Posted on 09/13/2015 7:47:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Joe DiPietro, system president of University of Tennessee, has withdrawn a Web post that encouraged students and professors to use gender-neutral pronouns like "ze" and "zir" instead of gender specific pronouns like "she" and "her," saying it was the biggest controversy he's faced since he took office in 2011.
"The concern across the state from a really wide group of people, not just policymakers, was like nothing I've seen in my time having the privilege to serve the university," DiPietro said, according to USA Today.
"I felt the only way to move forward was to pull the website," he added.
In a memo posted to the website for the Knoxville school's Office for Diversity and Inclusion by the director of the Pride Center, Donna Braquet, it was advised that members of the university community should begin using gender neutral pronouns such as "ze," "hir," "hirs," "zir," "zirs," "xem," and "xyr" to replace standard gender binary pronouns like "he," "she," "his," "her" and "hers."
The purpose behind using gender neutral pronouns, Braquet wrote in the advisory last month, is to create a campus environment that is "welcoming and inclusive for all."
DiPietro said similar Web posts will be reviewed by the chancellor and his Cabinet in the future.
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“Includes all” is a requirement, but “we” - the university diversity office - will fight you to the death if you try to express Christian principles.
These people have too much time on their hands. Maybe he should get a real job.
They tend to re-package them and try again and again and again.
See libs think we're all just too stupid to "get it" the first time around, so the "dumb it down" for the masses. They'll never see it's the root idea to begin with. They never challenge their premises.
Or Chinese which is extremely gender neutral yet it’s a very male centric society.
PC is first and foremost a fight against reality.
Ain't America great, or what?
Photo of this gender diversity promoter.
Need I say more? A mile wide, a mile thick, and no mind at all.
No kidding. Watch for the Supreme Court to discover a fundamental human right to be addressed in this bizarre fashion. (And then to outlaw "he" and "she" as bigotry.)
And make them personally financially responsible because you know zat wasn’t free.
Z A zay, Z E zee, Z I zicky-zie, Z O zoe, zicky-zie zoe zue Z U, zicky-zie zoe zue.
He should loos his job!
You left out Heil Hitler!
When one lives in an echo chamber one comes up with ideas like this.
Sort of like the Spanish monarch with the lisp which caused all of royalty (and upper-class) Spaniards to imitate it.
Moe, Larry & Curley would have been better instructors.
What a loss to our language, our culture, our heritage!
We already have a pronoun that is suitable: it.
How many were going to St. Ives?
Every “court” has its lackeys.
Sounds like a lot of alums were not happy with this. Money talks. Good for them.
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