Posted on 03/29/2017 7:58:04 AM PDT by Boomer
A Northern Arizona University student lost credit on an English paper for using the word “mankind" instead of a gender-neutral alternative.
Cailin Jeffers, an English major at NAU, told Campus Reform that she received an email from one of her professors, Dr. Anne Scott, informing her that she had been docked one point out of a possible 50 on a recent paper for “problems with diction (word choice)” related to her use of the word “mankind” as a synonym for “humanity.”
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“Humanity” also has “man” in it. Uh-oh: so does “woman.” Maybe she should have written “humynity?”
huMANity - looks like Dr Scott also has problem with her diction, along with a number of other mental problems.
I had that happen something like 4 decades ago. Seriously. That’s old guard feminist ideology.
Well played. You beat me to the punch.
Gotta know your audience. Next time, try “gender-neutral carbon life forms”.
Bill Cosby: Why did God call her woman? Because he looked at what he created and said, Woo, man!
It’s interesting when you do a search on words beginning with ‘man’ and words that end in ‘man’ then words that end in ‘son’ ... or words that begin with ‘son’ ... couldn’t have used huMANity since it contains ‘man’ ... if this is what colleges are teaching, we’re doomed, or those students are.
University English departments have been leftist swamps for several decades. The time to fight this came and went in the 1980’s. Now they should just be shut down.
We have truly become a totalitarian society. We are entering an era of political reeducation worthy of Pol Pot.
gender-neutral alternative.
I question that word choice. Mankind isn’t a gender. We be male or female and that refers to a sex.
“Mankind” does refer to all people. It NEVER has meant only males. The professor should learn English.
I listen to the ESV bible on audio, and it has some of the most cockamamie translation rules ever! In one Psalm David says, “I will not be afraid of many thousands of people...”
People??? We all know back then it was MEN who amassed an army of thousands, lol. (It only took one woman, in various cases, to bring powerful men down.)
NEWSPEAK is a choice, the world doesn’t have to bend to your will commie.
I bet the one paper that got a 100% score is entirely unreadable.
I still remember my freshman English honors prof. She told us her friends called her ‘Bull Dyke’. First open lesbian I ever met, back in the early 70s.
Wow. “Mankind” is a proper, dictionary term. This professor is openly admitting to grading this student for improper thought.
On the other hand-not wow, this has been going on for decades. And to think parents mortgage their homes to pay for this indoctrination.
Mankind will now be spelled LGBTQkind. Note the lack of anything denoting heterosexuality. That’s a no-no.
Her teaching and research specialties are in the areas of medieval literature and Native American literature. Her publications, among others, include essays on Chaucer, saints' legends, Middle English romance, and Native American myths and legends. She is currently co-editing a volume of essays on the subject of "fear and its representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance." At the undergraduate level, she has taught, and continues to teach, courses in the survey of British literature (800AD to 1750AD), Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, literature of American minorities (Native American emphasis), the genre and comparative literature (multi-ethnic focus). She also teaches in the Honors program. At the graduate level, she teaches Chaucer (early and late works) and will soon be offering a new class in Native American literature.
Her areas of interest include medieval literature (religious literature, the fabliau, the breton lai, the romance), Native American literature (myths, legends, testimony, autobiography, novels, orations, contemporary poetry), oral-traditional literature and mentalities, paleography, multi-ethnic literature (including African American and Latino/a authors), and gender studies. Affiliations: Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association (RMMRA), the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). Dr. Scott has been with NAU since 1992.
https://nau.edu/cal/english/directory/anne-scott/
When minds have been dulled by decades of mindless "progressive," regressive propaganda instead of reading and understanding the "wisdom of the ages," this is the kind of petty preoccupations which result.
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