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Source: Gender Pronouns | Springfield College

According to the academic experts at Springfield, we should no longer use the terms “mother”, “father”, “sister”, “brother”, “son”, “daughter”, “husband” or “wife”.

In general, the experts say, if you do not know someone’s personal pronouns, you should refer to others as “they”, “them” (which are almost always plural, not singular usage words).

The experts also say that it is wrong and unacceptable to say you do not care what pronouns are used for yourself. You have no right to have no pronouns defined for yourself but you must use others’ pronound precisely (sounds rather authoritarian – if someone else can demand “their” pronouns, why can you not care about your own?)

This is not a matter of permitting individuals to select their personal pronouns – this is the expert class  mandating your speech and thoughts. You will be forced to conform; you have no input into any of this.

Their goal is to mutilate the English language and create a language that has no genders at all and impose it on everyone else, without input from you or anyone else. Those promoting this have also proposed – without permission of Spanish native speakers – to do the same for Spanish. It is a form of colonialism where elitists impose their world order on you and force you to take on their customs. And it is colonialism when white academics impose this on the Spanish speaking community. (Why did languages evolve gendered nouns, prefixes and suffixes?)

The use of “they”/”them” for singular usage previously applied in limited circumstances, but normally applies to two or more people. However, Webster has apparently updated their dictionary to specify “they” and “them” as singular, which turns many news reports into gibberish that becomes difficult to interpret and follow.

This has gone way, way too far.

I’m far from anti-gay. In our extended family we have a gay marriage, and I lost a relative to AIDS. For several years I was a volunteer with the Seattle AIDS Walkathon. At work, I routinely had lunch with the president of the gay and lesbian employee group and bought our bed frame, used, from a lesbian couple. As a cosplay photographer, I’ve long photographed persons who were gender fluid or transgender. No big deal.

But the new militancy and violence, and the destruction of language without discussion (it’s being imposed on us) has gone too far. I will not being playing along with the pronoun police.

Springfield College estimates annual costs per student at about $58,000 per year.

The academic world has lost me. My Dad was a full professor, my Mom was a college instructor, my oldest brother was a college professor, and my next oldest brother had a PhD and thought he would head that way, but ended up in industry. I have two graduate degrees myself and have taught both college and university courses. But I cannot support nonsense from the “academic” world; “they” have become a joke and out of touch.