Posted on 02/19/2020 4:46:57 AM PST by karpov
For generations of future diplomats and cabinet officials educated at Harvard’s renowned John F. Kennedy School of Government, orientation day has come with a name placard that the students carry from class to class, so their professors can easily call on them.
When Diego Garcia Blum, 30, got his placard last fall, the first-year graduate student immediately took a Sharpie to it, writing “He/Him” next to the big block letters of his name. Other students did the same thing, writing “She/Her” and “They/Them.”
“Yup! Day 1,” Mr. Garcia Blum, recalled, adding, “That’s when I thought, the students are ahead of the school.”
But despite its reputation as a bastion of the establishment, the Kennedy School followed the students’ lead, agreeing to provide clear plastic stickers this semester with four pronoun options that students could apply to their name cards: “He/Him,” “She/Her,” “They/Them” and “Ze/Hir.”
“I think it’s valuable, generally speaking, to challenge the norm that you can assume a person’s gender based on appearances,” said Raven Graf, 25, a nonbinary student at Kennedy whose pronouns are they/them.
As young people who have grown up with a more expansive concept of gender identity bring those ideas to college classrooms, universities have responded in varying ways, with some professors and schools quickly accommodating a wider range of gender pronouns, and others struggling over whether and how to institute new policies.
Last week New York University said students would now be able to indicate their pronouns in the system that provides class rosters and seating charts to faculty members. At least 39 other schools allow students to indicate their pronouns on course rosters, according to a national clearinghouse maintained by the director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Stonewall Center.
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Even the NYT commenters call BS on this article.
A smart kid will write “boss” after their name....because they’re the one who is going to be hired.
Use whatever pronoun you wish for yourself, but do not dare to tell me what pronouns I must use in referring to you. I will use the proper ones that match your actual sex. Your freedom of speech does not trump mine!
When I was a kid all power struggles in the classroom were ended with a well thrown chalk eraser to the head.
I was watching an interview of an Eastern European woman who had lived under the Nazis and the Soviets. She said she preferred living under the Nazis. The Nazis would tell you the rules and if you obeyed them, they left you alone. The Soviets actually wanted you to “think” the correct thoughts. If they believed you didn’t they would punish you.
The universities are Soviet “think tanks.”
I recall the dad of one of my friends back in high school once told me that in his school days (some time in the 1950s), he had a teacher that if you made him angry, he’d get a couple of large books from his shelf and make you hold or balance them in your hands and you were not to let them fall or drop. The weight of them would nearly have you in tears after a while of trying to not drop them or let them fall.
The universities need to implement digital technology with these nameplates so each person can type in the exact words for how they should be addressed.
Anyone who speaks to me must call me “His Royal Highness”.
Otherwise I will be deeply offended and send a team of lawyers after them!
Wurd Nazis are corrupting language.
The feminazis want to subvert American civilization.
Are other countries doing this they/zi bullstalin?
Harvard sends the First Amendment, in addition to standard English grammar, into the toilet, and the students, parents, and taxpayers pay for this travesty.
Billions in endowments, they could give away the degrees without going bust.
LOL, I went to schools where they could still paddle you with the equivalent of a cricket bat, pull your hair or ear, or whack you with a ruler!
I even had one great shop teacher put my hand in a large vise when he caught me squishing fountain pen cartridges in it! (I richly deserved that)
Homofascists and feminazis never wanted equality, they want supremacy.
Come to a job interview with this old Boomer, use this pronoun Schiff, and you’ll find yourself kicked out on your butt. If you sneak by, get a job and pull this gender crap then your butt is fired. Let’s see how that great liberal education really helps when you can’t get or hold a job.
Absolutely Nuts
Just refer to them as “Not sure”
Exhibit A for a society that has lost its mind.
The rift between Western Judeo-Christian culture and secular socialist culture is widening. In another generation these cultures will be so distinct they won’t recognize each other. There will be NO common ground. However, the West must prevail.
Recall that Clinton tried to kill language by ‘recognizing’ ebonics as a valid dialect of English. That idea got shot down.
The Left lights a thousand dumpster fires every day to cause chaos.
Homofascists are proudly antiChristian. Their hate God, your faith, your text, and Jesus.
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