Harvard Crimson Issues Correction for Using Pronoun, Says Only Proper Nouns Appropriate
Pity the poor Harvard Crimson.
When reporting from that bastion of political correctness, Harvard, it is quite easy to inadvertently wander onto the dangerous shoals of thought crimes. Such was the case when the Crimson used a (GASP!) gendered pronoun to describe a new member of the Harvard faculty and was subsequently forced to issue a correction for their heinous misdeed:
CORRECTION: July 3
An earlier version of this article used the pronoun "she" to refer to Vanidy "Van" Bailey, the newly appointed director of bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer student life. In fact, Bailey prefers not to be referred to by any gendered pronoun.
Fortunately the Harvard Crimson story has been cleansed of the offensive gendered pronoun so it is now safe for children and other living things to read it:
Harvard has appointed Vanidy “Van” Bailey as the College’s first permanent director of bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer student life. Bailey, the assistant director for education at the University of California, San Diego, will assume the new position on July 16.
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
Call out the Thought Police!
RELAPSE ALERT!
After correcting the introduction, this article relapsed into political incorrectness by again using forbidden gendered pronouns. Here is the proof of the disgusting thought crimes:
Last April, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds announced her intention to hire a full-time staffer dedicated to serving the BGLTQ community on campus.
In a statement to students, Hammonds said that the decision was based on recommendations made by the BGLTQ Working Group, which she created in October 2010 to evaluate BGLTQ experiences and needs at the College.
...During the search for a new director, Emily J. Miller, a student at the Divinity School, served as interim coordinator. She oversaw the opening of the College’s first Office of BGLTQ Student Life, in Boylston Hall, in March.
How dare you, Nathalie R. Miraval! The author of this politically offensive article must now be taken to Room 101 for an intensive debriefing. Remember!
Not a She.
Not a He.
Not even an It.
But all three!
She/he/it.
Hmmm..... Or maybe not.
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Shee-it!
Submitted by bobsmom on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 7:34pm.
There, there's a new gendered pronoun that has a variety of meanings. Feel free to choose your definition as pertains to the person, and the grievance discussed above.
Nailed
Submitted by IndianaCarl on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 9:17pm.
That's exactly what I was going to use to describe this person.
God Bless the U.S.A. and the troops that defend her and her Constitution.
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Submitted by stratman on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 7:36pm.
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Can we use the word 'it'
Submitted by Soldat44 on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 7:47pm.
Can we use the word 'it' instead? Pretty neutral I think.
CORRECTION: 'it' is right out! Poor thing. She's nobody...nothing...in fact, (she's) not even there...No identity whatsoever.
How does (she) apply for a job? Wait (she) doesn't need a job. (She) is the director of 'something' whatever.
How about: "what's it"
Submitted by needle on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 11:21pm.
How about: "what's it"
++++++++++
Really! Considering what these freaks are up to, it is ridiculous that they should expect respect. Who should care? PC - my alimentary canal.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
➚ It's a "shim"
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 7:42pm.
Instead of "bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer" why not ABS (Anything But Straight)?
I like the way you think CA.
Submitted by Soldat44 on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 7:48pm.
I like the way you think CA.
CA
Submitted by LinTaylor on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 9:07pm.
We could always use the terms Futurama came up with for a hermaphrodite space creature - "shklee" and "shklirr".
LMFAO!
Submitted by Timothy H on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 9:54pm.
CA that is hilarious!
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein
And for blonde:Some days it just doesn't pay to chew through the restraint. -Timothy H
Oh yay!
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 11:37pm.
My favorite tag line, evah!!!!!
I am going to miss those after we live through the Apocalypse.
Thanks, Timothy. As you know, it ALWAYS makes me smile. For quite a while. :)
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I'm not planning on living through it.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 1:44pm.
I'm going home! :-)
Readers are encouraged to use
Submitted by tcm14 on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 7:52pm.
Readers are encouraged to use the word "douchebag" in place of the word "she" when referring to Bailey...
In order for it to be a "proper noun"...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 1:45pm.
....do you have to capitalize it?
Political Correctness is a mental disorder
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 7:59pm.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
IT IS PAT
Submitted by Calypso Jones on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 8:19pm.
Life imitates Art.
Grammar
Submitted by pgrossjr on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 8:32pm.
Apparently the rules ban the use of caps in titles. Must have taken a while to etch all this "director of bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer student life" on her office door.
And the Ivies wonder why we out her in flyover country no longer hold much regard for an Ivy League degree. This stuff isn't the edgy hip antics we expect from higher education but the silliness that one would think started as a frat house joke.
I was trying to think of
Submitted by ant on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 8:34pm.
I was trying to think of something humorous or, at least workable, pertaining to inventing a new pro-noun...but then realized, I really don't want to start thinking in libtard terms, let them traipse through their own little mental circle of hell and leave me out of it.
I have a solution
Submitted by mustango on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 8:38pm.
