The liberal mind is fascinating. At the University of California system, they've INCREASED the number of genders to six, adding things like 'trans male.' (Wouldn't a trans 'male' want to be known as just a male?) The libs in Tennessee do the opposite. I guess there are many ways to reject reality.
Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:
The liberal mind is fascinating. At the University of California system, they've INCREASED the number of genders to six, adding things like 'trans male.' (Wouldn't a trans 'male' want to be known as just a male?) The libs in Tennessee do the opposite. I guess there are many ways to reject reality.
Technically this is leftist, not liberal, but it is insane. I'm a lifelong Democrat and this insanity is pushing me towards the other extreme.
Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:
I guess there are many ways to reject reality.
Hermaphrodites are very real.
Yes, intersex/hermaphrodite is a real condition but it affects only
I've lived too long wrote:
Yes, intersex/hermaphrodite is a real condition but it affects only
Yes, intersex is a real condition but it affects less than 1 in 1,500. Harming the majority to possibly make life more comfortable for an extreme minority is asinine.
who's rejecting reality? wrote:
Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:I guess there are many ways to reject reality.
Hermaphrodites are very real.
Great, so let's use the 'ze' pronoun for this 00.07% of the population, or 'he,' or 'she,' or whatever they tell us to use, without interrupting the other 99.93%.
who's rejecting reality? wrote:
Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:I guess there are many ways to reject reality.
Hermaphrodites are very real.
Of course hermaphrodites are real. But you don't ask a very large group of people to disassociate from their own gender on the slight chance they might encounter a hermaphrodite or transgendered person and accidentally offend them.
For years, men named Marion, Tracy and Jamie have gotten phone calls from strangers asking for "Mrs. Such and Such." They seemed to get over it.
You will never be able to create a perfect world in which no one will be offended. I'm not talking about being harassed or discriminated against. I'm talking about unintentionally offending someone, as in mistaking a woman for a man. Even the most average sort of person isn't safe from being offended once in awhile. If your expectation in life is to be without insult or embarrassment, you're going to be chronically disappointed.
Even the Onion would think that's to stupid to publish. Higher Ed has no problem with pushing insanity on us all.
Got cut off wrote:Harming the majority to possibly make life more comfortable for an extreme minority is asinine.
How does asking what a person prefers to be called "harm the majority"? Seems like a minor inconvenience at most.
It's just a suggestion by the university so they can be inclusive of a very small small but existent minority group. Absolutely no one of traditional gender pronouns is harmed by this suggestion nor do they face consequences of not heeding to the university's advice. What is the uproar here?
Thank you. You speak the truth. Everybody seems to WANT to be offended and in order to have a complaint. That is part of the problem.
FitzyXC wrote:
Got cut off wrote:Harming the majority to possibly make life more comfortable for an extreme minority is asinine.How does asking what a person prefers to be called "harm the majority"? Seems like a minor inconvenience at most.
Asking someone what they are implies that their gender cannot be determined. This is insulting to most people.
Yes this is insanity. The chickens are coming home to roost. It's one thing to destigmatize transgender people. It's another to reinvent the English language in an effort to make them feel good about themselves.
At bare minimum, I wish that Donna Braquet, the person who wrote up this manifesto, could actually write the English language. Perhaps somebody in the UT writing center can scan this sentence, which I've copied and pasted from the UT webpage:
"Transgender people and people who do not identity within the gender binary may use a different name than their legal name and pronouns of their gender identity, rather than the pronouns of the sex they were assigned at birth."
Obviously the word "identity" should be "identify." That's just a simple misspelling--unfortunate, but s--t happens. The rest of it is a trainwreck--and I must apologize in advance to train-lover, since I'm not trying to slur your love-object. But really. This is silly.
Here's the best take on it I've heard:
Randall1877 wrote:
Educators in the Volunteer State are very concerned that students might be offended by the usage of traditional pronouns like she, he, him and hers, according to a document from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
“With the new semester beginning and an influx of new students on campus, it is important to participate in making our campus welcoming and inclusive for all,” wrote Donna Braquet in a posting on the university’s website. “One way to do that is to use a student’s chosen name and their correct pronouns.”
Braquet, who is director of the university’s Pride Center, suggested using a variety of gender neutral pronouns instead of traditional pronouns.
For all you folks who went to school back when there were only him and her – here’s a primer: some of the new gender neutral pronouns are ze, hir, zir, xe, xem and xyr.
“There are dozens of gender-neutral pronouns,” she declared.
For all you folks who went to school back when there were only him and her – here’s a primer: some of the new gender neutral pronouns are ze, hir, zir, xe, xem and xyr.
“These may sound a little funny at first, but only because they are new,” Braquet explained. “The ‘she’ and ‘he’ pronouns would sound strange too if we had been taught ‘ze’ when growing up.”
While some educators applaud this as a bold initiative, others say it is not enough. David Stallworth of the Americans with Disabilities Foundation says “Spoken language in any form is a barrier to the cognitively challenged. The inability to formulate and articulate complete thoughts has barred many Americans from the professional advancement they deserve. Language on its face discriminates against the poor and uneducated, which disproportionately breaks across race lines.”
True equality, according to Stallworth, is the abolition of written and spoken language in favor of hand gestures. “It is really quite simple,” Stallworth demonstrated. “The issue of gender-appropriate pronouns ceases to matter when I point at you; ‘you’ is defined by whatever ethno-gender identity you espouse at the moment. If I sweep my gesture across many people I infer a collective ‘you all’ that maintains its individual gender sensitivity.”
Detractors of the gesture-based language plan, which has no spoken name, argue that even this is discriminatory. Ruth Pennington, Professor Emeritus in the Birmingdale State University College of Empathy program, claims that the inability of the limbless, or those who suffer debilitating neurological conditions to include paralysis, are traumatized by the constant reminder that others have arms with which to gesture. “It was bad enough when we had spoken language and hand gestures were added only for emphasis; but with this new approach the paralyzed are barred from conversation altogether. Dwarves, midgets and other Persons Without Height are further compromised by the perception that they cannot ‘speak loudly enough’ when using broad-motion gestures.
“The answer is clear,” Pennington states, “there is nothing that can be said in any form of communication that will not offend somebody. The only way to protect the most fragile and incapable among us is to quit talking altogether.”
That should be "lovers," not "lover."
Blame xem, not moi.
Here's a good column by Jonathan Turley. Make sure to read the comments section.
I used to call myself a progressive, but I'm suddenly starting to develop a reactionary itch.
Let's share some videos. These are perfectly nice and very smart millennials. Brave new world, that has such xems living in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB-SRBuBrOI
He is traditionally considered a male pronoun.
She is traditionally considered a female pronoun.
This guy/gal/person lost me on "xe / xem / xyr"
It's hard to feel all soft and cuddly, or strongly testosteronish, about such language. But I appreciate the sentiment. We all want love, and hope that people will love us for who we are.
When I was a young person and longing for love, however, I didn't have the luxury of making YouTube videos in which I told the world precisely how to pronounce my name, which was Narcissus.
Here's the link for Turley:
Now this person is....cool. I'm inclined to give this dude/girl the benefit of the doubt in a big way. No whining. Very nice.
Watch this video and reconsider your sneers. I could actually be convinced to use "xem" and "hir" after watching this, although I'd still be pretty bad at pronouncing them.
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these