"Oh, nice to meet you ... What pronouns should I use?"

[digitalcb]

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">“University of Tennessee students have been asked to use gender-neutral pronouns such as "ze." …...in order to create a more inclusive campus, …..."'Oh, nice to meet you ... What pronouns should I use?' is a perfectly fine question to ask, </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">
</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">…..teachers, rather than calling roll, will instead ask each student to provide the name and pronoun he or she — or ze — wishes to be referred by. She says it relieves a burden for people expressing different genders or identities. “</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">
</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">I remember when NOW feminists tried to pull something similar in the 60's wanting everyone to use “gender neutral” pronouns such as “tey” instead of him or her. That got about as far as this nonsense will.</p>

 

[HunterDuck25]

They already have one.

IT -pronoun, nominative it, possessive its or (Obsoleteor Dialect) it, objective it; plural nominative they, possessive their or theirs, objective them.

1.(used to represent an inanimate thing understood, previously mentioned, about to be mentioned, or present in the immediate context):
2. (used to represent a person or animal understood, previously mentioned, or about to be mentioned whose gender is unknown or disregarded)

 

[digitalcb]

emoUpsmile emoUpsmile

 

[jdw2920]

Yea this is a crock of crap. I'm a teacher and I'm going to call you whatever is registered on my paperwork unless you tell me otherwise

 

[higdon21xrd]

I read this to a bunch of my classmates before a lab today and we just kinda stared at each other....

 

[Smalliefan2]

Good thing we don't use French as our language, they only have masculine or feminine as genders for everything. No such thing as "it" or neutral gender. What a crock of s... emoScratch

 

[takenoprisoners]

What do you expect from UT? GO DAWGS!!!

 

[MagicMan72]

As in ZE look that chick has a weiner?

 

[cptenn94]

Its really sad to see this stuff happening so close to home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5-rHqbp4vE


Wouldnt surprise me if things got like in the video(its only funny now).

 

[slowpoke]

I thought the transgender community wanted to be "Normal" and not to be singled out???? How does sitting in a college classroom announcing you are a "Ze" accomplish that?

 

[Treadfin]

They are tired of being called butt chuggers. I guess you could call them ze butt chuggers

 

[slowpoke]

emoUpsmile