Posted on 09/02/2015 4:06:23 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon
The western world is going to have to change the way it measures history. We had Before Christ (BC) and anno Domini (AD)...and now we have After Sanity (AS).
I don't know when we should mark it's beginning, 2008? 2012? If we're not going to base it on Obama's election then at a minimum we're in the year 1 AS. The reasons are many, the Iran nuke deal, the Jenner formerly known as Bruce, Miley Cyrus in general...or maybe we'll just go with this:
The University of Tennessee in Knoxville is ditching gendered pronouns.What?!? No thanks...Get ZE hell outta here!According to the university, students and staff are being asked to ditch "he" and "she" to make the campus more gender-neutral.
Instead, the school's Office for Diversity and Inclusion...AKA one of a myriad of reasons why college tuition is WAY more expensive than a generation ago.
...wants everyone on campus to use all-inclusive words like "ze" to make it easier to include all genders...Within the last couple of years, Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center representative Leah Ford decided ze did not want to be labeled as she or he.Move over "sticks and stones," here comes "words"..."Ze, zim, zirs, people just choose what feels most comfortable to them," said Ford. Ford felt most comfortable when people used gender neutral pronouns.
"When I am asked what my pronouns are it makes me feel a lot more comfortable," said Ford.
A 2-question pop quiz to those "gender warriors" out there:
1. Please select the photo above where the man and woman humans look more comfortable.
2. Please select the statements that sound more "gender neutral":
Wow! She has a really nice rack! OR Wow! Ze has a really nice rack!
His prostate is giving him trouble again. OR Zirs prostate is giving him trouble again.
She's about to deliver a baby! OR Ze's about to deliver a baby!
............Someone stop the planet, I want to get off I want to kick these morons (a gender neutral term, but I won't wait for their thanks) off.
Image via KLTV.
Cool. Eliminate Title IX.
I hope that the students and faculty at this university REVOLT and refuse to use the “gender neutral” system!!!!
Once upon time, I was a faculty member and an administrator in a highly-valued unit of an up-and-coming university. Our entire unit—students, faculty, staff, and administrators—DESPISED “gays”.
Because of the higher administration trying to implement an earlier version of “diversity” and “inclusion”, we all invented a set of words and terms to allow us to express our disdain for “gays” without setting off alarm bells in the university president’s office and in the office for “diversity” or whatever it was called. I imagine that the fact that our unit was so highly valued helped us, and no one got into trouble.
Under this new system, I don’t suppose that what we did would work anymore. Only open revolt—perhaps driven by Southern pride—would have a chance!!!!
Funny stuff. These are the castrated poodles who the elitists will expect to go door-to-door and collect firearms. The elitist pigs best start imagining themselves hanging from lampposts.
notice as they change to politically correct pronouns all the humor is lost in their faces and they look like angry and bitter sourpusses
looks like an IT to me... 
Zey want to change how everyone else refers to zem, but
zey are still referring to zemselves using the pronoun “I”.
Which is elitist and non-inclusive and hurts my feelings.
To the gulag wit zem pronto.
I absolutely noticed that!
I absolutely noticed that!
lets see how these dumb _______s do when ISIS is cutting their heads off
I’ll continue to use “it”.
If, as some have claimed, ebonics is its own language and should be respected, why can’t the LGBTQAetc crowd have their language? Just don’t expect the rest of us to pick it up. We might want to keep understanding each other.
The language changes gradually without any help. No group of insane college students is going to change the language.
“Idiots”
You forgot the Z. zit.
Ze and zir are still different. I assume one is for males and the other for females? They are OK with different pronouns as long as they aren’t he or she? How much does it cost to attend that school?
my bad... 8^)
Does this mean we can’t just use “dude” and “babe”?
Idiots. This is just importing a foreign language into English.
Dutch pronoun
she. Is zij/ze
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