UT Knoxville has finally lost their minds

[Rob]

The University of Tennessee is asking students to use “ze, hir, hirs, and xe, xem, xyr.”

No, those words are not another language. They’re actually the gender-neutral singular versions of pronouns.






The University of Tennessee Office for Diversity and Inclusion is asking students and faculty to use the pronouns in order to create a more inclusive campus. They say it alleviates a heavy burden for people expressing different genders or identities.

“We should not assume someone’s gender by their appearance, nor by what is listed on a roster or in student information systems,” Donna Braquet, the Director of the University of Tennessee’s Pride Center said. “Transgender people and people who do not identify within the gender binary may use a different name than their legal name and pronouns of their gender identity, rather than the pronouns of the sex they were assigned at birth.”

For the first week of classes, Braquet is also asking teachers to ask everyone to provide their name and pronoun instead of calling roll. “The name a student uses may not be the one on the official roster, and the roster name may not be the same gender as the one the student now uses,” ze said.

“These may sound a little funny at first, but only because they are new,” Braquet said. “The she and he pronouns would sound strange too if we had been taught ze when growing up.”

Braquet said if students and faculty cannot use ze, hir, hirs, xe, xem or xyr, they can also politely ask. “’Oh, nice to meet you, [insert name]. What pronouns should I use?’ is a perfectly fine question to ask,” ze said.

The University of Tennessee’s Media and and Internal Relations Director, Karen Ann Simsen, said she would like to stress there is no mandate or official policy to use the language.

“The information provided in the newsletter was offered as a resource for our campus community on inclusive practices,” said Simsen.

For more information visit: safezone.utk.edu.

[boracayjohnny]

The downward spiral of dumbassery continues. We're becoming the United States of me.

[Rob]

Originally Posted by boracayjohnny

The downward spiral of dumbassery continues. We're becoming the United States of ze.

FIFY

[NDMIKE88]

UT....what a joke.

[Rob]

Since it is the South, why couldn't they have just said:

Yall, Y'all, Ya'll, and Yal'l....yall?

I understand those better

[99 pewtercoupe]

YGTBFSM

[Loco Vette]

Originally Posted by NDMIKE88

UT....what a joke.

F*ck you

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by NDMIKE88

UT....what a joke.

On taxpayer's $$$$ those two nitwits need be fired.....no benefits...

[VITE1]

Liberal idiot is redundant.

[DAB]

i'll stick with established convention.

[RedLS1GTO]

What.

The.

F*ck.


This country has lost it's mind.


F**king idiot is gender neutral. I'll stick to that when addressing these morons.

Hey, morons is gender neutral too!~

[C5SilverBullet]

Originally Posted by NDMIKE88

UT....what a joke.

Notre Dame seminar: “Are you male or female? How do you know?” | Fellowship of the Minds

[stingraymyway]

Hope and Change = Divide and Conquer.

[Ol Timer]

I have no interest in communicating with zem.

[Olustee bus]

I have used a couple of those terms for years:

houza yo momma and dem

I called em.

[SteelCityBlue]

Trust me, those grads didn't have the original ones down

[69camfrk]

Originally Posted by boracayjohnny

The downward spiral of dumbassery continues. We're becoming the United States of me.

I have nothing to add.... Just wtfo?

[Blademaker]

The pussification of the US of A continues, and further hastens its merry march straight down the shitter.......


Jesus wept.

[stingraymyway]

Originally Posted by Olustee bus

I have used a couple of those terms for years:

houza yo momma and dem

I called em.

Originally Posted by SteelCityBlue

Trust me, those grads didn't have the original ones down

Trying to make America sound dumber and dumberer...........