Posted on 11/30/2013 9:58:02 AM PST by EveningStar
The weekly meetings of Mouthing Off!, a group for students at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, always start the same way. Members take turns going around the room saying their names and the personal pronouns they want others to use when referring to them — she, he or something else.
It's an exercise that might seem superfluous given that Mills, a small and leafy liberal arts school historically referred to as the Vassar of the West, only admits women as undergraduates. Yet increasingly, the "shes" and "hers" that dominate the introductions are keeping third-person company with "they," ''ze" and other neutral alternatives meant to convey a more generous notion of gender.
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It’s an exercise that might seem superfluous given that Mills, a small and leafy liberal arts school historically referred to as the Vassar of the West, only admits women as undergraduates. Yet increasingly, the “shes” and “hers” that dominate the introductions are keeping third-person company with “they,” ‘’ze” and other neutral alternatives meant to convey a more generous notion of gender.
“Because I go to an all-women’s college, a lot of people are like, ‘If you don’t identify as a woman, how did you get in?’” said sophomore Skylar Crownover, 19, who is president of Mouthing Off! and prefers to be mentioned as a singular they, but also answers to he. “I just tell them the application asks you to mark your sex and I did. It didn’t ask me for my gender.”
“Keep pushing back. Do not let them silence you. But also, don’t be afraid to block their ass on facebook.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/SkylarCrownover
Sadly, the number of colleges that produce graduates with even a degree of sanity are becoming fewer and farther between.
Can stand for Born With Balls or Born Without Balls...That's where they're heading as an end game - "diversify' the various permutations of perversions to the point where they finally put everyone under the same umbrella and claim there is no difference.
Paternal GF and GM both from Lesbos, so even though male, I’m half Lesbian. (although I don’t sitzenspritz!)
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