'Preferred' pronouns gain traction at US colleges

IMO the headline exaggerates by implication.



This isn't "gender bending" is the commonly understood sense of "girls" being "boys" or vice versa.

Also, the examples in the article are at a school that only admits women.



'Preferred' pronouns gain traction at US colleges (AP)

Quote:

... "Because I go to an all-women's college, a lot of people are like, 'If you don't identify as a woman, how did you get in?'" said sophomore Skylar Crownover, 19, who is president of Mouthing Off! and prefers to be mentioned as a singular they, but also answers to he. "I just tell them the application asks you to mark your sex and I did. It didn't ask me for my gender." On high school and college campuses and in certain political and social media circles, the growing visibility of a small, but semantically committed cadre of young people who, like Crownover, self-identify as "genderqueer" — neither male nor female but an androgynous hybrid or rejection of both — is challenging anew the limits of Western comprehension and the English language. ...

Hmm. Maybe a way to stay a virgin while at college? I'm Including avoiding lesbian sex in that formulation.



Falsifiable prediction: Really not the wave of the future, even though I can handle it just fine if it turns out I'm wrong about that. :cool:

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