confusing social media users.
In describing the interview, the magazine used new, gender-neutral pronouns, calling the biologically female author by “eir” and “ey,” which operate the same as pronouns their and they.
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“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,” Time tweeted Wednesday night.
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 https://t.co/JLdmgu5lCL
— TIME (@TIME) September 1, 2022
Baffled by the usage of the new “pronouns,” practically unheard of outside of left-wing circles across social media, users reacted to the tweet.
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh asked, “Can you please try this tweet again but in English this time?” in response to the tweet.
“‘Eir’ and ‘ey.’ These people are such insufferable narcissists,” wrote conservative political commentator Allie Stuckey.
“Did a cockney chimney sweep write this tweet?” joked Washington Examiner columnist T. Becket Adams.
“Ok the pronoun thing has got to be a troll at this point right?” said podcaster and editor Stephen L. Miller.
Kobabe’s graphic novel features explicit illustrations of sexual activity that parents have found troubling. Across the country, the book has faced backlash for its presence in schools and libraries, as well as its being targeted to youth. However, organizations and activists claim the backlash is simply a result of anti-LGBT discrimination.
“’Gender Queer’ ends up at the center of this because it is a graphic novel, and because it is dealing with sexuality at the time when that’s become taboo,” Jonathan Friedman, the director of free expression and education at PEN America, said earlier this year. “There’s definitely an element of anti L.G.B.T.Q.+ backlash.”
Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents in recent weeks on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in Salt Lake City. Community leaders in Utah have said titles with characters and plot lines involving LGBT and minority students have been disproportionately targeted. Darrow said books like “Beyond Magenta,” “Gender Queer” and “Lawn Boy” show LGBT and minority teens that they have a place and are represented in their schools and communities. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Asked about criticism from “GOP lawmakers,” the author told Time that the book is actually “unbelievably tame.”
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“If you read my book, you will discover that it is unbelievably tame. It does include the topics you mentioned, it does touch on masturbation, sex toys, and sexual health,” Kobabe said.
