so will these things wear tags with this crap on them to avoid butt hurt or is everybody supposed to memorize the school facebook??? and why is HIM listed at an all girls school or is it just for the dykes?
Posted on 09/20/2015 6:14:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Scripps College, a private all-women’s college in Southern California, is giving students ten pronoun options to choose from in their student portal accounts — including “hu, hum, hus, himself,” “Just My Name Please,” and “None”
It’s not clear what the hell students who choose “None” are supposed to be called, especially since “Name Only” is another option. Are they (oops! I said “they!”) asking to not be spoken to at all? Because that sounds like a microaggression.
The other eight options are “E/Ey, Em, Eir/Eirs, Eirself/Emse,” “Per, Per, Per/Pers, Perself,” “Zi, Hir/Hirs Hirself,” “Ze, Zir, Zir/Zirs, Zirself,” “They, Them, Their/Theirs, Themse” (used as a singular pronoun) and — yes — the archaic “He, Him, His, Himself” or “Her, She, Hers, Herself.”
This list of pronouns, as well as a pronunciation guide for those insensitive bigots who don’t already know them by heart, was provided to the College Fix.
The students’ selections are given to professors. It’s not clear what kind of hell a professor might have to endure for accidentally using the wrong one — but it could be serious, especially considering that at least one student considers the options to be necessary protection from “institutionalized violence.” Yes — “violence”:
“One’s gender identity should not be something that causes them anxiety in their everyday lives,” junior Rachel Neuberg told The Student Life, the official college newspaper for the affiliated Claremont and Pomona Colleges.
“I hope that Scripps will continue to create a safe and comfortable place for its students, and that other colleges will take note so we can all work together to stop institutionalized violence,” she continued.
There is, however, an obvious problem with this system: What about the gender-fluid students who may change genders and pronouns throughout the year, or even perhaps throughout the day? I can’t imagine how traumatic (dangerous?) being pressured to choose just one might be.
— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review.
This sounds like the Dutch language.
Are these women supposed to actually write papers in this fashion, and speak this new language on campus, too?
It makes ebonics sound like the King’s English.
The natural conclusion of “higher” education.
Notice: No option for “Thee” or “Thine” or anything like that.
What kind of education do these children expect to get from such a place?
“it”, “itself”
so will these things wear tags with this crap on them to avoid butt hurt or is everybody supposed to memorize the school facebook??? and why is HIM listed at an all girls school or is it just for the dykes?
RE: This sounds like the Dutch language.
Chinese (Mandarin ) have only one pronoun for HIM/HER or HE/SHE. The word is pronounced ‘TA’.
Ironically called an “all women’s college”.
How about re-naming the school to “Turd Hole”...applies much better.
What a terrible trick to play on these young female minds filled with mush.
When they graduate into the real world They will suffer one nervous microaggressive breakdown after another on discovering no one cares about their pronoun.
Can you see yourself working alongside one of these graduated in a constant state of PMS?
Academic version of the Tower of Babel - likely to work out no better than the original.
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I’ll just speak Ebonically and address everyone as, “dawg.”
Yo, dawg! Sup, dawg! Cut me some ends, dawg!
One of the strengths of English is having fewer pronoun beyond I/me, us/we, they/them, you, along with the whole complex mess of conjugating verbs that go with them.
That’s supposedly why English took off and spread, while German, with multiple tenses that we dropped; it is hard to learn.
And now liberals want to add way more complexity to the language and police you for not using the pronouns hypersensitive people who are mentally ill demand that you use.
I prefer Thou with a capital T. For Mine is the glory, the kingdom and the power, ...
Christine Hoff Summers said we’re teaching them to think pathologically, constantly looking for offense and becoming irrationally outraged at minor mistakes, as well as making people paranoid to say or do anything for fear of setting off similarly over-reacting people.
No grace for mistakes, no tolerance for those who use adjectives you think are too precise in description, and social permission to bully others based on the power of the outrage you can muster.
This means the thinnest skin, most explosive tempered person is given not only permission for outbursts but moral gravitas, as well.
And anyone who can put on a performance can bully everyone else for harmless word choices, liking an author who doesn’t fit some every changing standards list or not agreeing absolutely with the more privileged person’s claims, even when it is utterly irrational.
Here’s an idea, if they can’t decide what they prefer to be called, just don’t call them at all.
If an employer gets one of these whackos, they’ll be plagued with inter office turmoil and “EEO” complaints from these nothing burger women.
We should avoid people who require us to walk on eggshells around them for fear of offending them.
If they can’t decide, or, are embarrassed by their birth gender, they need to find an island and start a colony.
"Be A Ba, Be E Be, Be I Bicky-by, Be O Bo..."
How about “Babe”, “Honey”, or “Sweet Thing?”
English, and other Indo-European languages, has one personal pronoun. It takes different forms depending on number, case, person and gender.
All the fuss is over the third person, singular, which depending on case and gender can be expressed as
Nominative: he, she, it
Possessive: his, her, its
Objective: him, her, it
Pick a column.
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