Posted on 03/04/2019 3:52:08 AM PST by a little elbow grease
Several schools are remaining silent on the effectiveness of their LGBTQ-inspired attempts to shift pronoun customs on campus.
Cornell University, Bryn Mawr College and the University of California, Davis are among the growing number of colleges in the United States instructing their students on using each others’ preferred pronouns. Each of the three schools suggests that students ask each other what their preferred pronouns are. The schools educate students on various types of alternative pronouns, such as “zie” and “hir.”
On Cornell’s Gender Inclusive Pronouns page, part of the school’s Diversity and Inclusion website, students are instructed that it is “best to ask” acquaintances for their preferred pronouns.
“Remember that people may change their pronouns without changing their name, appearance, or gender identity. Try making pronouns an optional part of introductions or check-ins at meetings or in class,” the website instructs. The school’s public relations department did not respond to requests for comment.
While the website acknowledges that remembering everyone’s preferred pronouns may be a difficult task, it recommends that students practice using them so they can show “respect for people of every gender.”
A document linked on the website of Bryn Mawr College’s Pensby Center for Community Development and Inclusion tells students that “asking for pronouns can prevent emotional distress from happening, and sets an example of respect.” Though the school suggests having “regular check-ins” with people in order to be sure of their preferred pronouns at any given time, it warns students against being too curious when speaking with transgender individuals.
“Do not ask about a person’s body, their potential former names, their gender, why or how they know they are a certain gender, their sexual practices, or any other questions that are invasive unless the person invites you to ask,” the school instructs students.
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LOL!!!!
Best pull-down menu on the internet! Ever!
“While the website acknowledges that remembering everyone’s preferred pronouns may be a difficult task...”
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.. but you don’t have any other difficult tasks, like understanding US history or market economics or any other kind of economics. We’ve dumbed down all your course-work to below that of a 1955 5th grader, so you’ve got the extra time to memorize all these ridiculous pronouns. So STFU and just do it.
The only personal pronouns I'll ever use.
From the article:
“Each of the three schools suggests that students ask each other what their preferred pronouns are.” and ‘“Do not ask about a person’s body, their potential former names, their gender, why or how they know they are a certain gender, their sexual practices, or any other questions that are invasive unless the person invites you to ask,” the school instructs students.’
Well, which is it? Ask stuff or don’t ask? If I were in college (and every day I thank God I’m not) I’d just use pronouns according to normal English grammar, and if anyone objected I would know not to talk to that individual at all.
LOL
Well said.
Whatever will they do if they have to learn a foreign language? Masculine, Feminine and unsually “Neuter.”
I think you’re being generous. Today’s bachelor degree is equivalent of 2nd grade 1970s student.
We’re going to need a whole new season of Schoolhouse Rock if this keeps up!
Schoolhouse Rock Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla (Pronouns)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koZFca8AkT0
The Queer Generation.
If you aren’t a “he” or a “she”, you’re an “it”.
how would you possibly use the incorrect pronoun when speaking to someone directly? Sure, I might use the wrong pronoun if I’m speaking ABOUT someone TO someone else... but generally I use YOU when speaking TO someone. In english we don’t even have two different forms of you, formal and informal... we have YOU.
Democrats are evil.
We also don’t have singular and plural forms of “you,” as many languages do. One “you” covers every situation.
Well, in the South, we have “y’all” (singular) and “all y’all” (plural), but one can get by with “you,” at the risk of being perceived as “not from around here.”
Of dourse they're not going to tell us what their weaponry is nor reveal their strategy.
President Trump TAUGHT them that two years ago.
WAKE UP AMERICA.
“zie” and “hir.”
Those aren’t even words.
Those aren’t even words.
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Yes, I was wondering the same thing.
Since I'm 72 years old I thought those might me new hip milennial words of which I was unfamiliar.
For now, being from Pittsburgh, PA ....... I'll just say, see 'younz' later".
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LOL ........ you may mean, "Today’s bachelor degree is equivalent of 4th grade early 1900's students."
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