TalenLee
@TalenLee

In case you aren't aware, my mum and dad are both right-wingers in the vein of Australia. Mum's nicer about it, but dad's low key prone to saying racist shit, and he's never started a conversation about transphobia because I've made it pretty clear he doesn't want to hear me snap him off.

Which I have done in the past when he was passing opinons about Serena Williams, fwiw

Anyway, today dad brought me this story as I sat on his porch waiting for him to give me a lift home, about how 'woke' universities are going bonkers and how there's this big problem, because two teachers were fired from a university because they refused to use 'gender neutral language to refer to themselves.'

I thought: That's pretty weird, and it was genuinely interesting to me so I looked into it. I after all, work at a uni, and if that could happen to me, that would be worth knowing. It's not happening here, of course - my union at the uni recently got me dispensation for time off for gender affirming care, I do not think my uni is on the other side of this one - but is instead WESLEY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE in the US.

The issue is: These two teachers, named Reagan and Ash, in their signatures, put their pronouns. She/her and he/him. They have been doing this for years, because as gender ambiguous names are prone to get on the internet, they both got misgendered a lot. And they are again, teachers at a Christian College. They were fired because they had Pronouns In Bio, and all their coworkers went 'this is bullshit' and got mad at the uni.

My dad was bringing this up to go 'behold, these wokescolds,' without realising that he was showing me a news story about Christians knee-jerking and attacking one of the many, many examples of cis people needing pronouns and how much it sucks to be misgendered.

My dude, the ideology is coming from inside the house


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