Well I just Experienced a Weird SJW Thing

Bad Wigins wrote:

overeducated and not via TED talks wrote:

I feel neither superior nor inferior to him/her. Of course I harbor generalized feelings of superiority; most people do. Mine are usually sparked when someone sneers at educational attainment. Yes, I’m an intellectual snob.

To be an intellectual snob, you have to be an intellectual. You're at best an educated snob.

An intellectual with two doctorates would be talking about their career achievements, not their schooling. You haven't mentioned anything of note, so you're actually a failure. Two different departments wasted years of time and resources on you instead of training someone else who might have amounted to something.

Ouch.

Conservative Triggers are funny. They cause a mouth frothing anger and a frenzy of social media posts. However, a true conservative is a live and let live type of person. Let others alone and be left alone as long as no harm is done to others.

Accounting for Egogender there are over 7.7 billion genders.

SomeThings wrote:

It sounds like you aren't a very open minded individual. At my current university as well as my previous institution, people can choose what they put in their email signature or faculty pages. Some people put a preferred pronoun, others don't.

You are overreacting -- this is likely not mandated by the university and they are not "wasting" loads of money on it. Rather, forward thinking individuals are making a personal choice.

On a practical level, this can be helpful because names can be ambiguous - I've misgendered emails before. But more importantly, doing this shows inclusivity and respect for individuals who don't fit into the mainstream gender bianary, and shows they can be comfortable using/sharing the pronouns they prefer.

I largely agree with this. Additionally, there is a pretty distinct difference between something being culturally or ideologically subversive and it being unnecessary to a degree. Since there isn't any element of compulsion here and it reads mainly as a courtesy, I don't think this is necessarily an "SJW" issue - a personal choice is not indicative of social warfare so long as there is no attempt to force the same choice on others or disparage them for choosing differently.

At the end he calculated the possible number of genders to be 1,392,245,379,452,739,361 based on a world population of 7.4 million people.

According to the video that is 13,922,453 times the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

People should just play along with this trend and take it to logical/illogical extremes so that it can't gain any serious traction.

Insist on the fact that you self-identify as an electric toaster and would like to be addressed by the impersonal pronouns "It", "Its" "That" and "That's". Then complain that everyone's objectifying you.

"He, him, his" indicates inclusion?

Isn't there a gender missing?

Rather, forward thinking individuals are making a personal choice.

No they're not. They're asserting a point of leftist ideology that someone could choose a pronoun incorrect for their actual gender and be justified in taking offense if one refuses or omits to indulge them. Putting that in your email signature is another form of SJW language bullying and thought policing. It's offensive and creepy to imply that there would ever be anything wrong with calling a thing what it actually is.

Dick Van Dyke wrote:

My pronouns are: He, Him, His

Very common in Canadian universities (at least in social sciences and arts), as well as the NGO and social service worlds.

I'm Pro Noun wrote:

People should just play along with this trend and take it to logical/illogical extremes so that it can't gain any serious traction.

Insist on the fact that you self-identify as an electric toaster and would like to be addressed by the impersonal pronouns "It", "Its" "That" and "That's". Then complain that everyone's objectifying you.

Wow, it sounds like the RWNJs are getting triggered!

Chief Justice Kavanaugh wrote:

Rather, forward thinking individuals are making a personal choice.

No they're not. They're asserting a point of leftist ideology that someone could choose a pronoun incorrect for their actual gender and be justified in taking offense if one refuses or omits to indulge them. Putting that in your email signature is another form of SJW language bullying and thought policing. It's offensive and creepy to imply that there would ever be anything wrong with calling a thing what it actually is.

Yikes. Talk about getting triggered.

You are making up all sorts of mind-reading guesses about others' motivation, based on your own fragile insecurities. Good luck!

[quoscte]WTFF!! wrote:

srths wrote:

PhD's know a lot about a subject (that anyone can learn on their (his, her or other) own but in my experience they don't reach correct conclusions.

You do realize that PhDs contribute new info to their academic focus right? Which is how we evolve as a society right? Even if it is the wrong conclusion at least it is advancing the space.You also realize they go through months of academic peer review to get it right, right![/quote]

You do realize that people who repeatedly start sentences with “you do realize” are arrogant asshats, right?

Not inclusive wrote:

"He, him, his" indicates inclusion?

Isn't there a gender missing?

Jamin only has one pronoun: It

..your own fragile insecurities...

SJWs are bullies. No substance, just ad hominem insinuations about my supposed insecurities about men who want to be called "she." But what would there be to be insecure about if it's totally normal and fabulous? You're admitting that there is something shameful about it to attack me but then you'll switch back to calling it something to be proud of ("pride") when that suits your purposes.

Dick Van Dyke wrote:

I've been sheltered in the working world from all this SJW stuff but in an inquiry about my PhD application this winter the grad person had this at the bottom of their email under their contact info:

My pronouns are: He, Him, His

Are schools and people in general really doing this on email taglines, is this a thing?! There's actually inclusion departments now? Universities are wasting money on hiring people large sums of money to deal with "inclusion"? I'm all for having a diversity and ethnic culture department but inclusion reallllyyy?

I'm confused. Why would this person write this?

Is this a female identifying as a male?

Or a male that wants everyone to know he's a male, because there may be some question?

I'm lost.

Chief Justice Kavanaugh wrote:

..your own fragile insecurities...

SJWs are bullies. No substance, just ad hominem insinuations about my supposed insecurities about men who want to be called "she."

This is correct.

It's not forward thinking, it's hipper than thou virtue signaling. Our society is spending way, way, way too much energy on the transgender issue. It's just like peanut allergies 20 years ago, or gluten sensitivity a decade ago. A miniscule fraction of the population suffer from these afflictions--but then a whole bunch of the 10-20 percent of the population that instead suffer from hypochondria latch onto these sexy new problems, and here we are--a perceived public health crisis.

SomeThings wrote:

It sounds like you aren't a very open minded individual. At my current university as well as my previous institution, people can choose what they put in their email signature or faculty pages. Some people put a preferred pronoun, others don't.

You are overreacting -- this is likely not mandated by the university and they are not "wasting" loads of money on it. Rather, forward thinking individuals are making a personal choice.

On a practical level, this can be helpful because names can be ambiguous - I've misgendered emails before. But more importantly, doing this shows inclusivity and respect for individuals who don't fit into the mainstream gender bianary, and shows they can be comfortable using/sharing the pronouns they prefer.

For a while I didnt like the whole "use the pronoun of my choice" stuff. But some explained it to me like this: "you are a cis-gendered guy and people refer to you as 'he/him.' What if instead they always referred to you as a 'she/her. '" It would probably annoy me.

Most people who prefer pronouns that don't match normal convention wont get angry if you accidentally use their non-preferred pronoun, as long as you aren't doing it to be a jerk. A friend of mine prefers "they/them". I try and be conscious, but when I slip up they have never made a big deal about it. The fact that you even try can mean a lot.

People who prefer different pronouns than you expect and probably going to have a tough time in life. Its the compassionate and caring thing to make the TINY bit of effort to make them feel more welcome? Also, for you religious people, something tells me Jesus wouldn't hate on someone for their gender/sexual orientation/whatever.