UMich to profs: don't say ‘ladies and gentlemen,’ ‘mom and dad’

Campus Reform ^ | November 10, 2016 | Amber Athey

[GuavaCheesePuff]

The University of Michigan recently released a guide for creating gender-inclusive classrooms, advising professors to avoid “harmful” phrases like “ladies and gentlemen” and “your mom and dad.”

The guide was released October 26 by the UMich Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT), which says its mission is to “promote excellence and innovation in teaching in all 19 schools and colleges at the University of Michigan.”

[GuavaCheesePuff]

They don’t get it. They are really out of touch.

[A_Former_Democrat]

FIRE any bas**** associated with this

What a waste of time, money and air. Get rid of idiots like this.

[HerrBlucher]

I guess "Parental Units" works for mom and dad.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

I don’t understand who hires these students.

[dfwgator]

“Sperm Donor” and “Sperm Receptacle”.

[Jeff Chandler]

THIS IS WHY TRUMP WAS ELECTED

[KarlInOhio]

The guide warns that professors should also avoid phrases that “reinforce heteronormative assumptions,” like saying “your mom and dad” when referring to someone’s parents.

Even the Menendez siblings can see your microaggression against orphans is harmful. Turn in your sensitive liberal card.

[ConservativeStatement]

Trying to out-Northwestern Northwestern?

[WayneS]

This “university” should close its doors. There is no hope for it.

[Secret Agent Man]

Just say you reject their redefining the word “HARMFUL”. And actually find it offensive by abusing the term. They are like the awful people that have the handicap car hanger signs that are really totally healthy and not disabled at all. They are as bad as the hate crime fakers.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Yes, yes. These liberal pansies don’t get it. They don’t.

[Jamestown1630]

“They” may not get it; but someone does exactly, and is intimidating these administrators into the ‘program’.

They want to push any truly intelligent, sensible Prof., and his/her influence, OUT.

[ErikJohnsky]

Ending this crap is what Donald J Trump is all about.

[seawolf101]

These morons have been very lucky. I would like to see how they feel when the Muslims start beheading their loved ones.

[sport]

I believe that they won’t really care. They will just think,”What did they[relatives] do to them to cause them [muslims] to hate them”.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is why all the Nazi freaks are out in the steets tonight. The “Educated”/Low Intelligence Snowflakes. They’re all clueless.

[PAR35]

to avoid “harmful” phrases like “ladies and gentlemen”

Well, if there are no ladies on campus, I can understand why the phrase should be avoided. Probably not many real men, either.

[AZLiberty]

The guide warns that professors should also avoid phrases that “reinforce heteronormative assumptions,” like saying “your mom and dad” when referring to someone’s parents.

Hetero is the norm, otherwise the human race would have died out long ago. Hence, "heteronormative" is a description of REALITY.

[MoochPooch]

And they wonder why everyone voted for Trump.