Penn State University will drop 'male-centric'
terms like 'freshman' and 'senior' - as
well as the words 'he and her' -
in a bid to 'become more inclusive'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Gina Martinez
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/15/2021 8:51:07 AM
Pennsylvania State University has been mocked after axing the words 'freshman,' 'junior' and 'senior' - as well as the phrase 'him or her' over fears they're sexist. Last month, the University's Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs passed the 'Removal of Gendered & Binary Terms from Course and Program Descriptions' resolution with a majority vote. They said the axed terms were examples of 'male-centric' terminology that needed to be updated with more inclusive words. Among the concerns raised by the committee were that 'freshmen' were too male-specific, with 'junior' and 'senior' axed for being 'parallel to western male father-son naming conventions.'
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/15/2021 9:00:34 AM (No. 786300)
Its Penn STATE. Meaning taxpayer funded. Were they given any opportunity to weigh in?
21 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
MissNan 5/15/2021 9:18:00 AM (No. 786325)
Stop the world I want to get off!
13 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/15/2021 9:19:16 AM (No. 786327)
I want to explain to Penn State and the rest of the left. Language is derived from the common usage of the population, not from edicts by leftist activists. We will use the language we like, not the language you decree. Have a nice day!
30 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
reefdiver 5/15/2021 9:41:12 AM (No. 786354)
Change the word "inclusive" to "insane" to be more accurate.
26 people like this.
I wonder what Jerry Sandusky would say. PSU has real problems, as do most schools, better address them before they bite ya in the posterior.
Wouldn’t have happened if Joepa was alive.
7 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
petrichor 5/15/2021 9:56:06 AM (No. 786375)
Too funny, but we needed new names anyway to signify the degree of indoctrination reached.
13 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
CallMeHank 5/15/2021 9:58:06 AM (No. 786377)
It's all very sophomoric.
16 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bazi 5/15/2021 9:58:47 AM (No. 786380)
Pennsylvania was named after a white man... Gasp! Rename the commonwealth.
12 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/15/2021 10:09:02 AM (No. 786391)
Spare me. Any female who gets triggered by those words needs a good spanking. And, I don’t mean in the Christian Grey sense. Come on, ladies, which is it? Are we supposed to be more powerful than a locomotive or quivering towers of jello victims? Stop the nonsense. Plenty of women who came before you learned how to live and prosper in “a (supposedly) man’s world.”
18 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/15/2021 10:35:30 AM (No. 786429)
Why not go straight to your end game. Everyone is now a sack of money...SOM.
5 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Peaches 5/15/2021 10:43:12 AM (No. 786440)
Only "sophomore" survives, but with the more inclusive spelling of "sophomorons."
8 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
justjoe1237 5/15/2021 11:56:03 AM (No. 786495)
Less than 1% of the population is strong arming the other 99%. Solzhenitsyn tells us that forcing the masses to accept obvious lies and bizarre protocols of speech was an important part of the totalitarian takeover. Once they get you to accept dictates that are clearly unreasonable/senseless/false, they have got you right in the palm of their hand. You will go along with and agree to anything because the former standards of "reasonable", "sensible", and "true" will have long ago been left in the dust. You just say and do what you have been taught to say and do, Comrade.
6 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 5/15/2021 12:18:32 PM (No. 786512)
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Can the legislature fix these fools?
5 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Talk2 5/15/2021 12:39:44 PM (No. 786529)
These people are stark raving nuts!
8 people like this.
If I had a dollar for every gender in existence, I'd have two dollars. I'd use it to bet a longshot in the Preakness today.
1 person likes this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
kono 5/15/2021 7:00:37 PM (No. 786801)
To become "more inclusive", they eliminate the words that refer to 98% of the population. Profoundly idiotic, counterproductive, and dishonest...
2 people like this.
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