Personally, I think they xe are going too far with this.
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….
Related:
ListVerse: 10 Most Absurd Things Banned On Politically Correct College Campuses
Daily Caller: Orwell’s Newspeak Is Coming To A Campus Near You
I am in so much trouble because I don’t know how to pronounce xe.
LOL, midget. I believe it’s pronounced: “B.S.”
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
Kafka would have felt right at home.
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.)
This is my alma mater!!!!!
I got an alumni newsletter in the mail yesterday and I threw it in the trash. Disgusting.
TELL them! And if you send money, stop it. It ain’t the same UT you knew. The horror of The Changelings advances to campae everywhere.
Talking about other people must be big among academics.
We’ve got ISIS cutting off our heads, and our own leaders cutting off our balls. God help us.
Perhaps they should just start using Pig-Latin…
All together TAMs: “Ol’ Rockze Top, Rockze Top Tennexxe”
LOL
Actually, they really and truly SHOULD, and every other thing they can think of to ridicule these miserable little Nazi bastards.
This is utter nonsense and we must stop THEM!
Macvel…”THEM”…would that be the masculine or feminine “THEM”…? or the androgenous?
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.
Academic Freedom – we hardly knew ye.
double plus bad
Well played!
Heh! Newspeak!
Sheesh. Grammar was hard enough, now this crap.
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