The administration is starting to try and ban lots of words. The logical next step, of course, will be the banning of books, which should come within six months, I would guess. Obama still has a lot of destruction to do. :peeonobama:
Bizarre choice for 'Word of the Year'
'Male and female are so passé'
Published: 12 hours ago
President Obama’s recent directive that public schools must allow transgender students to use the opposite bathroom of their physical birth sex is part of a broader discussion about gender in America. Questions about who should go where have become federal civil rights issues. The definitions of gender are expanding on college campuses and in popular culture.
To understand the new notions that go beyond male and female, Full Measure’s Scott Thuman explored the new vocabulary of sex.
58 options
Non-binary. Cisgender. Pangender. The new names associated with gender options are confusing, so Thuman reached out to Mara
Quisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.
“A non-binary person is somebody who just believes that the binary – that is, that there’s just men and women and that men have to be a certain way and women have to be a certain way – that doesn’t work for them,” said Quisling.
Quisling is a transgender woman. “She” was born male and transitioned at age 40.
“For some people, those boxes aren’t real,” Quisling said. “Those boxes can’t constrain them, and they’ve look for new language to explain that.
Quisling estimates that as many as 4 to 5 million Americans identify as something other than the biological sex they were born into – a fraction of the population with an outsized representation in our pop culture. (“I’m the new normal,” says “Caitlyn” Jenner.)
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Companies are now coming out with “gender neutral” products such as clothing and perfume. On Facebook, one can select one of 58 genders.
Thuman spoke with college students who have embraced a new language to explain their gender identity. College campuses have been on a gender-bender for some time. Some universities offer guides which teach students how to use pronouns “respectfully,” and counsels students to “always ask what someone’s pronouns are.”
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http://www.wnd.com/files/2016/05/Sharyl-Attkisson-5-22-16-article-2-1.docx_.jpgAmerican University's pronoun guide
American University’s pronoun guide
Some students prefer “them/their/they” pronouns, since these words are neither male nor female. In fact, the American Dialect Society chose “they” as the “word of the year” in 2015, to be used by people “rejecting the traditional gender binary of he and she.”
This trend riles critics. Jay Nordlinger, senior editor of the conservative National Review, wrote: “The new pronouns are ugly and soulless, like robot language” and that “today’s obsession with sex, self and identity is terribly damaging.”
“What about ‘zhe’?” Thuman asked Quisling.
“Zhe is a gender-neutral pronoun,” said Quisling, “that was developed over the last couple decades that’s meant to be a substitute for either ‘he’ or she.'”
“So what do you say to those critics who look at what’s happening right now, and they say, ‘This is just political correctness run amuck’ or it’s silly?”
“No,” Quisling replied. “Political correctness is just respecting people, particularly in something that doesn’t matter to you, doesn’t hurt you, doesn’t impact you in any way. Why you would care whether somebody is transgender is sort of beyond me.”
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Although Quisling estimated the number of transgenders at 4 to 5 million Americans, he says the actual number is unknown for a couple of reasons. The federal government doesn’t survey for this as part of their census inquiry, for example. But perhaps the larger reason is there’s a big population of people out there who just aren’t comfortable being open with this information.
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http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/bizarre-choice-for-word-of-the-year/#6aRfJUYjaJJVyyf4.99quis·lingˈkwizliNG/
noun
noun: quisling; plural noun: quislings
a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country.
synonyms: collaborator, colluder, sympathizer; More
traitor, turncoat, backstabber, double-crosser, defector, Judas, snake in the grass, fifth columnist
"the allegations that her ex-husband acted as a quisling were ludicrous"
Her name is perfect for an Obama supporter.
