University of Leipzig switches to feminine professor titles for men

TheLocal.de ^ | 5 Jun 13 08:14 CET | (The Local/kkf)

[Olog-hai]

The University of Leipzig has voted to adopt the feminine version of the word for “professor” as its default. In German, Professorin refers to a female professor while Professor is the male equivalent.

Under the new measures, written documents will use the term Professorinnen when referring to professors in general. A footnote is to explain that male professors are also included in the description. …

[ilovesarah2012]

The whole world is officially insane.

[Fiji Hill]

This sort of thing might make some Leipzigers nostalgic for the days when Leipzig was in the German Democratic Republic.

[Jyotishi]

Meanwhile Hollywood now refers to actresses as “actors”.

[Billthedrill]

"When we women complain of being sidelined, as a rule our colleagues respond with a faint smile. Now that it's the other way around, the men are grumbling. Maybe we'll ultimately achieve a culture of gender equality,"

Uh huh. This poor oppressed woman is a Professor of Economics and an EU commissioner. And her cure for oppression is more oppression. She hasn't shared how that is supposed to result in a more "equal" world because it won't.

[Chode]

i guess making it gender neutral is out of the question...

[jsanders2001]

I would tell those feminazis to f#%$ off and refer to myself as professor then put Nair in their shampoo bottles for good measure....; )

[mardi59]

The whole world is officially insane.

*****

Just the left side of it. There is still hope for the right side.

[gasport]

Actrix is more accurate.

[familyop]

They may as well, because they obviously don’t plan on having any men as instructors.

[VAFreedom]

now, we also need to change manhole to womanhole, mancave to womancave, manager to womanager...
oh the womanatee...

[workerbee]

I kinda liked the Star Trek version -- everyone became "sir."

[Olog-hai]

Everyone of lower rank became “Mister”, though.

[Kozak]

That’s not Startrek, that’s Naval tradition.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Mandatory sitzpinkeln is the next step.

[SpaceBar]

now, we also need to change manhole to womanhole...

Somebody should contact Rush and inform him of the sexist nature of Manheim Steamroller.

[sourcery]

You don’t understand: Being male is sexist in itself.

[a fool in paradise]

And red will now be called “green” in efforts to eradicate color bias and add to general confusion.

[RipSawyer]

“Meanwhile Hollywood now refers to actresses as “actors”.”
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I don’t object to that, after all we don’t refer to female drivers as driveresses, on the other hand if they referred to Bruce Willis as an actress I would consider that absurd.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Meanwhile Hollywood now refers to actresses as “actors”.

And yet, for award purposes they still distinguish between, "Best Female Actor," and, "Best Male Actor."