<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>So we counter a ridiculously far-left policy with a ridiculously far-right one? Ms. Schlussel is as bad as the ones she's criticizing!</div><div><br></div><div>-Jeremy Graves</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Harold Schiffman <hfsclpp@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> lp <lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, February 16, 2010 7:32:28 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [lg policy] blog: He . . . She . . Ze?!: Most Absurd Language Police
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He . . . She . . Ze?!: Most Absurd Language Police Yet<br>By Debbie Schlussel<br><br>When I was a freshman at The University of Michigan, the thuggish,<br>long-haired, far-left hippie in a punk band teaching assistant of my<br>English class reduced a grade on my paper by a full grade because I<br>used the word, “Congressman, ” and not the gender neutral,<br>“Congressperson.” I told him, “This is a bunch of verbal manure . . .<br>or is that, ‘personure?’” Thomas Sowell found out about it and<br>mentioned it in one of his syndicated columns. It was ridiculous, but<br>at the time Michigan had an absurd “inclusive” language policy, which<br>stated that if you used words like “he,” or “fireman,” or, even<br>“mother,” you were being “uninclusive,” and therefore, you were<br>somehow a bigot. Dumb, dumb, dumb. But leftists get off on being the<br>language and speech police. Stretching the limits
on political<br>correctness is their ultimate aphrodisiac.<br><br>And, so, it’s no surprise that my alma mater is once again involved in<br>this ridiculous language orthodoxy. While our Islamic enemies are<br>teaching their kids to use guns, rig IEDs, and destroy us, some<br>gender-ambiguous bizarro in the University of Michigan School of<br>Social Work, Timothy Jean Corvidae, who wants the University to get<br>rid of the use of gender specific pronouns like “he” and “she” in<br>favor of “Ze.” Corvidae is both a student and on the University of<br>Michigan staff. The fact that Corvidae has a man’s name, but<br>identifies on her/his/its/ze’s Facebook page as a woman (where<br>he/she/it/ze looks like a pre-op male-to-female transsexual)<br>interested in dating women, might have something to do with it. (It’s<br>creepy to see a photo, above, of he/she/it/ze hugging a kid.)<br><br>Sadly, the University faculty Senate is
considering the measure to get<br>rid of the pronouns, and could refer it Michigan’s President for<br>approval. Yes, “Idiocracy,” ain’t just a movie or our future. It’s<br>our present. And, frankly, if they don’t identify with any of the<br>genders, what if they identify with pedophiles or those who engage in<br>bestiality. They need to feel “included” in our language, too, don’t<br>they? It’s only fair if we’re gonna subvert English to the warped<br>sexual urges and identities of every weirdo minority on earth. Maybe<br>they can use the words “horse” and “camel” or “molesta [my new slang,<br>hip word for child molestation, b/c who are we to judge that it's not<br>cool, right?]” as adverbs. “Molesta” went to the store with “camel’s”<br>daughter. “Molesta” didn’t have enough money to pay for candy for<br>“camel daughter.” Yup, that’s, um, “gender
neutral,” and is a whole<br>lot more entertaining than “ze,” which just sounds like some former<br>Nazi hiding in South America.<br><br><br>Timothy Corvidae is a student in the University’s School of Social<br>Work. Corvidae doesn’t identify with any specific gender and uses the<br>pronoun “ze” instead of “she” or “he.”<br>Yup, and far left professors are actually going along with this<br>instead of failing this candy-ass like he/she/it/ze deserves. Uh-huh,<br>exactly the type of “social worker” and future psychologist you<br>want–someone who is that confused and insanely obsessed with gender<br>pronouns. Corvidae is a member of a group of people on campus who face<br>language barriers as a result of their decision to not identify with a<br>specific gender. Though these individuals represent a minority of<br>students, their cause has recently made its way to the forefront of<br>campus discussion.<br><br>Barriers? What
barriers? Either you know how to speak English or you<br>don’t. Recently the Michigan Student Assembly passed a resolution to<br>recommend removing gender-specific language from the Statement of<br>Student Rights and Responsibilities and some students and professors<br>are discussing mandating the use of gender-neutral language in<br>University classrooms. Ah, the far left Michigan Student Assembly.<br>When I served on this “august body,” I was considered extreme far<br>right for opposing similar language police declarations. They wanted<br>to kick me off, but couldn’t.<br><br>In its simplest form, gender-neutral language encompasses the use of<br>the singular “they” as well as non-binary pronouns like ze, in place<br>of the traditional he/she. This form of speech eliminates any word<br>with connotations of gender like “chairman,” opting instead for the<br>nonexclusive “chair.” Yup, even the Republican Party, nationally
and<br>in Michigan, has already adopted using a piece of furniture as a<br>faux-title, so, in essence, these nuts have basically already won or<br>are on home stretch. Corvidae said finding alternatives to the<br>traditional gendered language is important because there is an intense<br>level of exclusion in texts that only use binary language. “I don’t<br>identify either way (as male or female),” Corvidae said. “When I read<br>texts that use him or her, I feel like, ‘Where am I in this text?’ And<br>it’s as though I’m invisible.”<br><br>If only. Where are you? You’re not in the insane asylum, where you<br>desperately belong. Anne Hermann, interim chair of the Women’s Studies<br>Department, said eliminating gendered undertones is essential to<br>ensure fairness in language. Getting rid of tenure for useless lesbian<br>weirdos who teach worthless BS like this is essential to ensure<br>fairness in education . . . or, rather, any
