Beauty salon Skin Bar offers its customers more than 40 different pronouns
An exclusive beauty salon often frequented by celebrities offers its customers a list of more than 40 different pronouns to choose from when booking an appointment.
The Skin Bar, which has salons in some of Sydney’s most exclusive suburbs and counts famous faces such as Abbie Chatfield and Jesinta Franklin among its fans, lists a whopping 43 pronouns on its website.
The drop-down menu contains ‘he/him’, ‘she/her’ and ‘they/them’ by default.
But even the most woke people will have their knowledge tested as they try to decipher which genders ‘kit’, ‘mer’, ‘ne’, ‘peh’, ‘shi’ and ‘thon’ apply to.
On closer inspection, many of the pronouns mentioned have their origins in science fiction.
Customers also have the option to select up to four pronouns in another bizarre twist.
Natalie Roser (left, with Aisha Jade) attends an event hosted by The Skin Bar in November last year
The Skin Bar, which has clinics across Sydney, offers customers a choice of 43 different pronouns when making a booking
‘Ae’ is apparently a gender-neutral pronoun, first used in David Lindsay’s 1920 novel ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’ for an alien race, which appeared human but was formed by air.
“Peh,” meanwhile, can be used by anyone, regardless of gender identity or expression, and has its origins in a science fiction comic published on the Internet.
However, most of the pronouns on the list come from Tumblr, a microblogging social media site founded in 2007 and popular with teenage girls.
Terry Barnes, a journalist and political consultant who has written on the topic of pronouns in the pastcalled it an ‘absurd fad’.
“The thing about pronouns is that they are the way others want to describe us based on what they see,” he told Daily Mail Australia.
‘Apart from ‘he’ and ‘she’ there is no smorgasbord of pronouns from which we can choose and impose on others.
‘When I see you as a woman, you are ‘she’, or ‘he’ if you look like a man. I can respect your pronoun choices out of courtesy, but I am not obligated to do so, and I resent being forced to do so by the woke gender police.
“This absurd pronoun fad may align with the latest gender ideology, but it doesn’t trump biology and millions of years of human evolution.”
The Skin Bar, with clinics across Sydney, is popular with the A-list, including model Simone Holtznagel
Skin Bar founder Samantha Appel admitted that it was “a lot of pronouns indeed.”
“We are a modern skin clinic and in this modern world we choose to be as inclusive as possible,” she said.
“Our culture should never be unkind to those who wish to identify with their chosen pronoun.
“Our booking platform Timely has integrated these pronouns and we simply chose to include them all.”
The Skin Bar has five branches in Sydney, including locations in Bondi, Double Bay and Rozelle.
Company focuses on skin needling, a treatment in which the skin is punctured with very sharp needles to promote growth and regeneration.
Converts include model Simone Holtznagel and radio presenter Abbie Chatfield.