Yesterday's StarTribune reported the latest happenings at the University of Minnesota. It seems the University is contemplating a new gender identity policy which would allow students and faculty to be called the pronoun of their choice. Those that fail to do so could suffer being expelled or fired.
Beyond that, just last month, the U officially gave students a list of pronouns and gender options on its online registration website, MyU. If they choose, they can identify themselves as male, female, agender, gender non-conforming, genderqueer, nonbinary or two-spirit, or skip the gender question entirely. Pronoun options include he, she, ze, the singular “they,” none and “prefer not to specify.”
If you're a fabulous professor, why would you ever take a job at a place like this where a pronoun slip could cost you your job? And if you're a great student, why would you go to a school that can't attract any decent professors due to their rush to be more inclusive than thou?
What the hell is going on?
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