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Joe DiPietro, system president of University of Tennessee, has withdrawn a Web post that encouraged students and professors to use gender-neutral pronouns like "ze" and "zir" instead of gender specific pronouns like "she" and "her,"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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an alternative would be pull DiPietro
Didn’t take long, did it? ;-)
We sure see that with Obama, don’t we? And his wife. When the Moocher began to flex her bare arms, you saw old bags like Andrea Mitchell flexing their aged bare arms on tv. Yech!
Lol! Moe singing that to a room full of babes!
INSANITY.
“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.”
And then it becomes a war of attrition. If one is not conditioned to resist something i.e. see the basic fallacy of their premise, the people in the middle, the masses if you will, are under continual bombardment until they just come to accept it.
“Oh no! Please don’t make me resign!”
As you read his statement, with his mealy-mouthed begging about what a privilege it had been to have this gig. The guy’s afraid for his job!
Should have thought it through a little before you published that crap, you arrogant, twisted freak!
They should just call everyone Frances, Francis, Gene, Jean or Chris.
“Proclaiming to be wise, they make themselves fools...”
It is either “he she him her”
other wise they should use the pronoun “it”
Lots of morons have PhDs.
Lots of morons have PhDs.
Hey, the feminists tried it in the 70s. They wanted “thon” to substitute for all kinds of personal pronouns because “he”/”his”/”him” tended to be sexist. That didn’t take, but “their” took on extra duty, as in “Will everyone take their seat?” Anathema to anyone who dared speak the King’s (or probably the Queen’s) English.
Why do we put up with this?
Ze Volunteers Choked Big Time last night.
Are you being sarcastic? Or are you simply guilty of Word Crimes?
a lot of times these university liberal teachers are very knowledgeable in there narrow window of expertise and because of that they think they actually have wisdom witch is not knowledge but the ability to see where knowledge is applicable and the ability to call on others expertise in forming opinions. knowledge does not necessary transfer over to wisdom hence this idiot not realizing what he thought was total wackadodal crazy talk that only made him look the part of a fool.
sheesh if that isn't the most clichéd sentence of the decade....are these people afraid to change a word of it, lest it, God forbid!, become offensive😨 ?...
Yes, someone is trying awfully hard to win at Scrabble.
How impenetrable must his ivory tower be that he thought this was s good idea?
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