Posted on 09/03/2015 4:54:39 PM PDT by markomalley
Gender-neutral pronouns have hit Harvard.
“The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ registration tool now gives students the option to choose preferred gender pronouns for the first time,” The Harvard Crimson campus newspaper reports.
On the page that typically asks students to write down their gender marker—examples of which include “male,” “female,” and “transgender”—they could also manually write in preferred gender pronouns when they registered this week. Examples on the page included “ze, hir, hirs” and “they, them, theirs.”
FAS Registrar Michael P. Burke said the change, which administrators have discussed for a number of years, was intended to “make students feel more comfortable with their gender identity” at Harvard and ease students’ relationships with faculty and advisers, some of whom will be able to see their pronoun information.
The news follows on the heels of the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s controversial request to the campus community to use “gender-neutral pronouns” such as “ze, xe, xem, xyr, zirs and hirs.”
Read the full Crimson article.
They need to read up on Robespierre and something known to history as the “Reign of Terror”
It won’t last that long.
I have a sense that we have become the laughingstock of the world.
Thanks, Democrats (and other fellow-travelers).
It is still giving gender specific names no matter what you call them. Call them all “it” ....
A $19 Trillion debt crisis will quickly turn people’s minds away from asinine things like ze, hir, hirs.
And with special tutoring they might be able to pick their noses and butts.
It is already unrecognizable. Liberals ruin everything. They are insane. They can’t tell between male and female, human baby and not human baby, a real threat (terrorism) and a fake threat (global warming), etc.
Screw xem!
“I’m sorry, I don’t speak f@ktard...”
“And with special tutoring they might be able to pick their noses and butts”.
And that’s no exaggeration.
“They need to read up on Robespierre and something known to history as the “Reign of Terror””
Or in Harvard transgenderist speak, “ze rain o’terra”.
I shared that for free. Some dopes are paying for it.
The total 2015-2016 cost of attending Harvard College without financial aid is $45,278 for tuition and $60,659 for tuition, room, board and fees combined.
The good news is that Scrabble players will have some new words for those leftover X’s and z’s. And if Grandma objects, just tell her that these are words made up by the brilliant intellectuals at places like Hahvahd.
Who made this cr@p up? Professors in the faculty lounge as they passed the pipe around?
It’s interesting that the left wins one battle moving the country to a ridiculous position, then immediately doubles down with an even more ridiculous proposal.
I think this is a clever progression on their part - not sure if it is really as coordinated as it may sound, but not so sure. Basically - once they get this accepted in universities, it will come to the point where general society is expected to adopt it. And when reasonable people won’t - they will be branded as “hateful” (with all of the usual descriptions - “something”-phobic) and the needle moves further, and conservatives/normal people are pushed to the sidelines as out of the mainstream.
Seems like a great strategy to move the country further leftward all the time - how do we stop/counter it?
It’s worth the expense if we don’t have to do it for them! /s
Somewhere, somehow, taxpayers are paying for at least some of this zhit.
Waiting for this crap to hit corporate America next - it’s only a matter of time.
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