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Joe DiPietro, system president of University of Tennessee, has withdrawn a Web post that encouraged students and professors to use gender-neutral pronouns like "ze" and "zir" instead of gender specific pronouns like "she" and "her,"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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A xam or a xir,
Egzept zim or zir
For whazzever yt myte bi
Iz tyme for Tranzjenderxi
Here comes “Pat!”
He should loos his job!
“Are you being sarcastic? “
Nope, just a typo. How about loose.
As in Claire Booth.
Nope. Try again. Third time could be the charm.
Yep. I clicked on something and it went to pictures. One was the homo flag. Is UT the most liberal college in the SEC? There are a few others which might qualify for that title.
Hey, how’d that that little contest with Oklahoma turn out yesterday? (disclaimer: one of my all time favorite college teams is whoever is playing Tennessee),
LOL! Love it!
I guess people being repulsed and confused when a “transgender” would say, “The first thing I do after school when I walk in the door is give my ZIT a big squeeze.”
I’m still wondering why some sniveling excuse for a university president thought it was a good idea to encourage students to use words that never actually existed in the English language. Was the idea to make everybody use non-existent, completely made-up words in an effort to get everyone to feel equally stupid? Cuz that’s really the only result this particular edict could possibly have.
How about innie & outie?
In the spirit of equality, this moron doesn’t have any more legitimacy to dictate pronouns than I do. Therefore, we will all use the all-encompassing generic pronoun “bvrxjflqddd’qzw’j” to denote all people, singular and plural. Any refusal will be met with having to listen to hillary deliver all of bvrxjflqddd’qzw’j speeches.
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