Canadian professor under fire for refusing to use genderless pronouns

[HVC]

Golan Globus.

Hugh Mungus

[Ed Anger]

I'm torn. Tenured professor vs HR, which is worse?

HR

[CountDeMoney]

I'm torn. Tenured professor vs HR, which is worse?

HR

[Martim Silva]

LGBTI

OK, I realize this is cliché and straight out of Patton Oswalt, but when the hell did the "I" show up?  What's the timestamp on that fucking memo, please?

Oh, you're very late. The "I" has been added long time ago.

In fact, it has gotten several extra letters ever since. If you want to be 100% Progressive, you should use the term "LGBTIQA".

http://student.uncw.edu/org/pride/FAQ/faq_lgbtiqa.htm

Uni of N. Carolina clarification: LGBTIQA stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer/Questioning and Allied. It is sometimes also abbreviated as LGBT or GLBT. The word "Queer" is also sometimes used to include all of these groups.

[Monoriu]

I am just going to do what I have always done.  I will say "he" to refer to a male, and "she" to refer to a female.  If I ever talk to a transgender person, I will be happy to use whatever pronouns that person specifically request, within reason (your majesty is NOT acceptable  ).

[Martinus]

god, god's if you will.

Though I would prefer a genderless pronoun to having to learn 800 pronouns for each new special gender.

Hey, here's a crazy idea - why don't we keep to the 2 genders we know?

[Martinus]

LGBTI

OK, I realize this is cliché and straight out of Patton Oswalt, but when the hell did the "I" show up?  What's the timestamp on that fucking memo, please?

There is already LGBTQIA. I say we stepped into swamp when we added T. I mean way to prove homosexuality is not associated with a mental illness.

[Duque de Bragança]

Golan Globus.

[Solmyr]

god, god's if you will.

Though I would prefer a genderless pronoun to having to learn 800 pronouns for each new special gender.

Hey, here's a crazy idea - why don't we keep to the 2 genders we know?

Because, you know, there are more than two?

[Zanza]

I guess my social circle is not diverse enough but I've never encountered this "more gender pronouns" outside rants about it on the internet.

[garbon]

I guess my social circle is not diverse enough but I've never encountered this "more gender pronouns" outside rants about it on the internet.

I only encountered it in university.

[Solmyr]

I have several friends who would like to be referred to as something other than he or she (often it's they/them). And you know, it's not that hard!

[Grallon]

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/canada/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/u-of-t-professor-attacks-political-correctness-in-video-refuses-to-use-genderless-pronouns

Those idiotic millenials will be the death of our civilization.



G.

[celedhring]

I have never encountered this in my life, but I just googled and the proponents of a non-gender specific language in Spanish go with -e terminations. Which actually makes some grammatical sense (we already have shitloads of non-gender specific adjectives that end with -e).

[Martinus]

It's actually funny because one of the pet causes of Polish feminists is to create feminine version of words which denote professions where the word in use has traditionally a masculine form only (so eg. rather than calling a female minister "Madame Minister" they insist on using the form "Ministra").

It seems to me that this all boils down to insisting on change for the change sake rather than addressing any actual wrong.