{"id":426,"date":"2015-09-15T23:53:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T23:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2015-09-16T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T12:28:25","slug":"academic-silliness-university-of-tennessee-encourages-use-of-ze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/15\/academic-silliness-university-of-tennessee-encourages-use-of-ze\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Silliness: University of Tennessee encourages use of &#8220;Ze&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><em>The University of Tennessee has asked its teachers and students to start using gender neutral pronouns in a bid to create \u201cinclusivity\u201d within the campus.<\/p>\n<p>Among the so-called gender neutral singular pronouns are: \u201cze,\u201d \u201chir,\u201d \u201chirs,\u201d \u201cxe,\u201d \u201cxem,\u201d and \u201cxyr.\u201d The said pronouns are encouraged for use within the campus, while gender binary pronouns such as \u201che\u201d and \u201cshe\u201d are discouraged.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/university-of-tennessee-uses-gender-neutral-pronouns-144482\/\">Christian Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I should note that the proposal was withdrawn after public ridicule and protests from the state legislature, such as this:<br \/>\n<em>A letter written by state Rep. Susan Lynn, R\u2013Mt. Juliet, has 31 co-authors, including the speaker pro tempore of the House, and it condemns the policy as political indoctrination. <\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lebanondemocrat.com\/article\/state-government\/707191\">The Lebanon Democrat<\/a><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Tennessee has asked its teachers and students to start using gender neutral pronouns in a bid to create \u201cinclusivity\u201d within the campus. Among the so-called gender neutral singular pronouns are: \u201cze,\u201d \u201chir,\u201d \u201chirs,\u201d \u201cxe,\u201d \u201cxem,\u201d and \u201cxyr.\u201d The said pronouns are encouraged for use within the campus, while gender binary pronouns such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[232,231,233],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-academia","tag-political-correctness","tag-university-of-tennessee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}