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UT Knoxville encourages students to use gender-neutral pronouns
WJHL-TV ^ | August 27, 2015

Posted on 08/27/2015 2:58:46 PM PDT by don-o

The University of Tennessee is asking students to use “ze, hir, hirs, and xe, xem, xyr.”

No, those words are not another language. They’re actually the gender-neutral singular versions of pronouns.

The University of Tennessee Office for Diversity and Inclusion is asking students and faculty to use the pronouns in order to create a more inclusive campus. They say it alleviates a heavy burden for people expressing different genders or identities.

“We should not assume someone’s gender by their appearance, nor by what is listed on a roster or in student information systems,” Donna Braquet, the Director of the University of Tennessee’s Pride Center said. “Transgender people and people who do not identify within the gender binary may use a different name than their legal name and pronouns of their gender identity, rather than the pronouns of the sex they were assigned at birth.”

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To: don-o

If I see this in writing, I’m gonna stop reading it, whatever it is.

If some one speaks to me using these made-up words, I will stop listening.

I refuse to use their made-up words. Nope. Not doing it.


41 posted on 08/27/2015 4:15:24 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: don-o

Using “gender neutral” pronouns does not make humans gender neutral, as they wish.


42 posted on 08/27/2015 4:18:39 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: don-o

Far more honest to just use “IT”


43 posted on 08/27/2015 4:20:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: don-o
This is Tennessee taxpayer-subsidized, right?

Somebody's head should roll.

44 posted on 08/27/2015 4:25:07 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Semper Fi.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck


45 posted on 08/27/2015 4:27:31 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: don-o

So the golden oldies need to be renamed, “Ze’s So Fine”, Ze Loves You”, “Ze’s a Fool”, “Ze’s a rebel”. What would Sinatra’s “Luck be a LADY tonight” be renamed? Does the classic Temptations hit “My Girl” evoke perceptions of male heterocentric dominance? Is Aerosmith’s “Dude looks like a Lady” transphobic? The politically correct NOT SEES must be loads of laughs at parties.


46 posted on 08/27/2015 4:29:17 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: don-o

I think I will stick with calling men “he”, women “she”, and people who don’t know which sex they are “pervert”.

What’s next? Will we need to refrain from calling people human because they identify as some other species?


47 posted on 08/27/2015 5:13:50 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Wait! You said “boycott”. That is a microagression toward me. I am a woman, so I think the word should be “girlcott”.


48 posted on 08/27/2015 5:16:25 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Bigg Red

Dang, Dang, Dang

I have been SOOOOOO careful.

How soon till I have DHS at my door?


49 posted on 08/27/2015 5:29:37 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Maybe we can meet up in the re-education camp.


50 posted on 08/27/2015 5:40:03 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: healy61

That brought a chuckle


51 posted on 08/27/2015 8:30:02 PM PDT by lesko
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To: Bigg Red
Wait! You said “boycott”. That is a microagression toward me. I am a woman, so I think the word should be “girlcott”.
You may be on to something! How did women, or those of "alternative genders" feel when Sony released those Game BOYS? Would they feel comfortable dining at a Bob's Big BOY? Or Burger KING? And what do we do with the old car nuts who own these beautiful behemoths:

The Buick RoadMASTER. Sounds kinda racist as well as paternal-heterosexist.
52 posted on 08/27/2015 10:13:36 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: All

They’re actually the gender-neutral singular versions of pronouns.


According to whom?


53 posted on 08/27/2015 11:22:49 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (My hope for America died 11-06-12.)
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To: cva66snipe

I’m stuck with Marsha Blackburn here in the 6th. She’s turned into a go-along to get-along type. Does anything Boehner wants.


54 posted on 08/28/2015 12:04:08 PM PDT by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Perhaps you are already aware of this. I wish I was making it up.

There is a trend now in listing real estate to refer to the master bedroom as the “owner’s bedroom”. The word “master” is, apparently, offensive!


55 posted on 08/28/2015 4:31:25 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: don-o

I prefer to be called “Your Majesty”.


56 posted on 08/28/2015 4:32:17 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Impala64ssa

I think my father had Buick Roadmaster. It was not white and not a convertible, however. Would have been around 1955, I think. His was blue. I remember that it had “dynaflo” —if I remember the word correctly —whatever that is. I’m a woman, and not a car person. (But I can appreciate the beauty of the car in the picture that you posted.)


57 posted on 08/28/2015 4:35:18 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Bigg Red

Yes, Dynaflow, it was Buick’s first auto transmission, a reliable unit, but Buicks equipped with this transmission were gas hogs, they only got 12-13 mpg.


58 posted on 08/28/2015 4:54:32 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Bigg Red
There is a trend now in listing real estate to refer to the master bedroom as the “owner’s bedroom”. The word “master” is, apparently, offensive!
Oh, yeah, it's been that way in real estate for quite some time now. What's surprising though, is listings for homes in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods like Williamsburg in Brooklyn, or Monsey, Monroe or by the old bungalow colonies in the Catskills, they're allowed to put in phrases like "walk to Temple", as long as they'res no specific mention that the listing is in a Jewish neighborhood.
59 posted on 08/28/2015 5:00:27 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: exDemMom

This is the dumbing down of the language. Until very recently gender was never used to refer to maleness or femaleness of a human being. My sex is male. The word male has a masculine gender.

Further evidence of the dumbing down is that you think the word sex is a verb. It is not. You do not sex. You have sexual intercourse.

Referring to new edition of a dictionary only proves my point.


60 posted on 08/30/2015 1:31:33 PM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
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