CU Boulder Pronoun identification selection

[Delfuego]

Ginsue for President!

[cstone]

Did someone say freaks?

[wctriumph]

They forgot "aho" for asshole.

It can't be that 10,000 students wanted this, had to be just a few. The tyranny of the few over the many, because ...

[Honey Badger282.8]

Well said, Ginsue. If pronouns and labels are too much, just use the individual's name.

[Aloha_Shooter]

All I can say after Ginsue's admonishment is ...

[Duman]

It takes a lot of courage, more courage than most, to live your life outside of current social norms.

[Bailey Guns]

I don't see people who can't decide what gender they are as courageous.

I see 18 year old kids kicking in doors in Fallujah as courageous.

Then again, as long as we're redefining everything else, might as well redefine "courage".

ETA: Look... I don't personally care that some choose to do things differently with their lives. Really. I just don't think they should get special treatment.

[CoGirl303]

I don't see people who can't decide what gender they are as courageous.

I see 18 year old kids kicking in doors in Fallujah as courageous.

Then again, as long as we're redefining everything else, might as well redefine "courage".

ETA: Look... I don't personally care that some choose to do things differently with their lives. Really. I just don't think they should get special treatment.

thats because you haven't had to walk a mile in their shoes.

Being different from societal norms is not easy. It's like being bullied in primary education school...only every day of your life. At work, in public, at the store, movies, amusement park, parking lots, sporting events, college...just because you don't fit everyone else's ideals of normal. You get gawked at, called names, sometimes chased to your car, assaulted, even raped or worse, you get murdered and have your body thrown in a dumpster...just for being different. These are all things the LGBT community has had happen to them and even today they continue to happen.

Courage comes in many, many different forms, not just in the form of military heroics.

Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman were very courageous in their work to free slaves.

First Responders are. A witness that steps up and does the right thing by testifying against a criminal is. A dog that saves a family from a burning house is.




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[Bailey Guns]

It's also because I haven't made certain life choices. I don't need to walk a mile in their shoes. Just like I don't need to try meth to know that meth is going to adversely affect my life. It's my opinion (not based on anything other than 57 years of life experience and interacting with people) that many people choose to be different. They want to make a statement...or draw attention to themselves. Fine. You have every right to do that (within obvious limitations, of course). But then don't complain when that attention you seek becomes negative attention. If someone chooses to be different that doesn't give them the right to have an easy life. Just like "normal" people aren't guaranteed an easy life. Choices have consequences for everyone.

I agree about courage coming in many forms and the example of a young soldier I used was just that...an example. It wasn't meant to be an all inclusive definition of the term.

There's a commercial that comes on one of the radio stations I listen to frequently about some young girl surfer that lost an arm to a shark attack. The moral of the story is she recovered and went back to surfing and the tag line for the end of the commercial is, "That's real courage." It's as if she saved the world or something because she lost an arm to a shark and started surfing again. I just don't see that as real courage. It's admirable she overcame such a traumatic event...good for her. But I honestly see that commercial as devaluing what I consider to be the meaning of the word 'courage'.

[CoGirl303]

But people don't "choose" to be gay, bi, lesbian or transgender. The only choice they made was to accept who they were, confront it and deal with it.




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