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-Great Cultural Revolution
Penn State University will drop 'male-centric' terms like 'freshman' and 'senior'
2021-05-16
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] In April, the University's Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs passed the 'Removal of Gendered & Binary Terms from Course and Program Descriptions'

  • The senate recommended replacing freshman/sophomore/junior/senior with 'first-year',' second-year' etc.

  • Other recommendations included replacing 'underclassmen' and 'upperclassmen' with 'lower division' and 'upper division'

  • The phrase 'him or her' was also replaced with 'them' in a bid to become gender neutral

  • Reaction to the resolution online has been mixed, with some people mocking the move as a failed attempt to be 'woke'
Posted by:Fred

#9  Biden is a Penn State fan.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-05-16 22:55  

#8  How the hell is "Senior" a male word? These people are insane, ... or else this is more deliberate mangling of language to unhinge any rational thinkers and enforce NewSpeak.
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574   2021-05-16 22:50  

#7  The phrase 'him or her' was also replaced with 'them' in a bid to become gender neutral

What if you want to be referred to as a "him" or "her" and not a "them?"

How about focusing of education and academic rigor and not the discriminatory "wokeness" crap?
Posted by: JohnQC   2021-05-16 10:17  

#6  The term "Jerry Sandusky" was also banned at Penn State...
Posted by: magpie   2021-05-16 09:54  

#5  How will they refer to one of their own professors, climate alarmist Michael Mann? Maybe they can just mumble his last name...
Posted by: Raj   2021-05-16 09:39  

#4  Ah, 'Penn" state, university and state, are named after that white male William Penn. Talk about white male oppression, but act on that. Got to get a new name.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-05-16 07:13  

#3  Actually, there were times in my life when I wouldn't mind a freshwoman.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-05-16 02:39  

#2  Penn State U should now disband and give its assets to charity.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-05-16 02:33  

#1  They should stop using words altogether. I mean, they're speaking *English*, fer cripes sake. If that isn't the language of dead white men, then I don't know what.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-05-16 00:56  

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