And now, another solution in search of a problem and this one ranks right up there on the stupid meter.
Texas Christian University will no longer use the term “freshman” for students who are in their first year at the school, with officials having decided that it’s not gender inclusive. Those students will now be known as “first-year students.” Junior Matt Gill, who’s part of the university’s team for implementing the change, “Just by speaking more inclusively, we are able to behave more inclusively as well.” He continued, “The more we are able to start referring to people on equal terms, the better off I think we will be in terms of reaching actual progress.”
But. graduate student Magy Mekhail, for one, was skeptical, “There are a lot of words that have ‘men’ in them. I don’t know, there’s a lot more TCU can do, to do inclusion, than just change the word ‘freshman.'” Other universities have made a similar change, including Yale, Penn State and the University of North Carolina.
If you use that train of thought how about manager? Manuscript? Or even woman for that matter? Surprised the feminists haven’t tackled “menstrual” yet! When is this stuff gonna stop?
(FOX News)