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Final Community Conversation focuses on using personal pronouns in classroom and social settings
The University Daily Kansan (Student Newspaper) ^ | November 16, 2015 | by Lara Korte

Posted on 11/17/2015 8:56:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No wonder the Muslim world laughs at us. A country that destroyed Japan and Germany has descended to a nation where the headlines now claim the biggest fight in our time is what we call mentally ill people that want to chop off their body parts and hiding a confederate flag.


21 posted on 11/17/2015 10:30:20 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I teach some adult basic education classes. Recently when starting a new class, two female students came in early to see if they were in the right place. I asked them their names and checked my class list. One of the names appeared to me to be a man’s name, but it was a foreign name, so what do I know. This person appeared to be a cute young girl. This person was feminine, had what I considered to be a woman’s hairstyle, was wearing girl jeans and a women’s top and women’s jewelry, and had on eye makeup and lip gloss.

Since they were there considerably early, they left and said they would be right back. Only one of them came back — not the one I just described. I asked her about her friend, if “she” was coming back. She corrected me. “He. He will be coming back.”

I was confused a bit, but my confusion was removed when I noticed that, going by the chestal area, this person was definitely a male.

So I refer to this person with masculine pronouns and there has never been an issue since. I don’t teach at a fancy university, though, and I guess that such a simple, common-sense solution would not be worthy of a fancy university.


22 posted on 11/17/2015 10:36:34 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: grobdriver
"You got boobs? You're a "She".

No boobs? You're a "He"."

What about Keira Knightley?


23 posted on 11/17/2015 10:38:46 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

She needs a cheeseburger


24 posted on 11/17/2015 10:40:04 AM PST by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: TheGipperWasRight
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.

I will call that my "Progressive" description, and stealing that line with the change of one word.

Thanks.

25 posted on 11/17/2015 10:42:11 AM PST by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We already have a sex-less pronoun: IT.


26 posted on 11/17/2015 1:36:50 PM PST by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: Jack Hammer

I think the CDC had a hand in creating this pathology.


27 posted on 11/17/2015 1:38:01 PM PST by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

when not referring to a dog, is bitch a feminine pronoun?


28 posted on 11/17/2015 1:38:47 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trumping.)
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To: Vic S

Sounds like colleges have become brain-washing institutes.


29 posted on 11/17/2015 6:32:04 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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