Mercer University Considering Replacing ‘Binary Titles’ for Homecoming Celebrations
“Those have never been inclusive terms for students who do not identify as binary male or female and might place students in an uncomfortable position”
At times, it really just seems like the left is intent on destroying traditions.
The College Fix reports:
Mercer University ponders replacing ‘binary titles’ for homecoming festivities
Mercer University is considering doing away with “binary titles” for its homecoming festivities in the name of “inclusion.”
The Macon, Georgia institution’s Office of Campus Life is currently conducting an online student survey on the issue, according to a report by The Mercer Cluster.
The survey asks “Do you think Mercer should move to a crowning two students as royalty, regardless of gender?” and “Do you think changing systems would promote more organizations to nominate members for royalty?”
Mercer looked into possible changes after student representatives from Kennesaw State visited campus to discuss their own “gender-neutral” homecoming. As a result, Mercer is pondering a system where “co-ed organizations would still […] nominate two members and single-gender organizations would nominate one.”
Sixteen students would then be nominated based on performance in interviews, and the final eight would voted on by students with the top two ultimately crowned “Homecoming Royalty” — regardless of gender.
Mercer Associate Director of Campus Life and Student Involvement Meredith White said survey results currently “remain mixed.”
Among the students who believe that the process should be changed is Erika Houser ’23, a neuroscience major.
“I know there is a lot of old tradition behind using the terms ‘king’ and ‘queen’ within Homecoming festivities,” Houser said. “Those have never been inclusive terms for students who do not identify as binary male or female and might place students in an uncomfortable position if they are nominated for the Homecoming court but do not feel comfortable using either of these labels.”
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That’s a terrible solution.
Instead, they should elect one “royal” from every gender currently acknowledged by woke orthodoxy.
So, 57 genders = 57 royals on the ballot.
This will prepare the students for real life, in which people like Mikey Bloomberg and Mittens Romney pretend to be exactly what they are not just to get easy access / victory on the ballot.
In support of my resolution, note that the tradition of electing TWO royals is unacceptably binary in the first place. If you’re going to think outside the box, sometimes that requires thinking outside the whole damn warehouse.
Call everyone Comrade Majesty.
Of course they’re all about destroying traditions. That’s what their Satan-worshiping philosophical leader Karl Marx told them to do. Tradition is but one of the obstacles stymieing the drive to the Socialist Utopia.