Posted on 09/03/2015 4:54:39 PM PDT by markomalley
Gender-neutral pronouns have hit Harvard.
“The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ registration tool now gives students the option to choose preferred gender pronouns for the first time,” The Harvard Crimson campus newspaper reports.
On the page that typically asks students to write down their gender marker—examples of which include “male,” “female,” and “transgender”—they could also manually write in preferred gender pronouns when they registered this week. Examples on the page included “ze, hir, hirs” and “they, them, theirs.”
FAS Registrar Michael P. Burke said the change, which administrators have discussed for a number of years, was intended to “make students feel more comfortable with their gender identity” at Harvard and ease students’ relationships with faculty and advisers, some of whom will be able to see their pronoun information.
The news follows on the heels of the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s controversial request to the campus community to use “gender-neutral pronouns” such as “ze, xe, xem, xyr, zirs and hirs.”
Read the full Crimson article.
LOL
From the article in The Crimson: "FAS Registrar Michael P. Burke said the change, which administrators have discussed for a number of years..."
Most of the real rot in academe (leaving aside what happens in departments and programs with names of the form [Affirmative-action-beneficiary-group] Studies) comes not from the professoriate, but from the administrative superstructure.
“It won’t last that long”.
That’s right.
Actually this is good because even the stupid can see this is stupid and they will laugh it off.
...(It)...comes not from the professoriate, but from the administrative superstructure....
So, they are the ones passing the pipe around.
So it would seem.
Must not be English majors.
These edicts are coming from a central source. I wonder who it is.
This is extreme faggotry.
This kind of crap is one of the reasons why they can’t find jobs when they get out of “college”. Who the hell wants to hire a full ‘o ****, moronic jughead?
I would demand my gender pronoun be Your Majesty. Or if the school insists on a single word, then simply Majesty.
It’s time to mau mau the flak catchers to quote Tom Wolfe.
Do you mean to tell me that they don’t speak esperanto?
For someone who does not wish to be thought of as male or female, we have a perfectly good English pronoun: “It”
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