Posted on 09/13/2015 7:47:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Joe DiPietro, system president of University of Tennessee, has withdrawn a Web post that encouraged students and professors to use gender-neutral pronouns like "ze" and "zir" instead of gender specific pronouns like "she" and "her," saying it was the biggest controversy he's faced since he took office in 2011.
"The concern across the state from a really wide group of people, not just policymakers, was like nothing I've seen in my time having the privilege to serve the university," DiPietro said, according to USA Today.
"I felt the only way to move forward was to pull the website," he added.
In a memo posted to the website for the Knoxville school's Office for Diversity and Inclusion by the director of the Pride Center, Donna Braquet, it was advised that members of the university community should begin using gender neutral pronouns such as "ze," "hir," "hirs," "zir," "zirs," "xem," and "xyr" to replace standard gender binary pronouns like "he," "she," "his," "her" and "hers."
The purpose behind using gender neutral pronouns, Braquet wrote in the advisory last month, is to create a campus environment that is "welcoming and inclusive for all."
DiPietro said similar Web posts will be reviewed by the chancellor and his Cabinet in the future.
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What a Maroon!
Ze, zir, sounds like Pepi Le-Peux.
Not just pull the web site but fire anyone associated with this stupid idea, then resign.
Amazing when liberals realize the stupidity of their “ideas.”
The pipe in the admnistrators’ offices must have burned itself empty.
“As a Professional Fool, I was too stupid to see that the general public would take a giant bite out of my backside in a place like Tennessee. My butt hurts”
Ze’s lucky the alumni didn’t demand ze be tossed out on zis ass!
We are paying these people to make our future generations stupid.
It was stupid idea when Libs tried to insert similar pronoun changes/usages 40 years ago, and it is a stupid idea now.
It is nothing more than the PC crowd run amok. Their existence is based on change for the sake of change — because something offends them.
Stupidity is magnified with a major institution, such as a state university, jumps on such a bandwagon. The Board of Trustees should really consider a purge of administrators and faculty who engage in such stupidity.
“Amazing when liberals realize the stupidity of their “ideas.”
They tend to re-package them and try again and again and again....
“create a campus environment that is “welcoming and inclusive for all.” “
Except to men and women who prefer to be identified by their actual genders and not some retarded liberal nonsense like calling them all “ze”. Liberals are stupid.
Newspeak=double stupid
The citizens should demand his head on a pike at the main gate to the university as a reminder to all other leftist dolts. This one set an over the top record for stupidity.
Ze must have been out of zis freakin’ mind to begin with. Or ze was infected by za PC viruz and hoping to make a name for zimzelf in progrezzive zirclez.
Legislature should whack them $50 million on the budget just to send a message. If they can afford dumb asses like these people then there is too much $$ in the system.
Consider his name, Joe DiPietro. "Joe" is obviously not gender-neutral. Fix that by removing all the vowels. Now we have J DiPietro. But that name is still offensive to many. It's as if he (ze) were in-your-face bragging about Italian cultural superiority. So fix that by removing all the vowels in the last name also.
So in this brave new PC world, J Dptr, that's the only name he (ze) should be comfortable with.
I believe the theory is based on the idea that our language’s pronouns’ inate structure limits our ability the see or think beyond an individual’s sex—ie. as soon as we say ‘she’ we are referring to a female. This of course, explains the vile treatment women receive in English-speaking countries like the U.S.
The problem with this theory is that compared to most languages, English has very few gender markers. There is an Indo-European language that does feature gender-free pronouns—Persian or Farsi and we all know how well women are treated in Iran and Afghanistan.
Thanks to "tenure", no.
Those "words" look like some my spelling
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