For Every Whiny Millennial There Is An Enabling Adult

The University of Michigan distributed emails to their student body to inform them of the new University Designated Pronouns policy. Students were advised to fill out the pronoun by which they wish to be referred to on campus. The email suggested you consider “he, she, they, or ze”, un-phased by being an academic institution encouraging students to use made up words. The website used an inclusive fill-in the blank field rather than a drop-down menu allowing Michigan student prankster Grant Strobl to designate his pronoun as “His Majesty”. Also not a pronoun, but nobody at this University is taking syntax seriously, so why the fuck not.

Young Republican nerd Strobl basked in the glory of his prank. Not the first upstart to protest the inanity of pronouns gone wild on college campuses across the country. But certainly a solid Fox News symbol. Considering teachers and University staff face sanctions for not properly pronoun addressing students, Strobl’s been pressing the lunacy of political correctness and the quickly invented mythology of gender fluidity:

“Students have been calling me ‘His Majesty”, those that have read the story, and it really does illustrate the ridiculousness of the policy in ignoring the English language. It just creates more complexity, more difficulty for our society as a whole, and it goes against the university’s mission to pursue truth.”

Bingo. Perhaps Knits and Stitches down the block wants to enforce a designated pronoun policy out of respect for Terry, the androgynous check out person. But academic institutions are supposed to battle political liturgy in favor of truth. Half the schools have Veritas somewhere in their ancient emblems. There is no Latin for Designated Pronouns. Or Ze. For every spoiled brat there is a catering parent. For every self-important college punk, an indulgent administration. 

Political correctness is an arbitrary science. Good luck, U of M. I’d start putting everything in pencil.

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