Posted on 08/28/2015 6:42:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via the Examiner, I’d do what they say. In our alarming new culture of rage against microaggressions, doing otherwise might get you shot.
Rather than make brutish assumptions that someone who looks like a boy is a boy and someone who looks like a girl is a girl, the campus diversity office recommends starting the semester by asking everyone to provide their names “and pronouns.” Or better yet, why not just use new pronouns that are gender-neutral? It’ll spare you an ephemeral awkward moment when you happen to encounter someone from the tiny fraction of the tiny fraction of the population that not only identifies as trans but doesn’t want to be referred to by the pronoun of the gender they physically appear to be.
Not to play this stupid game, but I’m curious: Why does “they/them/their” turn into “xe/xem/xyr” instead of the more logical “zey/zem/zeir”? Also, why isn’t “they/them/their” proper usage for someone who’s trans, whether singular or plural? I mean, purely in terms of how it scans, “xyr” is an abomination.
Also, I’m not sure I grasp the difference between “hir/hirs” and “zir/zirs.” Which one should you use for Caitlyn Jenner? One, I think, is for a man who identifies as a woman and the other for a woman who identifies as a man, but I’ll be damned if I know which terms applies to which. The whole point of this exercise, I thought, was not to make any judgments about gender based on appearance. Doesn’t the need to choose between “hir” and “zir” force you to do that?
Either way, with respect to Caitlyn, looks increasingly like ze’s going to prison.
We are Berg Katse.
I’m kinda hoping that Iran gets nukes so our nation can worry about something real instead of this silly crap.
One more reason to pull against TN.
We should have horsewhipped these liberal faggots the second they started with the “I’m offended” BS.
There’s no question that they’re getting nukes.
Believe it or not, a country’s leader is actually directly responsible to God. Obama’s offered just too many direct insults to Him that won’t be ignored.
Use "him" for Bruce Jenner. There is no such thing as a "transgender", one can not change gender. XY Chromosome will never become XX Chromosome.
He, She, and IT!
Save time and trouble. Use ‘it’.
I am old enough to remember when UT was a respected institution of higher learning.
Why go to the trouble of making up new terms? There’s already a gender-neutral pronoun — The word “it” has served us well for a long, long time.
I don’t understand how people can’t see this as fact????
Oh, don’t act like it is limited to TN.
Bing “colleges gender neutral language”
Language control: the babbling of the insane.
Perverted people speaking a perverted language.
Babel = confusion, confusion by mixing
By extention the PC terminology of inclusiveness and diversity
I wonder how many classes are going to be dedicated in the future to analyzing how and why the United States, the greatest country ever, more dominant than Rome,
Went Insane and committed cultural suicide
Oldthinkers unbellyfeel
There are actually people who feel threatened and excluded by pronouns? Pronouns? Such people don’t belong in a university. They belong in a rubber room.
As for their enablers in the Pride Center and the university’s administration and faculty: they jerk people around because they know they can. They’ve been doing it for a long time and getting away with it. It’s hard to believe that those who came up with this weren’t at least laughed out of the room. But that wouldn’t happen, I guess, because no one wants to put up with a tantrum or get sued or be accused of some kind of “phobia.”
Maybe Volunteers fans who have had enough of the insanity should respond by giving the teams empty stands. I’ll bet that would wake up the administration real fast.
Tennessee is not a wealthy or AFAIK liberal state. How much are they paying the idiot (bet they have a garbage PhD) to come up with this crap?
It makes me worry in he back of my mind that the mullahs might actually be right.
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