"ze, xe, xem, xyr, zirs and hirs"

Do people actually use these weird words to describe or refer to another person? I've only seen this special snowflake crap on the internet. :I

That kind of mangling of the English language is nuts!!

And even this old atheist sees nothing wrong with having a traditional holiday party. No one says you have to ascribe to their belief system. If anyone wants to have a Hanukkah or whatever party, then so what?

It's sad that "diversity" must be associated with this sort of nuttiness.

This sort of stuff is not selling well with the general public:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/cchr/html/law/gender-identity-legalguidance.shtml#3.1

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Rapedby Clinton or Rapedby Deblasio that's how they would have to refer to me?

Or if I worked for Trump Towers and told them my preferred name was Fuck Trump? They would be forced to refer to me by that name?

Or a NYPD cop whose preferred name is Ikill Blacks. Anyone who refuses to use that name would be fined?

If my preferred pronoun was Dr. even though I didn't have a degree, would people be fined for not referring to me to as Dr.?

Boy, New Yorkers are going to have a lot of fun with this.

I think if I move to NYC my preferred name will be Yourmajesty Iloveyou. Just for fun. And the fines that people will pay for refusing to address me as that will go a long way towards funding Deblasio's government.

identify as female, the business or landlord or whoever has to refer to you as "Glenda" rather than "Glenn" (if that's the name you chose).

But I don't think I'd be able to force my landlord to address me as Ms. HitlerILoveYa on the grounds of non-discrimination.

The weird pronouns are hopeless to me.

my problem is that they have so many. Even German isn't that complicated. Having masculine, feminine, neutral1, neutral2, neutral3, etc, is ridiculous.

Grammatical gender in English has been decaying for over a 1000 years. In a few hundred years I expect "they" to replace he/she for natural, organic linguistic reasons, anyway.

See the reference in another post.

They're always doing crazy stuff like making up pronouns. Leave them alone.

They can do all that garbage on their own time and dime.

They just won't get paid for their crazy stuff.

Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.

engineering students. I like that. STEM is about the future. It's where the jobs are gonna be.

Or why he/she is making $181,000 a year.

Administrative bloat is a major issue at many public and private schools.

Of course, I'd like to know how many Associate Deans and Vice Provosts they have at the university as well.

See all the stuff we're producing? If we had more money and staff we could produce even more.

and gradually phasing out tenure track professors in favor of low paid adjunct instructors with no job security.

I fail to see how paying someone 180k a year to sit around is helping college diversity.

This is the quote that pops up in the game Civilization 4 when you finish researching Civil Service and it has stuck with me.

of that money, IMO...

Words for gender neutral pronouns. I only wish they had specified the money would go to disadvantaged minorities.

Paying a half million bucks a year for a few people to issue ridiculous "guidelines" sounds like a waste when instead it could be sending 10 or however many minority students through a valuable course of study.

I've been for gay rights for years, and support transgender folks, as well, and aside from some religious whackos, I think acceptance is moving in the right direction. It's been a long time coming, but we are finally living in an era where we can see progress.

However, I think the sticking point is going to be when people are asked to go along with gender fluidity and stupid, made-up pronouns. I do get that some people don't strongly identify with only one gender, but there's going to be push back if your kid's kindergarten teacher wants to be a woman one day and a man the next. And do you really want an attorney representing you who will be a man one day and a woman the next?

Frankly, I have a hard time believing that the government is going to mandate a right for people to change genders in the workplace. I think people are going to have to choose a gender for the workplace and stick with it, and express their other gender in their off time.

$3 million for the coach.

It's not public money, but it says something about our priorities, anyway.

I can't speak to U. Tennessee, but even most D1 schools to not generate a profit from football.

by alumni kicking in to the scholarship fund.

They have no tolerance.

Money isn't infinite and it is the responsibility of the administration to use their resources wisely.

STEM scholarships or beuracratic filler like all the stuff listed above? It's not even close.

I'm glad they lost their funding.