Posted on 10/02/2016 12:29:37 PM PDT by drewh
A conservative student at the University of Michigan has fairly brilliantly subverted a new campus-wide policy intended to force professors — and the entire campus community — to use exotic pronouns to refer to students who insist they belong to some alternate, fictional gender.
The student, Grant Strobl, has declared that he shall henceforth be referred to as “His Majesty, Grant Strobl.”
Strobl was able to announce his new pronoun because the taxpayer-funded school launched a new web page allowing students to declare their preferred, “designated” pronouns.
A Tuesday email from Martha E. Pollack, Michigan’s provost, and E. Royster Harper, the vice president for student life, links to the Wolverine Access student web portal, which students with a free-form box to fill in their pronouns of choice in a “new Gender Identity tab within the Campus Personal Information section.”
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“A designated pronoun is a pronoun an individual chooses to identify with and expects others to use when referencing them (i.e., he, she, him, his, ze, etc.).”
Strobl described the email allowing students to designate their identities as “absolutely ridiculous” in an interview with The Daily Caller.
“Once professors print their rosters, they have the preferred pronouns of every student and are expected to use them,” Strobl said. “It could mean that professors could be disciplined for using pronouns incorrectly.”
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Your Email Address (Required) Submit and See Results Completing this poll entitles you to Daily Caller news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. The chairman of the University of Michigan chapter of Young Americans for Freedom added that the pronoun “his majesty” is superior to oddly concocted pronouns such as, say, “ze.” “I figured ‘his’ is an established pronoun and I entered ‘majesty’ — an honorific,” Strobl told TheDC. “Both words exist in the English language, unlike these invented pronouns.”
“I expect that the university will honor its commitment and refer to me as ‘his majesty,'” the junior majoring in political science and international studies said. “I expect the university to treat me the same as everyone else.”
“It’s our jobs as conservatives to keep this country sane,” Strobl also noted, adding that he believes other students “are starting to change their pronouns” in ways school officials likely failed to anticipate.
“I encourage all U-M students to go onto Wolverine Access, and insert the identity of their dreams,” he told The College Fix.
Omar Mahmood, a 2016 University of Michigan graduate currently working at USA Today, suggested that he shall henceforth be called “Mr. Grand Mufti Sir” by his alma mater.
Follow Omar Mahmood @UrduDervish My preferred pronoun is 'Mr. Grand Mufti Sir.' 1:23 PM - 28 Sep 2016 Retweets 2 2 likes A Twitter hashtag — #UMPronounChallenge — now exists to lampoon the University of Michigan’s new “designated” pronouns policy.
The email from the two high-ranking University of Michigan officials details that “Designated Pronouns will automatically populate on all class rosters accessed through Wolverine Access. Rosters pulled from other systems will not have designated pronouns listed. If a student does not designate a pronoun, none will be listed for them.” (RELATED: University Of Michigan Web Page Encourages Students To Change Their Pronouns)
“Asking about and correctly using someone’s designated pronoun is one of the most basic ways to show your respect for their identity and to cultivate an environment that respects all gender identities,” the email pontificates.
Students and professors who fail to use biologically wrong or completely made-up pronouns “can acknowledge that you made a mistake, and use the correct pronoun next time.”
The end of the email expresses gratitude to the “pronoun committee” which “worked the past year to formulate this process.”
The Gender Identity tab allows UM students to change their pronoun to whatever they wish at any time, opening up the possibility that a student could demand a new pronoun every single day.
michigan-email-via-twitter-prageru University of Michigan email via Twitter: PragerU
Guides on “proper prounoun usage” are all the rage on college campuses this academic year. Officials at schools around the country are pushing students to swap out pronouns such as he, she, him and his for gender neutral prounouns such as “ve,” “ver” and “vis.” There’s also the basic “they” as well as “thon,” “xe,” “faerself,” “hir,” “xyr” — and much else. (RELATED: Taxpayer-Funded University Instructs Students That Using The Wrong Pronouns Is ‘OPPRESSIVE’)
This fall, Vanderbilt University festooned its campus with professionally-designed posters which instruct students to use strange pronouns to refer to students and professors who refuse to admit they are either males or females. (RELATED: Overpriced Fancypants University Festoons Campus With Absurd ‘Ze, Zir, Zirs’ PRONOUN POSTERS)
And West Virginia University’s Title IX office recently warned students that referring to someone by the “wrong” gender pronoun is a violation of federal anti-discrimination law under Title IX. (RELATED: West Virginia University: Calling Someone The ‘Wrong’ Prounoun Is A Title IX Violation)
LIBs are fools. What a yuck.
I want to be “Unquestioned Overlord”
The real story, imo, is that the idiots that come up with this crap are still employed.
Reminds me of a joke in a Tim Allen movie “Jungle to Jungle”. He reconnects with a young, long lost son who has been raised by a jungle tribe. When one of the tribe elders tells Tim Allen that everyone in the tribe gets to choose their own name, Tim Allen’s character chooses “Man Who is Extremely Well Hung”, only to find out it is already taken by a smiling fellow surrounded by women.
His full title is ‘His Majesty” – Noble Ruler of the Wolverines’ LOL
He could have used the royal “We.”
Zey are nutz.
The “System” is working—Insanity is the norm for most of the brainwashed useful idiots who are incapable of being virtuous or living in Reality.
“His Majesty” understands the absurd push of the psychopathic sodomites to normalize the irrational Marxist “utopia” where Up is Down, Vice is Virtue, Girls are Boys and Slavery is Freedom.
The skools need to be obliterated and parents need to take back the formation of Virtue in their OWN children. We need a true “Justice” system-which only promotes public virtue (like Truth) and children need the system of the Natural Family BACK so children are capable of embedding Reality (Truth (God’s Design) of human beings.
Dehumanization in these artificial group-think factories has GOT TO END!!!!!! The mass indoctrination system (Common Core) is evil and destroys Agency-—exactly as the Marxist system is designed to do.
I call “Lord Humungus, ruler of the Wasteland”.
LOL...There was a guy after the Civil War in San Francisco who proclaimed himself EMPEROR NORTON THE FIRST , emperor of the United States and protector of Mexico...yeah i know not much has changed there in 150 years . He wore this outlandish outfit like Napoleon with all those badges hanging from it and would walk around San Francisco where everybody would bow down and say good day Emperor Norton...some have suggested the King character in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer is loosely based on Emperor Norton...when he died in 1880 over 10 thousand San Franciscans showed up to give him the biggest funeral in San Francisco history....it’s still the land of fruits and nuts! They drove him to the graveyard in a horse drawn glass hearse with people lining the way or following the procession.
Freegards
LEX
You already are by those of us in the know!
My Unquestioned Overlord.
I would like to be referred to as “His Most Serene”.
If it hasn’t been taken yet I’d like to be called Master of the Universe.
No pressure. It’s not like terrifying doom and despair await you if you don’t.
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