Call me 'ze,' not 'he': University [of Tennessee] wants everyone to use 'gender inclusive' pronouns

FoxNews.com ^ | August 27, 2015 | Todd Starnes

[Timber Rattler]

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By Todd Starnes Published August 27, 2015 FoxNews.com Facebook106 Twitter35 livefyre36 Email Print University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

Educators in the Volunteer State are very concerned that students might be offended by the usage of traditional pronouns like she, he, him and hers, according to a document from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

“With the new semester beginning and an influx of new students on campus, it is important to participate in making our campus welcoming and inclusive for all,” wrote Donna Braquet in a posting on the university’s website. “One way to do that is to use a student’s chosen name and their correct pronouns.”

Braquet, who is director of the university’s Pride Center, suggested using a variety of gender neutral pronouns instead of traditional pronouns.

[Timber Rattler]

The stupidity has even affected the Volunteers...

[BenLurkin]

This has got to be somebody’s idea of a joke.

[Pearls Before Swine]

You mean, “the stupidity has even affected ZE volunteers.”

[AppyPappy]

Ze papers. I vant to see your papers.

[Vaquero]

They can go f*** zirselves

[Rennes Templar]

I could see this at Berkeley, but Tennessee?

[brivette]

I zee. May I zee your papers?

[laweeks]

I wish these academic frauds would tangle with the Spanish language where there are masculine and feminine endings, some with no particular reasons. C’mon. Be fair. Tell the Mexicans that their language stinks instead of worrying about a handful of pronouns. C’mon, academia!

[RightGeek]

"it" works too

[Buckeye McFrog]

but, ze vill sound like ze is affecting a very bad French accent, no?

[headsonpikes]

It must be satire.

It must be.

[ScottinVA]

Ze Gabor sisters would be offended by this stereotyping of Hungarian people.

[MeganC]

It’s not a joke. Donna Braquet is a man-hating dyke and this is just her particular approach to bullying and intimidating everyone else into going along with her despicable and contemptible agenda.

[lee martell]

This is a game that I won’t be playing.

[NorthMountain]

People like this should be tarred, and feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail, and dumped in a swamp.

[BigEdLB]

Ze papers. I vant to see your papers.

[Vendome]

[M Kehoe]

Zuiderzee. I know, I'm shallow.

5.56mm

[jonascord]

Tell me, again, that we shouldn't gas everyone on the bottom half of the Bell curve, in self defense.

Just when I think they can't go deeper, someone throws out another shovel full.

[RinaseaofDs]

Ze needs to be fired. This is taxpayer money that came up with this merde.