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College requests 'grammatically incorrect' gender-neutral language
Campus Reform ^ | March 22, 2017 | Anthony Gockowski

Posted on 03/23/2017 7:33:58 AM PDT by C19fan

Sarah Lawrence College wants all official school publications to adhere to a set of “Gender Neutral Language Guidelines” that prohibit the use of terms such as “brotherhood” and “mankind.”

While the guidelines specifically apply only to “publications and policy statements whose primary audience is enrolled students” at the college, the document does make clear that “reducing unnecessary gender reference in all materials is ideal.”

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: college; language
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Doubleplusgood!!
1 posted on 03/23/2017 7:33:58 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

The future of mankind is bleak, indeed.


2 posted on 03/23/2017 7:35:41 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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Sarah Lawrence = college rich white kids attend too dumb for even Middlebury.


3 posted on 03/23/2017 7:36:46 AM PDT by C19fan
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primary audience is enrolled students

Translation: if you are a student we are entitled, and in fact quite eager, to exercise Thought Control.

4 posted on 03/23/2017 7:37:33 AM PDT by relictele (`)
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Stannis does not approve of this


5 posted on 03/23/2017 7:38:23 AM PDT by KC_Lion ("We must put our citizens first. Only then will we Make America Great Again."- Donald Trump)
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To: C19fan

This policy would have banned the playing of - or required the bleeping of - of John Lennon’s song, “Imagine,” which contains the phrase “a brotherhood of man.” The left would have banned one of its own anthems.


6 posted on 03/23/2017 7:40:28 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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The best irony has been that trans people demand to be addressed according to their gender choice.

Cis people are not allowed to demand it.

So if a girls thinks she is a boy, she can demand male gender references.
But a boy can’t make the same demand.


7 posted on 03/23/2017 7:42:01 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: C19fan

I are a collage graduite.


8 posted on 03/23/2017 7:42:02 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: grobdriver

The phrase “Oh Boy!” will soon be eliminated. Plumbing and hardware parts will no longer be referred to as male or female. Clothing will no longer be divided into men’s and women’s.


9 posted on 03/23/2017 7:43:20 AM PDT by Right Brother
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I had a good friend from high school who eventually married a woman who was not content to have a bachelor's degree from a mountain west university. He struggled as a criminal defense lawyer (focusing on public defense and defending those who could not raise money themselves), and tried to raise their small family on his relatively meager income.

His wife became disenchanted with being primarily a stay-at-home mom, and decided to pursue a Master's degree in Poetry...at Sarah Lawrence College. I'm sure that my friend supported his wife, reluctantly, in her endeavor. It likely cost them a small fortune to send her there.

I'm not sure what happened during her studies, but she eventually decided to leave her Mormon religion and became a Quaker. She and my friend divorced, and he largely raised his children alone. I'm not sure if Hallmark ever hired her to write cards for them.

10 posted on 03/23/2017 7:59:45 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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A long long time ago in a universe far away, universities used to teach pupils HOW to think. Now they train them WHAT to think.


11 posted on 03/23/2017 7:59:54 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I just got done celebrating Black History Month. Obama and Kaepernick are both history. Hurray!)
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Maybe Senator Ted Kennedy was right, we should bring back the draft.


12 posted on 03/23/2017 8:00:15 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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They’ll never be able to put on the play “How To Succeed In Business Without Even Trying”


13 posted on 03/23/2017 8:05:13 AM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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Eliminate the “gender references” in your admission policies first, eh?


14 posted on 03/23/2017 8:10:55 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Don’t say “cis people”, that is giving in to the weirdos. Just say “normal people”.


15 posted on 03/23/2017 8:16:25 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Sarah Lawrence College wants all official school publications to adhere to a set of “Gender Neutral Language Guidelines” that prohibit the use of terms such as “brotherhood” and “mankind.”

Hmmm. Sarah Lawrence College and gender neutrality? Do you think they know that the name of their college isn't "gender neutral".

16 posted on 03/23/2017 8:20:42 AM PDT by FreeReign
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Just say “normal people”.
= = =

I like that.

What will they say? NO! I am NOT normal????

Or Who are you referring to???

Or We are not both normal?


17 posted on 03/23/2017 8:25:27 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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I think we need a name for people supporting gender neutrality. Suggestions:
18 posted on 03/23/2017 8:30:54 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: C19fan
I think we need a name for people supporting gender neutrality. Suggestions:
19 posted on 03/23/2017 8:30:55 AM PDT by DannyTN
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‘Cis’, is that the prefix for a normal gender? cis male, cis female?

I like frk male, frk female or all inclusive frk it.


20 posted on 03/23/2017 8:31:38 AM PDT by Vinnie
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