Ridiculousness has taken over college campuses. Students are so hypersensitive, that now, words really may as well have no meaning.
As the Young America’s Foundation reported, the Kansas University student senate voted to eliminate the pronouns “him” and “her” from the Rules and Regulations document:
Apparently, the move comes in the name of being “inclusive,” which now involves denying reality. The silliness of such a problem has now really escalated. It used to just be a question of a “him” or “her” preference–and deciding which one to use.
But now, there’s a sudden step to be mindful of these “gender neutral” pronouns. It’s befuddling that there’s a need to cater to them at all. Identify with whatever you please. The reality remains that someone is either biologically a man, in which case he would be referred to as “him,” or someone is biologically a woman, in which case she would be “her.”
Creativity is a good thing. But this is getting out of hand.
YAF evokes George Orwell’s 1984’s concept of “Newspeak” and includes the quote that “it’s a great thing, the destruction of words.” It seems that the KU students may have taken that bit a bit too literally. What’s frightening is that it’s being done in the name of tolerance and acceptance, even if it conflicts with the truth.
And what’s with with this “gender neutral safe space?” Dare the question be raised if it’s necessary?
College students are so liberal and “inclusive” nowadays it doesn’t seem like those in the KU “LGTB plus” community, which also involves “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual and ally students, faculty and staff,” are the ones who will be such a target on campus.
What about students who fear exercising their free speech to voice opposition to the senate’s decision? What about those who question the necessity of such a “gender neutral safe space”?
With college campuses being the place where free speech (and thought) goes to die, it sounds like conservative students may need a safe space of their own.
