PC, And I Don’t Mean Personal Computer

Gender neutral speak.  One way or another that’s what the English language is becoming.  The higher education institution, (formerly known as) Prince…ton, has just issued guidelines on “inclusive language”.  You can read the guidelines here:  Inclusive Memo

I find it ironic that the memo has been issued by the “HuMAN Resources Department”.  Shouldn’t that be renamed the “Non-gender-specific-mass-of-semi-sentient-protoplasm Resources Department”?  Of course if we want to be inclusive we should not refer to it as a “Department”.  That would mean a division of the university.  Not very inclusive.  “Non-gender-specific-mass-of-semi-sentient-protoplasm Resources Generalized-location-on-the-university-campus”.  There, that’s better.

Okay, maybe I’m lazy but it’s tiring (boring to me) that we have this push to neuter everything in life.  You can see in my posts that I do not always use “inclusive gender neutral speak”.  Where a pronoun is appropriate I will use the masculine form.  If a reader feels that I’m excluding women, that’s their problem not mine.  And just how far are we going to go with this?

With the fear of “man”, instead of saying “men and women” should we now say “men and woes”?  Hmmm, I’ll just let that one hang there…

I find it ridiculous that “the chairman” has been neutered in many business circles to just “the chair”.  Sheesh, I always thought the chair was where you rested your arse.  I didn’t know that an inanimate cloth covered wooden object had an opinion.  Of course a chair does have the closest connection to the orifice that many PC people speak out of.

If we want to be inclusive, what else should we get rid of.  Why do we celebrate Sally Ride’s (first American woman into space) achievements?  Let’s only put John Glenn in the history books.  Why do we have men’s and women’s athletic records?  Should we rewrite the United States Constitution?  “All men are created equal…”

Stop the madness!

“One small step for person.  One giant leap for people”.

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