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Oxford Students Told to Use ‘Ze’ Instead of ‘He’ or ‘She’ (microagression against trannies)
Breitbart ^
| 12 Dec 2016
| Donna Rachel Edmunds
Posted on 12/12/2016 11:49:51 AM PST by drewh
Students at Oxford University have been told to use the pronoun ze rather than he or she to eliminate discrimination against transgender people. Guidance offered in a leaflet by the students union advises against using traditional pronouns, arguing that doing so suggests there are only two genders. Deliberately using the wrong pronoun for a transgendered person is an offence under the unions code of conduct.
Peter Tatchell, an LGBT rights campaigner, has welcomed the move, telling Mail Online: It is a positive thing to not always emphasise gender divisions and barriers.
He said: It is good to have gender-neutral pronouns for those who want them but it shouldnt be compulsory.
This issue isnt about being politically correct or censoring anyone. Its about acknowledging the fact of changing gender identities and respecting peoples right to not define themselves as male or female.
Giving people the ze option is a thoughtful, considerate move.
Cambridge University has also indicated that it would like to follow a similar path. Sophie Buck, welfare officer of the students union, said: Events start with a speaker introducing themselves using a gender neutral pronoun.
Its part of a drive to make the union intersectional.
And Franky Sissons, a transgender student at Kings College at Cambridge, said: Gender neutral pronouns are good
It should happen in lectures too.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: education; homosexualagenda; oxford
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To: katana
But more seriously, what an infantile pack of absolute fracking arseholes.
You have just provided a succinct description of Social Justice Warriors.
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posted on
12/12/2016 2:42:08 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Chode
Thank you so much for that chart. I've been wandering around in the desert for years wondering what I am.
AT LAST- the answer:
Wow, a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I feeeeeel so much better.
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posted on
12/12/2016 2:42:58 PM PST
by
upchuck
(Obama once thought that he belonged to the ages. Now he belongs in the rubbish bin. h/t D.Greenfield)
To: drewh
Ze man is wearing ze woman’s cloths.
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posted on
12/12/2016 2:43:06 PM PST
by
meyer
(There is no political solution to this troubling evolution...)
To: drewh
Is ze really a surgeon general?
To: metmom
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posted on
12/12/2016 3:06:00 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Stopthethreat
That looks more like a sturgeon general!
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posted on
12/12/2016 3:07:19 PM PST
by
Reily
To: NorthMountain
LOL!!! here ya go...
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posted on
12/12/2016 3:13:52 PM PST
by
Chode
(You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
To: Reily
No. Ze really is surgeon general of Pennsylvania. Zis (or is it it Zer?) name is Dr. Rachel Levine.
To: drewh
That could get confusing.
Do foreign students who can't pronounce "th" have to avoid the definite article from now on?
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posted on
12/12/2016 3:15:15 PM PST
by
x
To: upchuck
glad i could have been of service... your bill is in the mail. 8^)
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posted on
12/12/2016 3:15:25 PM PST
by
Chode
(You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
To: clintonh8r
French nouns are all assigned a gender (le=masculine la=feminine) Will the French have to rewrite the language to include transgender articles like ze and za?
To: Chode
P Channel ...
Now I can put down the play-doh and come out of my safe space ...
To: drewh
Did they consider the possessive and objective. Would that be zis and zers, and zim and zer.
And what about the plurals? Would that be zey, ziers, and zem.
How about just using it, or would they make that zitand zits?
Zey should go fk zemselves!
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posted on
12/12/2016 3:30:13 PM PST
by
foxfield
(Support the Tea Party. The Tea Party supports you.)
To: drewh
This issue isnt about being politically correct or censoring anyone. On the contrary, it has absolutely no point whatever outside of being politically correct and censoring people.
To: Candor7
Sie sind ein idiot as against du bist ein idiot.
I get it.
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posted on
12/12/2016 4:00:36 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum)
To: clintonh8r
To: Candor7
He passed the idiot test:
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posted on
12/12/2016 4:16:03 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum)
To: drewh
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posted on
12/12/2016 4:17:31 PM PST
by
Brown Deer
(Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
To: NorthMountain
heh heh heh heh...
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posted on
12/12/2016 4:19:55 PM PST
by
Chode
(You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
To: drewh
80
posted on
12/12/2016 4:38:58 PM PST
by
Reynoldo
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