gender-pronouns

Personally, I think they xe are going too far with this.

Via Washington Examiner:

In the boldest endorsement of a growing national trend, the University of Tennessee is urging incoming students and teachers to junk references to “he,” “she,” and “them,” in favor of gender-neutral “ze” and “xe.”

“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. One way to do that is to use a student’s chosen name and their correct pronouns,” blogged Donna Braquet, director of the school’s Pride Center.

“We should not assume someone’s gender by their appearance, nor by what is listed on a roster or in student information systems. Transgender people and people who do not identify 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,” ze wrote….

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  1. midget says:

    I am in so much trouble because I don’t know how to pronounce xe.

  2. dennisl59 says:

    Here’s the link to the “Pride Center”:

    http://pridecenter.utk.edu/

    “The Pride Center works to provide a safe and welcoming environment for UT’s diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, and asexual communities”.

    posted 9/1 1041am Texas[Orwell Lives!] Time

  3. Alain41 says:

    The UT pronunciation chart above says that both ze and xe are pronounced zhee. Web resources say that ze is zee and xe is zhee. Pres. Xi Jinping of China, Xi is pronounced shee. So, Xi is shee and ze is zee and xe is zhee when in Tennessee. Zee Germans!

    (Zee Germans is urban dictionary for stupid.)

  4. hbmuzik says:

    This is my alma mater!!!!!
    I got an alumni newsletter in the mail yesterday and I threw it in the trash. Disgusting.

  5. strider says:

    Talking about other people must be big among academics.

  6. Maynard says:

    We’ve got ISIS cutting off our heads, and our own leaders cutting off our balls. God help us.

  7. Perhaps they should just start using Pig-Latin…

  8. Vintageport says:

    All together TAMs: “Ol’ Rockze Top, Rockze Top Tennexxe”

  9. MACVEL says:

    This is utter nonsense and we must stop THEM!

  10. Vintageport says:

    Macvel…”THEM”…would that be the masculine or feminine “THEM”…? or the androgenous?

  11. Dave says:

    I am surprised this crap is going on in Tennessee. I would have expected it in Berkeley, Boulder, Harvard, Yale, or Eugene. Not a southern state. We are in dire straits.

  12. Piquerish says:

    Academic Freedom – we hardly knew ye.

  13. Los2000 says:

    double plus bad

  14. Kitten says:

    Sheesh. Grammar was hard enough, now this crap.

  15. dennisl59 says:

    Here’s an opinion piece about this issue:

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423531/transgender-students-entitlement-universities-orthodoxy

    posted 9/3 615pm Texas[Mental Health Matters]Time

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