I am just calling everyone IT from now on like I do everyone's babies.
WE.ARE.DOOMED!
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Man, this thread is funny. Glad I opened.
Anyway, while reviewing applications for a prestigious fellowship (in hard sciences), this was the first year I noticed nearly *everyone* include their preferred pronouns in their signature block. So, it was Jenny Smith, Ph.D., 'she/her', etc. Also the first year I heard the term 'water justice'....but, whatever - their world, just living in it.
Your parents shared this same sense of doom and gloom when you all were growing long hair, having premarital sex, and smoking pot. I wouldn't say everything turned out 'okay', but we survived. So will you (and everyone else). Stay woke!
The world is all f*cked up.
The internet has ruined our country and possibly the world. It has good qualities but it's used for nefarious purposes half of the time including politics on both sides. My grandfather would have laughed his ass off if I told him some douche in Russia could shut a petroleum pipe line down for a week in the US using a keyboard.
If I refer to these jack@sses as dumb f^cks, am I being gender neutral?
No, a jack@ss is a male donkey...
No, a jack@ss is a male donkey...
If you consider two pure PR moves akin to Bill Veeck inserting Eddie Gaedel as a pinch hitter constitutes “going coed.”
Doesn't really matter what I "think" or whether it was a PR stunt or not.
They were on the team, and kicked extra points and FG's in at least 1 game.
Gotcha. And the Fonz is a conductor:
Henry Winkler named Pops guest conductor
The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod has announced that Henry Winkler will be the Celebrity Guest Conductor
orleans.wickedlocal.com
Try to use your brain — college football is not now, and never will be, “coed.”
Eddie Gaedel was a midget. I know that's a bad word. The faculty senate will be coming after me. What's correct? Vertically challenged? Tall people are vertically enhanced. Fat people are horizontally enhanced.
I find this funny. I mean, its France for God's sake
France Bans Schools from Using 'Gender-neutral' Words in French, Says It's 'Harmful'
I like it. Also, languages with gendered nouns could be in turmoil. In France what about Le Monde, for example? Get the "Le" out of there!!
I find it strange in the US the trend is to snuff out any individuality, at least when it comes to gender. We can be black and white. We can be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. But heaven forbid if we call ourselves a man or a woman.
Only if you identify as such.
Awesome. I couldn't afford PSU but am Powerpointing my PSU Identity Diploma now. I identify as Dr. Obie Obliviax, Engineer, Medical Doctor and Attorney at Law.
Why not? It worked for “Dr. Maya Angelou”.Awesome. I couldn't afford PSU but am Powerpointing my PSU Identity Diploma now. I identify as Dr. Obie Obliviax, Engineer, Medical Doctor and Attorney at Law.
Lost in all of this, which Trustee will receive the no bid award to update all 50 bazillion pages of offensive web content?
Seriously! Check out the satire site, Babylon Bee. Satire is hard these days because reality is so ridiculous.
Awesome. I couldn't afford PSU but am Powerpointing my PSU Identity Diploma now. I identify as Dr. Obie Obliviax, Engineer, Medical Doctor and Attorney at Law.
Penn State Nixes Labels Such As ‘Freshman,’ ‘Junior,’ ‘Senior,’ Citing Lack Of Gender Inclusivity
By Chrissy Clark•
May 12, 2021 DailyWire.com
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Pennsylvania State University’s faculty senate passed a resolution on “inclusive language” that will rid the university of alleged paternalistic labels such as “freshmen,” “junior,” “senior,” “upperclassmen,” and “underclassmen.”
The Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs passed the “Removal of Gendered & Binary Terms from Course and Program Descriptions” resolution on April 27, according to Campus Reform.
The introduction of the resolution claims that gendered language comes from living in a male-dominated society.
“The University … has grown out of a typically male-centered world. As such, many terms in our lexicon carry a strong, male-centric, binary character to them,” the resolution reads. “Terms such as ‘freshmen’ are decidedly male-specific, while terms such as ‘upperclassmen’ can be interpreted as both sexist and classist.”
Terms such as “junior” and “senior” “are parallel to western male father-son naming conventions, and much of our written documentation uses he/she pronouns,” according to the resolution.
By Benjamin Zeisloft
Another goal of the resolution is to replace gendered pronouns such as “he/him/his” and “she/her/hers” with vague pronouns such as “they/them/their” or other “non-gendered terms such as student, faculty member, staff member, etc.”
Course descriptions are the target of the proposed gendered-language change. The resolution provided an example of a proposed edit.
