
This is a t-shirt design with a funny pun on the Nintendo wii used as a marketing tool towards Christian youth stopped me in my tracks today. I was in the “worlds largest truck stop” in Iowa just over the Illinois boarder. I cannot say that the t-shirt offended me but I was indeed very interested. I took a moment to imagine the individuals who would both buy and wear these shirts. To make a generalization most Christian youth who would enjoy video game puns do not question gender on a daily bases. Granted now that I say this I am reminded of my video game nerd grade school friend. He was a devout Christian and one of the only friends from my youth who did not detest me after I came out in High School (he actually liked having a lesbian friend.) He and I have also had conversations recently about my gender identity (granted only over facebook but he now lives and is married in Tennessee.) So this individual wearing the T-shirt with “hii” plastered on it is not as much of an issue as others. Perhaps it is not an issue at all, but instead I am too caught up having recently experimented with my own pronoun usage before settling on ze.
I guess my big wonder is if this t-shirt will help or harm the gender neutral pronoun movement.
Also if you were wondering all weekend I was referred to by ze and it felt really right. New people that I met will never have the she attached to me and that makes it easier for them to use ze. I am happy with this fact.
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