Is that a typo and if not I have to ask, how high are you?
Posted on 10/02/2016 12:29:37 PM PDT by drewh
A conservative student at the University of Michigan has fairly brilliantly subverted a new campus-wide policy intended to force professors — and the entire campus community — to use exotic pronouns to refer to students who insist they belong to some alternate, fictional gender.
The student, Grant Strobl, has declared that he shall henceforth be referred to as “His Majesty, Grant Strobl.”
Strobl was able to announce his new pronoun because the taxpayer-funded school launched a new web page allowing students to declare their preferred, “designated” pronouns.
A Tuesday email from Martha E. Pollack, Michigan’s provost, and E. Royster Harper, the vice president for student life, links to the Wolverine Access student web portal, which students with a free-form box to fill in their pronouns of choice in a “new Gender Identity tab within the Campus Personal Information section.”
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“A designated pronoun is a pronoun an individual chooses to identify with and expects others to use when referencing them (i.e., he, she, him, his, ze, etc.).”
Strobl described the email allowing students to designate their identities as “absolutely ridiculous” in an interview with The Daily Caller.
“Once professors print their rosters, they have the preferred pronouns of every student and are expected to use them,” Strobl said. “It could mean that professors could be disciplined for using pronouns incorrectly.”
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“I expect that the university will honor its commitment and refer to me as ‘his majesty,'” the junior majoring in political science and international studies said. “I expect the university to treat me the same as everyone else.”
“It’s our jobs as conservatives to keep this country sane,” Strobl also noted, adding that he believes other students “are starting to change their pronouns” in ways school officials likely failed to anticipate.
“I encourage all U-M students to go onto Wolverine Access, and insert the identity of their dreams,” he told The College Fix.
Omar Mahmood, a 2016 University of Michigan graduate currently working at USA Today, suggested that he shall henceforth be called “Mr. Grand Mufti Sir” by his alma mater.
Follow Omar Mahmood @UrduDervish My preferred pronoun is 'Mr. Grand Mufti Sir.' 1:23 PM - 28 Sep 2016 Retweets 2 2 likes A Twitter hashtag — #UMPronounChallenge — now exists to lampoon the University of Michigan’s new “designated” pronouns policy.
The email from the two high-ranking University of Michigan officials details that “Designated Pronouns will automatically populate on all class rosters accessed through Wolverine Access. Rosters pulled from other systems will not have designated pronouns listed. If a student does not designate a pronoun, none will be listed for them.” (RELATED: University Of Michigan Web Page Encourages Students To Change Their Pronouns)
“Asking about and correctly using someone’s designated pronoun is one of the most basic ways to show your respect for their identity and to cultivate an environment that respects all gender identities,” the email pontificates.
Students and professors who fail to use biologically wrong or completely made-up pronouns “can acknowledge that you made a mistake, and use the correct pronoun next time.”
The end of the email expresses gratitude to the “pronoun committee” which “worked the past year to formulate this process.”
The Gender Identity tab allows UM students to change their pronoun to whatever they wish at any time, opening up the possibility that a student could demand a new pronoun every single day.
michigan-email-via-twitter-prageru University of Michigan email via Twitter: PragerU
Guides on “proper prounoun usage” are all the rage on college campuses this academic year. Officials at schools around the country are pushing students to swap out pronouns such as he, she, him and his for gender neutral prounouns such as “ve,” “ver” and “vis.” There’s also the basic “they” as well as “thon,” “xe,” “faerself,” “hir,” “xyr” — and much else. (RELATED: Taxpayer-Funded University Instructs Students That Using The Wrong Pronouns Is ‘OPPRESSIVE’)
This fall, Vanderbilt University festooned its campus with professionally-designed posters which instruct students to use strange pronouns to refer to students and professors who refuse to admit they are either males or females. (RELATED: Overpriced Fancypants University Festoons Campus With Absurd ‘Ze, Zir, Zirs’ PRONOUN POSTERS)
And West Virginia University’s Title IX office recently warned students that referring to someone by the “wrong” gender pronoun is a violation of federal anti-discrimination law under Title IX. (RELATED: West Virginia University: Calling Someone The ‘Wrong’ Prounoun Is A Title IX Violation)
Well, they can DATE, but let’s hope they don’t reproduce, LOL!
“Doctor Miguelito Loveless” works for me.
But only on Mondays.
The rest of the time, I’m “The High Llama”!!
I am going to go with “I’m an idiot.”.
Anyone addressing me has to say, “I’m an idiot.”
Now is the time to Alinsky the Alinskites by coming up with thousands of personal pronouns.
I kinda like “His Royal Highness” as the way I would want to be addressed on this campus.
Lest we forget, ‘Sowande Omokunde’, also known as, ‘Supreme Solar Allah,’ son of Milwaukeestan Rep. Gwen Moore (D, WI)!
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/14/culture-of-corruption-milwaukee-edition/
“As you may recall, Omokunde was one of four Democratic staffers who pleaded guilty to misdemeanors for slashing tires on 25 vans hours before Republican Party officials were to use them to drive voters to the polls on election day 2004. In April, Omokunde was sentenced to four months in jail and fined $1,000 for his role in the much-publicized caper.
But he obviously had a soft landing. How many other criminals can walk out of jail and into a job on a congressional campaign payroll?”
Short answer? Every Democrat Everywhere!
Has anyone mentioned that “His Majesty” is not a pronoun?
clever :)
Ed (MSEE)
Is that a typo and if not I have to ask, how high are you?
“I told all four of my children: I will in no way, shape or form help you with college if you go to U of M.”
University of Michigan is now just as bad as those kooks in California....heaven deliver us.
It’s good but now he will have to use that on every paper he writes from English Lit to History to all of it. I wonder how long he will put up with that? He’ll also have to use it in class while verbally explaining himself on a answer to a question or a speech etc. I think it will get old after awhile.
Is “potentate of the universe” taken? ‘Cause that’s want I want to be addressed as.
No, not a typo.
The High Llama is the head of Shangri-la, in James Hilton’s book, Lost Horizon.
In the movie the High Llama is played by Sam Jaffee. One of Frank Capra’s best films, IMHO!
I like Lord High Executioner!
Ah, I see. Caught me with my trivia down.
I’ll have to watch for TCM to play that.
I hope that tomorrow Doctor Miguelito Loveless
will have forgotten my transgression.
Psalm 55
9Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words,
for I see violence and strife in the city.
10Day and night they prowl about on its walls;
malice and abuse are within it.
11Destructive forces are at work in the city;
threats and lies never leave its streets.
“The one-l lama, he’s a priest;
The two-l llama, he’s a beast.
But I will bet a striped pajama,
You never saw a three-l lllama . . .”
Is Bigus Dickus taken?
“I figured ‘his’ is an established pronoun and I entered ‘majesty’ — an honorific,”
“I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called ‘Biggus Dickus’.”
Well, he’s wrong ... and for direct address, they’d have to use “Your Majesty,” which is gender neutral.
Nobody studies grammar these days.
Seriously, though, I’m amused at the whole thing, although I see the value for foreign students in being able to identify their sex to the instructor/other students. What American knows whether Chen Min is a guy or a girl?
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