any news on all the people at that school using “Dr” improperly who didn’t get fired?
Vary refused to go by the title “Ms”, and it was eventually decided that she would be fired – despite Florida’s ongoing teacher shortage crisis.
In an article that is focusing on gender identity, did Pink News mess up Vary’s pronouns or am I missing something?
Two months later still not fixed. Yep, they messed up.
Is Mx. pronounced “Mix?”
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Guess this is why I like college. I just call everybody Professor and not risking strange looks or offending anybody.
Funnily enough, I think this depends on country. I’m in Australia and I’ve heard lecturers ask the class not to call them Professor since that is a title within the University (I’m guessing something similar to Captain in an Army). I think most couldn’t care less, but I’ve had 1 or 2 ask in the first class not to use that title. So you can’t win.
Yes, it makes nonbinary people sound like rappers and I’m here for it
(Plus every NB person I know has a name like “blue” or “sock”, which makes it especially fun)
How do they arrive at such bold names? I’m so jealous and yet… Perhaps not as brave either. I’m a transfem she/her rather than nonbinary.
Yes
I’m all for gender-inclusive language and try to use it as much as possible (ie “mail person” instead of “mail man” and using “they” instead of defaulting to “he” when gender is unknown). But God am I tired of replacing everything with an X, haha.
I’d just call them “teacher [last name]” like how college professors tend to go by “professor [last name]” and call it a day.
Latinx is hated by the majority of Hispanic people because it’s unpronounceable in Spanish, so you can drop that one.
(Am Hispanic ftr, despise the term)
Ok but it’s not a Spanish term. Do they also complain about all the other English words that exist?
Not that I support latinx, but that’s a pretty lame excuse to be against it
Nah, Latino is a word that springs from spanish. It isn’t actually an English word, it just got borrowed.
So, not only was the word co-opted from Latino people, the crazy crackers decided that they could ignore the objections of Latinos to the change to their words. That’s as opposed to the not-crazy crackers that know better than to fuck around with someone else’s internal labels
Seriously my dude, if you don’t know any latinos well enough to ask about this kind of thing, you’re missing out. My best friend’s husband is Nicaraguan, and he’ll do this half hour long rant in spanglish about it that is impressive in both scope and venom. And you don’t even wanna hear his mom go off about it! She gets mean lol.
If this does not violate some anti-discrimination laws that you are doing law wrong. I am fairly certain this would not be legal in my country.
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Theyre boundary testing like all sociopaths inevitably do.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts prohibits discrimination based on sex in matters of employment. They can dictate what teachers teach, but this should be a slam dunk under federal law.
The argument is going to be that it prohibits discrimination based on sex and not gender
History will not be kind to Florida
I’m currently visiting a friend in Florida, and frankly, the present isn’t too kind to Florida either.
History
I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to teach that in Florida.
Only in the context of the truth.
