Genderization

Remember when life was simple?

When boys were boys, girls were girls, and the only pronouns we had to worry about were "he," "she," and the occasional "it" for that houseplant you kept forgetting to water?

Those days are as gone as my high school hairline.

Welcome to the new world of gender expression, where the spectrum has more colors than a tie-dye shirt at a Grateful Dead concert.

God, I love tie-dye.

It's a world where your dating app profile might need a dropdown menu just to list all the gender options.

Now, don't get me wrong.

I'm all for people expressing themselves and living their truth. But as someone who still occasionally forgets which side of the car the gas tank is on, this new landscape can be a bit… challenging.

And I mean that.

Let's start with pronouns.

We've got "they/them," "ze/zir," "xe/xem," and more.

It's like someone spilled alphabet soup and decided to make a language out of it.

I'm half expecting to hear someone introduce themselves as "Hi, I'm Alex, and my pronouns ar…