UPDATE: Rickey Hall, the vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, said their quest for gender neutral pronouns is not an official university policy.
“It’s not policy,” he said. “It’s about inclusive practice.”
Hall told me the gender neutral pronouns were a way of “exposing our students (to an) increasingly diverse and global world.”
He said gender neutral pronoun usage is not new – and that as things change – people always have questions. Nevertheless, he stressed this is not a mandated university policy.
For all you folks who went to school back when there were only him and her – here’s a primer: some of the new gender neutral pronouns are ze, hir, zir, xe, xem and xyr.
“I reiterate, it’s not a mandate, it’s not an official policy, it’s not a policy from the board,” he told me. “It’s about education. We are (a) higher education institution and exposing our students to a lot of different things.”
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So, in other words, lies and imagination,
ReplyDeleteOkay, right.
What's the next step, purge the Romance languages of feminine and masculine nouns and pronouns? Those who speak Italian, French, Portuguese and Spanish might have something to say about that.
ReplyDeleteIDIOTS!
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This is just over the top, STUPID!!! Just because some people want to be a she because he is a he, and some people want to be a he because she is a she, we can't refer to people as Mr./Miss/he/she/alien/etc. PC gone awry.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, 'morons' is a gender-neutral term. It certainly does apply to this article.
ReplyDeleteIDIOTS, one and all!!
ReplyDeleteWhy aren't these individuals named and targeted.
ReplyDeleteI have no problem calling Obama 'ze".
ReplyDeleteHere we are, moving ever closer to calling everyone "comrade".
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