All Women’s College Gives Students 10 Pronouns to Choose From
Scripps College is taking the pronoun thing to the extreme.
Katherine Timpf reports at National Review.
All-Women’s College Offers Students Ten Pronoun Options, Including the Option to Never Be Called A Pronoun
Scripps College, a private all-women’s college in Southern California, is giving students ten pronoun options to choose from in their student portal accounts — including “hu, hum, hus, himself,” “Just My Name Please,” and “None”
It’s not clear what the hell students who choose “None” are supposed to be called, especially since “Name Only” is another option. Are they (oops! I said “they!”) asking to not be spoken to at all? Because that sounds like a microaggression.
The other eight options are “E/Ey, Em, Eir/Eirs, Eirself/Emse,” “Per, Per, Per/Pers, Perself,” “Zi, Hir/Hirs Hirself,” “Ze, Zir, Zir/Zirs, Zirself,” “They, Them, Their/Theirs, Themse” (used as a singular pronoun) and — yes — the archaic “He, Him, His, Himself” or “Her, She, Hers, Herself.”
This list of pronouns, as well as a pronunciation guide for those insensitive bigots who don’t already know them by heart, was provided to the College Fix.
The students’ selections are given to professors. It’s not clear what kind of hell a professor might have to endure for accidentally using the wrong one — but it could be serious, especially considering that at least one student considers the options to be necessary protection from “institutionalized violence.” Yes — “violence”:
“One’s gender identity should not be something that causes them anxiety in their everyday lives,” junior Rachel Neuberg told The Student Life, the official college newspaper for the affiliated Claremont and Pomona Colleges.
All-Women’s College Offers Students Ten Pronoun Options, Including the Option to Never Be Called A Pronoun (National Review)
Comments
Forget pronouns. Address me using one of these prenominals: Sir, Mister, Reverend, Engineer (I have an engineer license), or Master (I have a Masters degree). Refer to me by using a prenominal + my name. Following the German practice, multiple prenominals are expected as in Reverend Engineer Master Smith. Simple.
My preferred pronoun is “It” and I am deeply offended that the insensitive, patriarchal, privileged overlords won;t include it! Intolerance!