This is redefining RIDICULOUS!
“VCU refers to the “gender binary” as “the socially constructed idea that all people identify as either male or female,” insisting that the concept doesn’t account for identities between those two statuses. The university states that “gender spectrum,” a continuum of possible gender identifications, “replaces the gender binary.”
“Homosexual” is “a bit of an outdated term,” says the VCU handout, and “same gender loving” is the African American variant of “gay,” “lesbian,” or “bisexual.”
A “demisexual,” the handout continues, is “a person who is not immediately sexually attracted to other people. A person who’s [sic] sexual attraction to another person develops after developing a relationship (not necessarily romantic). Often considered within the asexuality spectrum.”
“The university conveniently provides a “sexuality spectrum” — including a “pansexual” classification — on another page of the handout. The “gender identity spectrum” even delineates “genderqueer” and “agendered” for students.”
“VCU defines “pansexual” as “someone who is sexually and emotionally attracted to people regardless of their gender” and “genderqueer” as “a rejection of the gender binary (male/female) in favor of a more fluid, nontraditional identity.”
“According to the university’s literature, “polyamorous” signifies “a consensual and ethical relationship between three or more people that involves both physical and emotional intimacy between all members of the relationship.”
“VCU is not alone in its push to sanitize langue and impose “identity”-based vernacular on students. Other schools around the country have released similar manuals. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln encourages students to “interrupt/stop heterosexist behavior,” “not support jokes that degrade any group of people,” and “display a Safe Space or Ally card and explain their purpose or importance to those who ask.”
“Similarly, the University of North Carolina published and then retracted microaggression guidelines last June, which declared that statements such as, “I don’t know any LGBTQ people,” constituted microaggressions.”
I’m waiting for ‘polyphobic’.
Or maybe that should be ‘polynonphobic’.