Preferred Pronouns Week in Higher Education
Your weekly report on campus news.
Left wing craziness that used to be limited to college campuses is now quickly creeping into the real world.
How did we get here?
- Science! Harvard Disputes the Idea That Testosterone and Masculinity are Connected
- Michigan State Kicks Off Higher Education’s Annual Ban on Offensive Halloween Costumes
- Harvard Business Group Cancels Event With Tech Company Over Ties to ICE
Trump on campus.
- Poll Finds Three-Fourths of College Students Support Trump Impeachment Inquiry
- University of Florida Students Protest Appearance by Donald Trump Jr.
What political bias?
- Display Warning of the Dangers of Socialism at UNC Charlotte Taken Down
- University of Maine Publicly Shames College Republicans in Flap Over Columbus Day
Compare and contrast.
- CA Governor Gavin Newsom Signs Bill Requiring Abortion Pill Access on Public College Campuses
- Lawsuit Claims University Refused to Hire Professor Because She Opposes Abortion
This is where things are headed.
- Op-Ed: American Taxpayers Losing Patience With ‘Campus Kooks’
- Report Suggests Higher Education is Shrinking as an Industry
College sports.
- Secretly Filmed Video of Female College Athletes Posted to Porn Site
- College Coach Under Investigation for Allegedly Charging Athletes Rent to Sleep in Locker Room
Gibson’s vs. Oberlin update.
This guy rocks.
Everyone gets a trophy.
Really?
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Priority 1!: If this is International Pronouns Day, it is high time we fix the plural “you” problem. “Y’all” and “Yinz” are colorful localisms, but we really need the correct the intolerable situation we are now in of using the plural for the singular even without a distinct plural.
And International Conjunction Day should have Priority 1 of a mandatory definition as to the meaning of “or”, and completely legalizing “and/or”.
And notice that last period? I put it outside the quotes intentionally. Deal with it!
I prefer my president to prefer VERBS and action.
I admit to having a pet peeve with the pronoun protesters.
First of all, there was dear Mrs. Kosovsky back in 11th grade (no, not a boyish crush; she was just a veteran, middle-aged teacher doing what she was hired to do with us) who told us that pronouns must agree with antecedents, so it’s “If somone has trouble, you must help him–not them”, and explained how the “him” is considered gender neutral. Yes, some still feel a loyalty towards good teachers.
Next, I spent a good chunk of my adult life in the Far East. I read, write, and speak Mandarin, which adopted gendered pronouns only after 1919, and that as a nod to the “progressive” West. Yet, even so, putting 他，她，and 它 in the place of all-around 他 for he, she, and it, they still pronounced them all “ta” in the first tone. Then there were the Chinese local languages (exposure to Hakka, Hokkien, and Cantonese) in which there’s still no gender to the pronouns at all. And then there was Thai, where pronouns may vary with social rank, but not with gender. Yet, somehow, all these speakers of Sinitic and Kradai languages could still be as big a bunch of male chauvinist pigs as anyone who speaks a highly gendered Indo-European or Semitic language.
Hence, I see the pronoun protesters as yet another shame-inducing example of what has been called America’s incredible provinciality.