{"id":73198,"date":"2020-01-30T08:10:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T14:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73198"},"modified":"2020-01-30T08:10:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T14:10:23","slug":"miseducation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73198","title":{"rendered":"Miseducation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>The University of Minnesota is going to be starting<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/university-of-minnesota-faculty-staff-to-undergo-lgbt-pronoun-training\/\"> mandatory pronoun training<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Faculty and staff at the University of Minnesota are gearing up to undergo pronoun training in order to make the campus a more welcoming environment for \u201ctransgender\u201d and \u201cnon-binary\u201d community members.<br>A university policy first floated in the summer of 2018 and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/university-of-minnesota-threatens-faculty-for-repeated-misuse-of-pronouns-in-new-policy\/\">recently finalized<\/a>\u00a0dictates that university employees \u201care expected to use the names, gender identities and pronouns specified to them by university members.\u201d Failing to abide by this policy \u201ccould result in discipline,\u201d according to the policy\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/policy.umn.edu\/operations\/genderequity-faq\">FAQ page.<\/a><br>Training for the new policy has begun,\u00a0<em>The Minnesota Daily\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mndaily.com\/article\/2020\/01\/n-faculty-and-staff-training-to-facilitate-new-gender-equity-policy\">reports<\/a>. The training program involves instructing staff and faculty in the new gender pronoun rules; those staff will then be \u201ctasked with working to educate their colleagues, helping them work through questions and mistakes.\u201d<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>There are really two responses to this.  Technically three, but &#8220;unquestioning acquiescence&#8221; is off the table. .  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Point out that this sort of thing is at best an unproductive and ultimately damaging diversion to someone&#8217;s mental illness, and at worst catering to someone&#8217;s attention-seeking<\/li><li>Tell U of M staff that my preferred pronouns are &#8220;His Highness \/ The Grand Admiral &#8220;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m leaning toward &#8220;B&#8221;.  Satire seems to be more useful these days. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Minnesota is going to be starting mandatory pronoun training: Faculty and staff at the University of Minnesota are gearing up to undergo pronoun training in order to make the campus a more welcoming environment for \u201ctransgender\u201d and \u201cnon-binary\u201d community members.A university policy first floated in the summer of 2018 and\u00a0recently finalized\u00a0dictates that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73202,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73198\/revisions\/73202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}