education at all. And<br>fairness for humans and Western society, for that matter. “If I were<br>the ‘chairman’ of the Women’s Studies Department, there would be this<br>incredible disconnect between my title and who I am,” she said. “And I<br>would be constantly reminded that I’m not really supposed to be in my<br>position.”<br><br>OMG, I’m laughing my butt off. Is this for real? Am I actually reading<br>this bad SNL skit? Noah Meeks is a volunteer at the Spectrum Center —<br>the University’s office for LGBT affairs. Meeks said traditional<br>debates over gender have been limited to eliminating language<br>associated with men in situations that are meant to be all<br>encompassing.<br>“We rejected ‘he’ as an all-encompassing pronoun,” he said. “With ‘him<br>or her,’ we need to recognize that some people don’t identify with<br>either, and although there are few of them, they still need to be<br>accounted
for.”<br><br>Um, yeah, some people don’t identify with the human species, and<br>there’s a loony bin and medications ready to go. It’s not the language<br>that needs to be altered. It’s some people . . . with shock therapy.<br><br>“There’s more awareness, more openness and more resistance to the idea<br>of a binary gender system,” he said.<br><br>In recognition of non-gendered students on campus, the Michigan<br>Student Assembly passed a resolution to amend the Statement of Student<br>Rights and Responsibilities to use gender-neutral language exclusively<br>as part of a package of recommendations to the student code.<br><br>The resolution is currently being reviewed by the Senate Advisory<br>Committee on University Affairs — the leading faculty governing body<br>on campus — and if passed, will continue to University President Mary<br>Sue Coleman for final approval.<br><br>Loren Sherry, assistant director of the Spectrum Center,
helped to<br>compile the resolution. He said that when he went through the<br>approximately 10-page Statement and replaced every use of binary<br>language with a gender-neutral alternative, he was very specific about<br>the choices he made.<br><br>TEN pages for this BS?! Just draw a picture of a man with his penis<br>cut-off (and Western civilization and the classics with their penises<br>cut off). That only takes one page. And it says the same thing.<br><br>In addition to the work by MSA and other student groups, in interviews<br>last week many professors said they agree that gender-neutral thinking<br>should be used in the classroom.<br><br>Robin Queen, professor of linguistics, wrote in an e-mail interview<br>with The Michigan Daily that educators should promote awareness about<br>the exclusionary aspects of language.<br><br>“The main issue, in my opinion, is to help writers (be they students,<br>administrators, instructors or staff members) become
aware that there<br>are choices to be made and that those choices have consequences,”<br>Queen wrote in the e-mail.<br><br>Yeah, the choice to drop out of Michigan and go to a real university<br>where they give you an education instead of subjecting you to this<br>insane bullcrap. And the consequences that an “education” not even<br>worthy of a Jonestown cult might some day cause people to wake up and<br>stop funding these people with their tax money (Michigan is a public<br>university relying heavily on state and federal funds and grants).<br><br>Corvidae said teaching gender-neutral language is an important step<br>because so many people are unaware of how to handle gender in their<br>speech.<br><br>“One of the biggest challenges with gender-neutral language is that<br>people don’t know how to use it,” Corvidae said. “They feel<br>embarrassed if they don’t know how to read people’s gender because<br>that’s something that’s really
important in our society.”<br><br>Ding, ding, ding. You finally came close to reality. This whole<br>episode is an embarrassment. I’d be embarrassed in the presence of<br>anyone using “ze” as a pronoun. It’s bad enough to hear someone call<br>themselves the “chair.”<br><br>Corvidae said using gender-neutral language in the classroom allows<br>students a “safe setting” to practice non-exclusionary speech.<br><br>A safe setting? PUH-LEEZE. If I’m an Islamic terrorist, that giant<br>swamp of limpness epitomized by humans is gonna be my first target.<br>Ze-hu Akbar, Ka-Boom.<br><br>Aric Knuth, lecturer in Department of English, said though he is often<br>skeptical of new policies, he was surprised to hear no policy is in<br>place.<br><br>“It surprised me because we are people who are in the business of<br>language,” he said. “And we understand how language interacts with and<br>often represents other kinds of big intellectual
problems in our<br>lives.”<br><br>Uh, dude, the big intellectual problem is that you have a job teaching<br>English in the United States of America.<br><br>Despite the lack of an official policy, professors continue to<br>encourage the exploration of different language options.<br><br>The Department of English ruled in favor of the singular “they” as<br>grammatically correct, and many professors in the Women’s Studies<br>Department implement gender-neutrality into their curriculum to some<br>extent.<br><br>LSA junior Kelsey Sovereign said gender-neutral thinking is strongly<br>encouraged in her women’s studies classes.<br><br>“In our society you often are either designated as a man or a woman,<br>but we talk about not necessarily labeling things as one or the<br>other,” she said.<br><br>She’s right. Tomorrow, I’m gonna stop being unfair to bananas and call<br>them soda. And apples, well . . . it’s not nice to exclude them from<br>the
meat group. Gonna call ‘em steak.<br><br>She also said that specific assignments often call exclusively for<br>gender-neutral language.<br><br>Wow, someone’s parents are blowin’ a whole lot of money.<br><br>Keith Reisinger, graduate student instructor for the Women’s Studies<br>Department, said the issue reaches far beyond any departmental policy<br>or the confines of the University.<br><br>“I think we as a whole need to change how we talk about gender and<br>people,” he said.<br><br>Me, too. About Mr. Reisinger, “ze” is an idiot.<br><br>Like I said, our enemies are teaching their kids how to kill us, and<br>we’re too busy destroying masculinity, gender roles, and the English<br>language with this absurd exercise in the trivial. And we wonder why<br>they hate us.<br><br>This is a sliver of why.<br><br><span><a target="_blank"
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