Posted on 12/12/2016 11:49:51 AM PST by drewh
Students at Oxford University have been told to use the pronoun “ze” rather than “he” or “she” to eliminate discrimination against transgender people. Guidance offered in a leaflet by the students’ union advises against using traditional pronouns, arguing that doing so suggests there are only two genders. Deliberately using the wrong pronoun for a transgendered person is an offence under the union’s code of conduct.
Peter Tatchell, an LGBT rights campaigner, has welcomed the move, telling Mail Online: “It is a positive thing to not always emphasise gender divisions and barriers.”
He said: “It is good to have gender-neutral pronouns for those who want them but it shouldn’t be compulsory.
“This issue isn’t about being politically correct or censoring anyone. It’s about acknowledging the fact of changing gender identities and respecting people’s right to not define themselves as male or female.
“Giving people the ‘ze’ option is a thoughtful, considerate move.”
Cambridge University has also indicated that it would like to follow a similar path. Sophie Buck, welfare officer of the students’ union, said: “Events start with a speaker introducing themselves using a gender neutral pronoun.
“It’s part of a drive to make the union intersectional.”
And Franky Sissons, a transgender student at King’s College at Cambridge, said: “Gender neutral pronouns are good…It should happen in lectures too.”
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How about “it”?
It sounds better in the original German.
Your papers, citizen?
BS.
Agreed. We already have a sex-neutral prounoun: “it”.
Plus, wouldn’t using “ze” be offensive to those who self-identify as French?
What's wrong with calling them "it"?
I'm just sayin'.....
Freedom of Speech doesn’t exist on college campuses. I don’t know if it exists in England at all.
Why would anyone spend a penny to attend Oxford now?
“Ze” sounds an awful lot like the formal German “Sie.” That’s going to fluster the heck out of some very uptight little Germans at Oxford. They’ve been good soldiers for Progressivism over the past several decades, of course they’ve always been good soldiers, for better or worse. Don’t want to make them cry by being too formal, which is a correction or an insult to them.
How about Thing 1 and Thing 2? Women would have to be Thing 1, of course. Can’t be second class Things, that would be sexist.
In reading the article, it doesn’t specifically say that this was directed by officials at Oxford University, but rather that it was “guidance offered in a leaflet by the students’ union advises against using traditional pronouns” ... in other words, wishful thinking by some trans-activists. The article is vague enough that I may be mistaken, but I think this isn’t something that Oxford has done.
Zat is exactly what ze homonazis would use to describe other homos...
I would start using “gfy” to the person who told me to start using “ze”.
But more seriously, what an infantile pack of absolute fracking arseholes.
Sorry, but you don’t tell me how to speak English, and you don’t get to give me punishment for not doing it your way. STFU.
I’ve used that term before.
...in a fictional story where there’s a non-sexual entity and the word ‘it’ just didn’t convey the alien nature of it in the setting quite to the extent that I wanted.
Sad thing is that the fantastic story I wrote is somehow more sane than most leftists today.
I still like Thing. Maybe a sliding scale from 0 to 2 would cover the spectrum.
Thing 0, asexual or eunuch. Thing 1, cisfemale. Thing 1.5, transgender male. Thing 2, transgender female. Chisels would be just things, they don’t deserve a place on the scale.
Ah, autocorrect. Cismales become chisels, lol. Somehow apropos.
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