CV NEWS FEED // An online application for the role of “Battleground Political Associate” in the Harris-Walz campaign came under scrutiny this week for asking applicants to select from a range of “neopronouns” such as “faer/faer” and “hu/hu.”
The field for pronouns is the third listed from the top, underneath the fields for the applicant’s resume and name.
Applicants have the option to select one of nine pronoun pairs: “He/him,” “She/her,” “They/them,” “Xe/xem,” “Ze/hir,” “Ey/em,” “Hir/hir,” “Fae/faer,” and “hu/hu.”
Applicants are able to select more than one – or all nine – of these options.
Only the first three pronoun pairs are English words. “They” and “them” are almost universally understood by most English speakers to be plural pronouns.
The application also gives job seekers the option to type their own “custom pronouns” or to “use name only.”
“Xe,” “hir,” “fae,” and “hu” are examples of what many LGBTQ activists refer to as “neopronouns.”
The far-left pro-LGBTQ group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) states on its website: “As one’s pronouns are ultimately a reflection of their personal identity, the number and types of (neo)pronouns a person may use is limitless.”
“Fae” and “faer” derive from mythology, in particular fairies (also called “fae” or “fae folk”), according to websites supportive of using these pronouns.
The pro-LGBTQ site “Pronoun Wiki” notes that a Tumblr blogger coined “fae” pronouns just over a decade ago.
“I am described as such by people who don’t know me — fae and feline and not-exactly-human,” the blogger wrote at the time. “My choice of fae as a pronoun reflects this.”
The Daily Wire’s Spencer Lindquist wrote that “fae” pronouns have also been used by some adherents to Wicca, a modern pagan movement.
Harris’ campaign also asks applicants for the “Battleground Political Associate” position “How would you contribute to building a diverse culture?”
The full-time on-site position is based in Wilmington, Delaware, the city where Harris’ campaign is headquartered. President Joe Biden’s now-suspended reelection campaign was also based in Wilmington, where Biden has a residence.
Harris has been known as a longtime supporter of the use of “preferred pronouns.”
In 2019, during her failed run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, then-Sen. Harris declared during a CNN town hall that her pronouns “are she, her, and hers.”
“Mine too,” host Chris Cuomo quipped.
Online job applications to join the campaign of Harris’ Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, do not provide any fields for applicants to specify their pronouns.
