Posted on 05/12/2014 5:19:30 AM PDT by massmike
Oberlin College, a smallish hothouse of leftist folly about 35 miles southwest of Cleveland, Ohio, is contemplating a complex set of rules designed to make the athletic department more hospitable for transgender people.
The new rules would mandate transgender sensitivity training for all coaches and athletic staff members, reports Campus Reform.
In addition, the new policy would replace all gender-specific pronouns – she, her, hers, he, her, hers – with plural equivalents they, them and theirs.
Student-athletes don’t have to attend the required training sessions, but they would be “strongly encouraged.”
The policy is expected to be implemented in the fall of 2015, according to Oberlin’s student newspaper.
“It is basically intended to sort of be a 101,” Oberlin junior Emily Clarke, a member of the longwinded committee, told Campus Reform. “We also talk about choice, privilege and agency in presentation of gender and pronouns and ends with trans-allyship dos and don’ts.”
By the way, Clarke was once a member of the Oberlin Rhinos, the rugby team on campus for women and trans-inclusive people.
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that is stupidly insanely stupid
Got it.
She/they/it must be a communications major.
We are FIRST human beings. THEN we are male/female.
Gender is VERY much a part of who we are.
Too bad some folks simply can't get over it.
Well yeah, but that's Oberlin.
Time to break out the thees and thous to really confuse ‘em!
They would be better off discouraging the use of First Person pronouns
I, Me, My, Mine
Training one in this would go a long way toward
Reminding each to love thy neighbor as thyself
That this world is not all about Me
IT SHOOTS IT SCORES!
And amazingly... people spend huge amounts of money to send their college-age kids there.
Oberlin, but not only Oberlin. But still, Oberlin.
Sex should never trump gender!/s
That you are free to use only words that have been approved by the free-speech committee?
I wouldn’t send my child to be brainwashed at Oberlin even if it was free. My kids can go to any top-tier college (MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or a few special cases depending on major) in a major with excellent job prospects, or they can go to any college with in-state tuition in a major with excellent job prospects, or they can pay their own way. I won’t pay $50k plus a year for a boutique school where they don’t get my money’s worth, nor will I pay for a degree in Gender Studies, African American Studies, or any other nonsense field.
This committe, Mr. Unum, is about safety. Its the “Committee For Public Safety” and I believe its chair is none other than Robespierre.
The problem though with this iteration of the French Revolution is that its also run by pacifists.....
At least I hope so....
This committe, Mr. Unum, is about safety. Its the “Committee For Public Safety” and I believe its chair is none other than Robespierre.
The problem though with this iteration of the French Revolution is that its also run by pacifists.....
At least I hope so....
When I was doing my graduate studies 5 years ago, I took a course where our professor specifically required that we use gender-neutral pronouns, and if we used gender-specific pronouns, we would be docked points.
It was the most ridiculous exercise in which I’d ever taken part. It was as easy as doing a Find/Replace for he/she/his/hers, etc. That didn’t matter, though. Her requirement was such that I wasn’t going to risk my studies because of her “gender queer” predilections.
I second the motion!
$60k a year to learn bad grammar and perversity ;-)
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