Neener neener says academic
Via chainring, more bullying nonsense from the gruesome narcissist Sandy O’Sullivan:
An Australian professor recently said that he ‘misgenders’ students when they choose not to use a preferred pronoun in class.
There’s no such thing as a “preferred pronoun,” in class or anywhere else. It’s an idiotic concept. People can’t swap sex, and issuing commands on “preferred pronouns” isn’t going to change that. People can pretend to swap sex in some circumstances, mostly personal and private, but they can’t force anyone else to play along. They don’t get to change the language for everyone to humor their stupid childish insistence on playing let’s pretend 24/7 in all company.
“I do suggest if you’re teaching online, you ask students to put their pronouns next to their name. Some students, like some staff, don’t want to,” Sandy O’Sullivan tweeted Jan. 9. “Fair enough, I advise students that if they don’t, I’ll just use they/them or their name.”
See Dusty O’Rourke age 6, who calls his sister poopyhead at the dinner table over and over again until he gets sent to his room without dessert.
This is a grown-ass adult, an academic, and here he is bullying students with “play my childish game or I’ll call you ‘them’.” Not his job. His job is to teach them, not force them to play his fatuous word games.
New York University explains on its website that, “Using the wrong pronouns for a person. Misgendering someone can be done intentionally or unintentionally, and it can have a long-lasting harmful impact.”
No it can’t. Also, there’s no such thing.
I’m beyond bored with people like O’Sullivan trying to force everyone to be as childish as they are – “they” meaning people like O’Sullivan; it’s an authentic plural.
I rarely see pronouns listed in the subject line, signature line, or any other place in the workplace or much of anywhere else. In theatre programs, there will almost always be at least one they/them, and if they don’t specifically list pronouns, they put it in their bio.
We have the option of making it part of our profile to include pronouns; I know of only one instructor among all of the campuses that did; she/her has left the school and moved to Oregon.
The only place I have gone where I saw frequent pronouns ‘announced’ was the NEA conference I attended in the spring.
I suspect the trans lobby makes this a bigger thing than it is; from where I sit, most people don’t seem to give a flying fuck what pronouns you use, and figure you can tell what sex they are by a variety of means, including but not limited to physical appearance and/or name.
Most people have better things to do than sit around announcing pronouns and policing pronouns. I know I have many, many things that I consider much more worth my time than worrying if someone half a world away calls me “he” by accident.
O’Sullivan demonstrates the utter triviality of preferred pronouns. Yes, you can just speak to them directly and use their name or second person pronoun, just like in every normal conversation.
Wait.
We’re told over and over again that to “misgender”* someone is one of the worst things you could possibly do, yet here O’Sullivan is casually doing so as a form of spiteful punishment? I can imagine how quickly he would have a fellow professor up for disciplinary action if said colleague announced, in advance, that they were going to deliberately refuse to use preferred pronouns as a form of punishment reserved for just those students who included them in their signatures. Which is it? Is misgendering a trivial insult, or a Crime Against Humanity? You can’t have it both ways. If you’re a genderist, with your very own pronouns, isn’t deliberately using pronouns inappropriate to the gender of any person being spoken of, whether or not they subscribe to your beliefs, as offensive as calling a TiM “he?” If you’re going to demand respect, shouldn’t you offer it in the same circumstances? If you really believed in this, wouldn’t you go out of your way to respect the choices of others, particularly if you’d been vocal about the “harm” not doing so causes to people?
Oh, I see. It’s only
the Electtrans identified people who are the “someones” worthy of this sort of respect and deference. The rest of us cis scum get what what’s coming to us.I am inordinately pleased that spellcheck does not recognize “misgender” as a word.