Posted on 03/21/2018 9:21:55 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
A guide issued recently by Mount Holyoke College, an all-women's school, instructs professors to avoid calling students "women" in order to promote a "gender neutral" classroom environment. The school also offers two other guides on "Inclusive Teaching" and "Intersectionality in the Classroom" that give advice for dealing with "oppression and privilege."
A Mount Holyoke College, an all-women’s school, is asking professors to avoid calling students “women” or otherwise referring to “the two genders.”
The Supporting Trans and Non-Binary Students guide was created by officials at the college, which touts its legacy as an all-women’s college, in an effort to promote a “gender neutral” classroom environment.
"When discussing the student body, say ‘Mount Holyoke students’ rather than ‘Mount Holyoke women.’"
“When discussing the student body, say ‘Mount Holyoke students’ rather than ‘Mount Holyoke women,’” it instructs professors. “Avoid making statements like ‘We’re all women here...’, or referring to ‘...the two genders...’”
The guide claims that “many students spend the first day of class braced against various types of disrespect,” such as “professors who mispronounce their names, call them by the wrong name entirely, misgender them, and so on.”
To avoid accidentally insulting students, the guide instructs faculty members to avoid calling names from attendance rosters and instead invite students to introduce themselves during class.
Establishing “mutual trust” is crucial for professors to accomplish as soon as possible, preferably during the first day of class, the guide explains, stating that “students who are worried about not being treated with respect can’t concentrate on what we’re [professors] saying.”
The college also released a companion guide on “Intersectionality in the Classroom,” which encourages professors to take an “intersectional approach” in the classroom by “becoming aware of the multiple forms of oppression and privilege each individual faces and how they interact with one another.”
For example, “two transgender students from different class or racial backgrounds are going to have different perspectives and life experiences, even though they have one identity in common.”
Another new guide put out by the Massachusetts college on “Inclusive Teaching” warns professors that their classrooms “are never neutral spaces and are marked by the same inequalities, exclusion, and power struggles that exist elsewhere in the world.”
“The point is not to claim a privileged space for the classroom that is somehow exempt from those dynamics, but to work to eliminate them where we can, confront them honestly when we cannot, and find ways to listen and include all our students in equitable, just ways,” it concludes.
All three guides were created by the Mount Holyoke College Teaching and Learning Initiative, which strives to serve as a resource for professors to become better teachers.
Campus Reform reached out to the school for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
I always called them chicks.
But that’s just me.
This should be a funny thread...of course, ridicule is not only our best weapon, it is what is richly deserved by these mental midgets.
What should he call them? Byatches?
That seems to be a neutral term now used for both men and women.
Ahahaha. That's a clown college, bro.
“Babes”? “Skirts”? Come on, we need a little guidance here...
This has to be satire. lol
They need to wall off that school and declare it an insane asylum. No gun zone, for sure.
Bookmark under more insanity.
Dames? Broads? Pancakes?
What to call them? More like WHEN to call them. The answer???? Every time I want a sammich.
My Uncle Eddie called them broads.
It’s illegal and unconstitutional to have a college that excludes men. If there’s a law that “allows” it, that law is invalid and non-binding.
I hope that thousands of men let their hair grow and declare themselves to be women, and apply to the college. The college cannot reject them, because orthodox trans doctrine says that they are whatever they declare themselves to be.
Call them girls.
skirts and another I cannot say.
Ignorance is bliss.
bimbos, shanty tramps, trailer park turleens
*: liberal arts education having totally morphed into an indoctrination program in political correctness run wild... while quadrupling in cost
I mean, I don’t get it. First they tell me a guy in drag is a woman and then they won’t let me call him one. Where’s the social justice in that?
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