Word: ze
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reached their target just south of Baghdad. By the time Iraqi anti-aircraft defenses opened up, it was too late. In fewer than 90 seconds, the Israeli planes had destroyed the reactor and turned safely for home. "We had a huge responsibility towards our country and our people," says Ze'ev Raz, the pilot who led the raid on Iraq's nuclear reactor at Osirak. "We didn't know if we'd have a second chance...
...issue is particularly salient for the transgender community on campus, which has been publicly ridiculed for using gender-neutral pronouns like ze and hir and bringing speakers to campus who wax poetic about boydykes, genderqueers, and butch fairies. Pronouns and terminology that express personal identity are not just about semantics. Words are more than words. Ze and hir are necessary pronouns for people who may not identify in a binary structure of male and female, and calling these pronouns ridiculous fundamentally means that you think living outside of that binary is equally ridiculous. It’s not just...
...respect each individual’s right to define gender and sexuality. It doesn’t hurt anyone, and it’s literally a matter of life and death for some students. The semantic debate is important, but it insults our intelligence when words like ze and hir are paraded around by people whose sole intent is to ridicule or belittle them to distract us from real problems of discrimination and physical violence that happen each and every day. It might be a bit much for my grandmother, but we’ve got a real opportunity...
...her” no longer suffice, a person can only shy warily away from the shudder-inducing “it” and mumble inaudibly. Has political correctness finally exhausted the capacities of the English language? Wesleyan University has turned to a gender-neutral alternative: “ze.” “Students use it to refer to people who have requested it as their pronoun,” Zach Strassburger, a member of the Weseleyan Trans/Gender Group, wrote in an e-mail. “They are mostly but not entirely students who identify...
Cartoonist Judd Winick met his future wife Pam Ling on season three of The Real World. Now he's used her Chinese-American culture as the springboard for the story of a sarcastic 11-year-old who is the Te Xuan Ze, the protector of humanity from supernatural villains. It's a little derivative of Buffy the Vampire Slayer--O.K., a lot--but Juniper has its own clever twists; for instance, only she can see her monster enemies. Let it never be said nothing good came out of reality...