The original course description for a theatre class on lighting design read:
THEA 270 Introduction to Lighting Design. Introduction to Lighting Design will focus on helping each student to develop a design process that takes him or her from script to stage.
Following the passage of the resolution, the course description will now read:
THEA 270 Introduction to Lighting Design. Introduction to Lighting Design will focus on helping each student to develop a design process that takes them from script to stage.
The resolution acknowledged that in some places gendered terms are necessary, particularly in degrees or classes with an emphasis on gender studies.
“The committee recognizes that there may be places where these terms, especially gender terms, may need to remain intact, for example in the case of courses or degrees that delve into gender studies,” the resolution reads.
A course description for a “gender and theatre” class would be allowed to include words such as “women’s” and “feminist.” The description would read:
THEA 207 Gender and Theatre. Theatre 207 provides a basic survey of issues of representations of gender identity in theatre. The course will trace women’s experiences in theatre from their absence on European classical stages to the more recent formation of feminist theatres.
The resolution will also replace the terms “freshman/sophomore/junior/senior” with the terms first-year, second-year, third-year, fourth-year, and beyond.
Concerns were raised by staff members that numbering years beyond fourth would “perhaps negatively reflect on students who, for various reasons, are taking longer to complete their (typically) four-year programs.”
The resolution suggests that instead of being called “fifth-year” students or “super-seniors,” students should be referred to as “advanced standing students.”
Terms such as “underclassmen” and “upperclassmen” were also switched to “lower division” and “upper division.”
The resolution was signed by 26 professors and administrators.
Penn State is among many universities that pushed to remove gendered language from instructional and promotional materials. According to Campus Reform, the University of Virginia approved a student ballot measure that would remove “gendered pronouns” from the student government’s constitution.
Nearly 89 percent of students who voted in the election approved of the update
Will they ban anyone from enrolling who has Junior or Senior in their name?
Will job titles be changed to not include junior or senior status?
Will they fail anyone who mentions "sophomoric behavior?"
Is the Verve Pipe banned from being played since they had a song called Freshmen?
Will job titles be changed to not include junior or senior status?
Will they fail anyone who mentions "sophomoric behavior?"
Is the Verve Pipe banned from being played since they had a song called Freshmen?
I love the Babylon Bee site. Way too many have no sense of humor.
If you can read most aren’t traumatized they are more mystified at the stupidity of our society these says - lots of terrible things going on - wars all over the place and this is the focus of our esteemed university - I would think providing a valuable education would be of higher importance or at least getting kids back into classrooms.
Until you have an art exhibit at The Barron Palace you haven't qualified...Awesome. I couldn't afford PSU but am Powerpointing my PSU Identity Diploma now. I identify as Dr. Obie Obliviax, Engineer, Medical Doctor and Attorney at Law.
LOL...I worked at a place where a handful of people had photos of themselves sitting on backhoes and bulldozers. After several months, I was remote, I finally asked someone why people had these photos. As it turns out, the owner had a big ranch in TX. You can get property tax abatements if you build watersheds on your ranch. So the CEO would invite inner circle people to his ranch to help dig lakes from time to time. If you were invited, it put you into the elite circle of employees. So people would have these photos taken, get them framed and put them in their offices "just to let you know".
To be clear, I was never invited and left shortly thereafter.
The whole word has apparently always been far too complicated. People would struggle with the singular vs. plural forms (i.e., “I’m an alumni”) and the gender specificity (forgetting to use “-a/-ae” instead of “-us/-i” when appropriate.
Now we have to worry about the sensitivity of the terms not being gender neutral.
From here on out, let’s just be “grad-joo-its” or something…
What if I find the color blue and the letter P offensive and traumatic. Is there any hope for me?
If I self-identified as an alumni/nus/nae, could I have avoided actually attending and paying that pesky tuition?
Next time a shegirlwomanmantranpanbi calls me dude I am going to say "I identify as a chick".
I hope I would get kicked in the nuts.
I hope I would get kicked in the nuts.
This nonsense goes on in many places, not just PSU. As a retired teacher/college instructor I would suggest that all members of academia be required to spend 5 years in the real world before teaching. Do that and much of this BS would end.
So you saying you don’t have the right heavy equipment?
Then make them work outside one of every five years thereafter. Plus, everyone....I mean everyone......should run their own business for at least three years. That would make everyone better employees, better customers, better voters.
Now the worldwide popular (over 3 million hits per day) DailyMail website has highlighted the situation. See this link. Penn State is now the being laughed at by the whole world.
