OmniscienceFrog
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Oh, the humanity!And the humanity, empathy and everything else an old white dude is clueless about.
And you're right. I have no empathy for the woke BS.
Oh, the humanity!And the humanity, empathy and everything else an old white dude is clueless about.
This is where I am as well. I'm certainly OK with calling anyone whatever they wish to be called, but I don't have the ability at work to think back to what pronouns they have in their email signature when addressing them in person. It also seems that the high 90 percent of people who have pronouns in their signatures do it primarily to show "support" for those who have non traditional pronouns.I guess I look at it like this. People can identify however they like or chose, but in an academic setting, why would a professor, who likely has numerous- maybe 1000’s of students- be expected to learn the pronouns of all students? How would that even be possible? It seems like an unrealistic expectation IMO.
I'm sure many of y'all will find this petty and not worth posting about, but I personally found it so ridiculously stupid that TCU deserves to be called out publicly.
For as long as I can remember, it's been a fun tradition to get your wedding picture published in TCU Magazine with all of your TCU friends doing the "go frogs" hand sign, especially if you marry a fellow Horned Frog. I know my wife and I had our picture published with all the TCU alumni that attended our wedding, and we still have a copy of that magazine at our house.
My friend from TCU got married this past year and has a really cool picture with her, her husband, their tcu wedding guests, and super frog who made an appearance.
HOWEVER, TCU Magazine refuses to publish the picture because the wedding "coincided with the pandemic." How scheissing stupid is that? Just mind numbing. Shame on you TCU Magazine and all those involved with your idiocy.
"But why are they so quick to jump onboard? Because things have changed. Being gay, as I’ve mentioned, was once a stigma. Coming out took courage. Nowadays, being part of this relatively new alphabet community—which began its history with L for lesbian, G for gay, and B for bisexual, but has long since left gay men and women in the dust—is considered cool.For the few posters that say what is the big deal? Well, here is another example of ridiculousness. It has become comical.
Good read and interesting perspective from the author that happens to be gay."But why are they so quick to jump onboard? Because things have changed. Being gay, as I’ve mentioned, was once a stigma. Coming out took courage. Nowadays, being part of this relatively new alphabet community—which began its history with L for lesbian, G for gay, and B for bisexual, but has long since left gay men and women in the dust—is considered cool.
Cool! Being gay was never cool.
Where will all this gender narcissism lead? Nothing remains cool forever: that’s the nature of cool. The pendulum never stops swinging. Eventually it will swing back. There will be a blowback against all this. And it’ll hit gay people like me, too. And any gay people who have encouraged this mischief will deserve what they get."
https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/07/gender-narcissism/
Bunch of snowflakes around here. Who the living cares!!
Not one person in my world or in any business that I deal with gives a crap about anything TCU but sports.
Do you people really sit around and talk about this outside this board?
I sat next to two TCU faculty at a bar while watching a Frog football game a year or so back. They were pleasant at first, but then became drunk and incredibly obnoxious towards opposing fans in the bar. I moved my seat and actually apologized for their behavior to others seated nearby. BTW - in addition to their TCU gear, they wore Bernie pins.The photo thing is not surprising in the least. As I mentioned in several baseball threads, a conservative faculty member told me the reason baseball capacity was limited all season was almost solely due to liberal faculty basically threatening to revolt if TCU didn’t continue to treat COVID like Ebola.
Gender and sex are not the same thing, but I don’t expect many here to understand that. So by all means, continue with your misguided outrage against diversity and inclusion.
This is where I am as well. I'm certainly OK with calling anyone whatever they wish to be called, but I don't have the ability at work to think back to what pronouns they have in their email signature when addressing them in person. It also seems that the high 90 percent of people who have pronouns in their signatures do it primarily to show "support" for those who have non traditional pronouns.
The one place it was helpful was when I had to refer to someone in an email, and her non-English name left me with no idea of her gender. After a bit of struggling I remembered that she might have pronouns in the signature so I went back and found them...
A friend and fellow alum from my undergraduate days used to write letters to the editor of the TCU Magazine complaining about the increasingly leftward tilt of the publication and the school in general but they weren't always published. So, he took the matter up personally with Boschini but to no seeming effect.
And then, guess what happened? In case some of you haven't noticed, the magazine no longer even has a "Letters to the Editor" section! They simply got rid of it so that "nowhere is heard a discouraging word" about the school and alums can no longer complain that their letters aren't being published.
But if eliminating the "Letters to the Editor" section was intended to mollify my friend, it didn't work. He's a wealthy and incredibly generous individual who had donated to TCU heavily in the past but he stopped contributing to the school entirely at that point and took TCU out of his will. I applauded his decision but told him it was long overdue.
The TCU Magazine, much like the university as a whole, I'm afraid, has become nothing but a "woke joke."
Gender and sex are not the same thing, but I don’t expect many here to understand that. So by all means, continue with your misguided outrage against diversity and inclusion.
But Gender and Sex are the same thing for 99.99% of all people. Libs declaring their pronouns to pander to the .01% is ridiculous.Gender and sex are not the same thing, but I don’t expect many here to understand that. So by all means, continue with your misguided outrage against diversity and inclusion.