give-em all numbers... but some will get pissed for being called odd
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.
Maybe womb-bearers.
Coeds!
From the Mount Holyoke website:
Admission
Since 1837, we’ve made it our mission to prepare women to face the future. To take the lead. To make a difference. The requirements? Be smart, determined, and willing to embrace change.
Mount Holyoke women build robots, stand for social justice, and climb mountains. They write for the Washington Post and give TEDx talks. They start nonprofits. Teach first-aid in Peru. Spend their summers working at the Smithsonian and on Capitol Hill. And that’s all before graduation.
I keep in mind that I have to be careful about using words I don't know the precise meaning for. When I was 13, I had a friend who called his mother a "dildo" and she hauled off and belted him fully in the face! He wasn't too bright, but had heard the word and used it because it was apparently negative, and SHE understood both the mouthy negativity AND the precise meaning of the word!
I was working with an elderly patient one time, and had to reposition her on a table. I had a young, attractive blonde, fair-skinned woman from Australia I worked with on the other side helping me, and I as I was looking at her pretty face across from me, I gently asked the patient to "slide her fanny" a little to my side. The Australian woman across from me turned beet red, the shade in a solid line progressing vertically in stages from her neck to her pretty face, and she put the tips of the fingers of her hand over her lips in the universal sign of "Yoooou said something wrong!"
I picked up immediately, was puzzled, and started sputtering "Wha...what? What?"
She told me later that the term "fanny" meant something entirely different in Australia than it does here in America...down there, it is a more, er.."concealed" part of the female anatomy!
These women had better realize they’re women or they are in for a rude surprise when they get out in the real world.
First of all, nobody knows your SAT scores anymore, and they all think they’re as smart as you are or smarter, even the dumbest ones.
Secondly, the law of the jungle takes over. Welcome to the men’s club.
Where’s the National Organization of Women when you need them?
HAHA, hilarious, a gender neutral all women’s school.
Obama sure has brought us things we didn’t expect.
“Hey you!”
“-——— various types of disrespect,” such as “professors who mispronounce their names, call them by the wrong name entirely, misgender them, and so on.
When did mispronouncing a name be considered “disrespect”?
Madness.
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If it’s an all woman school, then shouldn’t they only allow students who identify as a woman? Or does self identified gender not count when it comes to real world decisions?
Fulfill their wildest dreams! Call them victims!
One must also avoid saying, “we’re all people here” because that would be species-ist, and we wouldn’t want to make assumptions about how anyone might identify. We want to be species neutral and species inclusive.
And of course we must never say “we’re all here” because maybe some of our students aren’t all here. Mustn’t disparage those who don’t have their act together. Then again, maybe they aren’t all there or all here, so we shouldn’t use either one.
Wouldn’t want to say “We here” because that might alienate our native ebonics speakers, so we’ll go with “Us here.”
At Holyoke a more apt form of address or reference would be “lunatics.”
Do they not like being women? Why do so many leftists not like being called what they are? Seems to be a theme with them.
give-em all numbers... but some will get pissed for being called odd
Heheheh...these people are deranged, but it provides fertile ground for ridicule!
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