Posted on 10/22/2016 8:49:19 AM PDT by rickmichaels
California State University Fullerton listed dozens of words as “inappropriate” because they’re too gendered, including “secretary,” “workmanship,” and “man-made.”
The list is part of an Inclusive Language Program, which several other universities have also adopted.
CSU-Fullerton asked students to suggest what words and phrases “you want people to eliminate.”
Princeton recently backpedaled after putting out a similarly restrictive “inclusive language” guide.
“Secretary” is an exclusive word that’s inappropriate to use, California State University Fullerton told students on a handout about gender-inclusive language. Instead, use “administrative assistant,” the guide said.
Also off-limits: “Mankind,” “man the desk/phones/tables,” “hey guys,” “man-made,” “workmanship,” “hey, dudes!” and “the common man.” And don’t even think about using “man” or calling someone “Mrs. or Miss,” or more than a dozen other words and phrases.
Wait till they get out in the REAL world! They will be running for their “SAFE SPACE” crying...MOMMEE!
Newspeak.
Orwell was so right.
Not a STEM department?
Not college level, period.
Liberals, however, do need college “degrees”.
Even if they come on cereal box tops.
That college is one among many that has become a joke.
Why not ban wo-man, fe-male?????? Anyone else notice lately a lot of web articles confuse his/hers and he/she? I was reading an article about a traditional male/female bridal couple and there was a sentence that read “the bride and his fiance” and from other info it appeared the sentence should have been the “the bride and her fiance.”
So there’s no more “man-made global warming”!
Awesome!
Just say NO to University Fascism.
Sounds great to me.
'Donald Trump is running against former Administrative Assistant of State Hillary Clinton.'
Too gendered? What the heck?
My Alma Mater has gone ‘round the twist, I’m afraid.
To be fair, Fullerton has a point here! Words can be hurtful!
So I suggest completely moving to some sort of base 2 language.
0 could be “hello”. 1 could be “goodbye”, 10 could be “shut up you Fullerton morons”, etc. Would that satisfy the social justice crowd?
WTF is wrong with this country? Seriously.
Always makes me think of when Ted Turner demanded everyone on his CNN/TBS empire refrain from using the word “foreign” since it implied “something not from here” and we were all “people of the world”. It was suggested to replace the word with “international”.
So the late Skip Caray was calling a Braves game and when the umpire was examining the pitcher to see if he was using anything illegal to doctor the baseballs, Caray said the umpire was checking for any “international substances”.
I am male and I am the Secretary of a nonprofit. It is a legal requirement in our state. I sign documents as Secretary. Hillary was Secretary of state. How do you eliminate Secretary?
IDIOT!!!
C’mon man
“WTF is wrong with this country? Seriously.”
Following the yellow brick road and waiting for the Wizard of Oz.
WTF is wrong with this country? Seriously.
To nurse means to suckle. It then came to mean something like to care for a child with a distinction between “wet nurse” (suckling a child) and “dry nurse” (otherwise care for a child). The word then was adapted to mean to care for the sick. Presumably these were females caring for he sick, hence “male nurse” for the unusual case of a male caring for the sic. While there were gender roles in the origins of the word nurse, meaning to care for the sick, the word today should be understood to be gender neutral. By the same reasoning, we shouldn’t say Senatrix but just say Senator. We shouldn’t say foreperson but just say foreman. We should be post-feminist as well as post-racial, meaning, we should just get over it.
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I realize this is a college and there for the idea of the U.S. Constitution may be a strange concept. That said they could KMA telling me I can not say the words man or mankind.
There exist two sexes and no amount of their pc whining changes that.
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