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2016-12-14 Britain

Oxford University students asked to use ‘gender neutral pronouns’

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Posted by Fred 2016-12-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 Obscure, intersectional, fictive,
These nutjobs were strictly descriptive,
But having once sipped of
This heady ascriptive
Prescription, they found it addictive.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-12-14 03:39|| 2016-12-14 03:39|| Front Page Top

#2 The University of Tennessee does not use those made up words. The Trustees did away with the department that pushed this. Oh, the University of Tennessee is in Knoxville.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-12-14 08:02|| 2016-12-14 08:02|| Front Page Top

#3 If they keep it up, and have a good veterinarian program (kid's goal at the moment), they stay on the list.

Seriously, I am concerned I will have to put my kids through college before they go to college.

What is the problem here, are people bored? Life is not challenging enough?

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-12-14 10:55|| 2016-12-14 10:55|| Front Page Top

#4 What is the problem here, are people bored? Life is not challenging enough?
Posted by swksvolFF

Help is on the way. Everyone will soon get a trophy.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-14 11:37|| 2016-12-14 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Them in twenty years:

Ever hear of the Seattle Seven?

mmmmm?

That was me....and six other ze.

*Point of order - ze or zes for plural? Uninquiring minds want to know.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-12-14 11:56|| 2016-12-14 11:56|| Front Page Top

#6 These universities should be required to issue something like a prospectus for each major. The information would focus on the students' prospects in the job market after they graduate, what are their chances of finding a job related to their field of study and, upon finding such a job, what are they likely to get paid for it. The information in the prospectus would also show an estimation of how long it would take to repay the student debt at the projected rate of pay. I'm guessing that once the students and their parents start gaining access to this information enrollment will drop precipitously.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-12-14 12:05|| 2016-12-14 12:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Ain't gonna happen, Abu. Somebody has to pay for the bloated administrative staff. Gotta protect their phony-balony jobs.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-12-14 12:57|| 2016-12-14 12:57|| Front Page Top

#8 My hope, DB, is that many of those jobs would go away. It might be kinda tough for some of those people to earn an honest living but in the long run it might be good for them.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-12-14 13:22|| 2016-12-14 13:22|| Front Page Top

#9 ze or zes for plural?

Y'all and all y'all for plural.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-12-14 16:06|| 2016-12-14 16:06|| Front Page Top

#10 I prefer to simply call them it. If they aren't he or she or a hermaphrodite, then they aren't humans

Posted by Silentbrick 2016-12-14 17:57|| 2016-12-14 17:57|| Front Page Top

#11 As usual, idiots that make big money create BS for others to study.

Posted by newc 2016-12-14 19:06|| 2016-12-14 19:06|| Front Page Top

#12 I use a gender neutral one as well.

"You stupid fuckers."

Works for everyone!

Posted by DarthVader 2016-12-14 20:49|| 2016-12-14 20:49|| Front Page Top

#13 And here I thought "ze" was a pronoun used by someone speaking either in a bad, and I mean really bad French accent or one of the Gabor sisters

Posted by Cheaderhead 2016-12-14 22:03|| 2016-12-14 22:03|| Front Page Top

#14 Have a pole? He. Hole? She. Both? Let's talk.

Posted by KBK 2016-12-14 23:11|| 2016-12-14 23:11|| Front Page Top

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