Let us simply never refer to this person at all. It's really the only safe way, and probably what is wanted anyway.
cajun is confused*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 8:51pm.
If "it" is not a he or she then what are the "other" choices? I studied biology, genetics, and history. No where do I recall other "designations". So, does this mean we need to change the constitution so these "people' can vote, get married...etc,,,,??? Or do we concentrate on behavioral and psychological attributes rather than biological when searching for "class distinctions"??? The world today so does confuse this cajun!
Gender nootrul
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 9:34pm.
Back in the 80s, in the hey-day of the second wave of language de-andrification, some seriously grave Birkenstockers proposed using 'co' as the personal pronoun to use when you didn't know the gender (i.e., the sex) of the antecedent noun ("everybody will take co's books," etc.). IKYN.
That idea lasted about as long as it took for the newspaper to fade and turn yellow.
Maybe we should use "duh" for people who 'self-select' gender-nootrul pronouns:
When asked about the new birector, Vanidy Bailey, potential BLT-GQ candidate said, "I really like duh. I think duh will make a good birector for the center and under duh's birection, all the BLTs and GQs will enjoy a great outing at Harvard."
Is it April 1?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 8:51pm.
The newly appointed director of the BLT-GQ office at Hah-vahd is, um, Vanidy Queer, like the magazine?
BTW (no, no, not bilateral, transaxle wimyn), I realized a long time ago that the cancer of prejudice against alternatively-lifestyled people is more pernicious that even they thought. It has penetrated (um, not a double extender, please) even into chemistry.
Why does everyone say "carbon dioxide" instead of "carbon bioxide"? Are they afraid of reminding people of the vast number of bi-molecules in the world? Is this a conspiracy of the hetero-norming culture? (One small glimmer of hope: the Androgenic Globular Warming crowd is adamant in blaming the imminent death of the planet on, ahem, carbon Dioxide, which at least spares the BLT-GQ folks of gilt by association.
ok CO2*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 8:54pm.
*snicker*
So are you saying that this is a typical liberal MO of "redefinition" to avoid personal responsibility"? THAT I can understand....LOL
I propose the non-gendered
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 9:49pm.
I propose the non-gendered pronoun "sheit".
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
I am convinced
Submitted by Chaitealover on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 10:07pm.
that the liberal push, 20+ years ago, to not differentiate between boy children and girl children in the selection of toys, has resulted in adults like this one. Vanidy doesn't know whether Vanidy is a he or a she because Vanidy's parents never explained that there really is a difference.
Chai
I understand some species of
Submitted by ant on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 10:12pm.
I understand some species of snail are bi-gendered ( I guess when you travel so slowly, it pays to procreate with any member of your species you meet.) Maybe we can call it 'snail'.
Groupers are transsexual, not bi
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 11:36pm.
Groupers have the ability to change sex, depending upon environmental factors.
Hey.....whatever. Some people want to be like a fin fish or mollusks.
Okay, I'll stop now. We are truly living in bizarro world.
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No lie, Blonde
Submitted by ant on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 9:03pm.
Just saw a story about a caucasian boy who 'felt' he was a Korean trapped in a white boy's body......this new 'congenital condition' had a name much longer than even LGBT, but featured 'trans-ethnic'...seriously.
ant
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 9:07pm.
The boy should have identified as an African American. It would have helped him a lot in terms of getting into college and getting a job.
At least with trans-ethnic I don't have to worry about who is in the bathroom stall next to me.
So true
Submitted by ant on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 10:18pm.
For example, I rather be surprised on a date with a Cambodian girl that used to be French or something than a he/she/it. Now, I got myself to thinkin',.....maybe this was an elaborate ruse to pull a defense for Elizabeth Warren..."Hey, if she 'feels' Cherokee, she must be..".
The technical term for that is ...
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 9:17pm.
snail tail
How about Big B, for it
Submitted by pilgrim4jc on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 10:45pm.
How about Big B, for it neither looks like a man or woman?
Damn.
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 11:01pm.
No H/T.
A previous
Submitted by nolefan2 on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 7:04pm.
poster suggested "sh,i,t." I think that or "sheeit" will work fine. I have many friends named Pat so I'm not going to sully their name by associating it with this mental disorder.
"It" looks like...
Submitted by Jarhead68 on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 7:17pm.
...that crazy dike bitch that was on Hardcore Pawn one night.
LMAO! S-HE-IT aka SHe-it, say
Submitted by CommieJuice on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 10:34pm.
LMAO! S-HE-IT aka SHe-it, say it fast, she-it. Just like what Harrison Ford's character was saying in The Frisco Kid, but he would say it more like sheeeee-ittt.
I bet "it" doesn't hesitate
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 11:33pm.
I bet "it" doesn't hesitate to use "she" when attempting to scam government benefits or playing the victim.
"...Bailey prefers not to be
Submitted by richflanj on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 10:04am.
"...Bailey prefers not to be referred to by any gendered pronoun."
What she wants to be called is not relevant.
She IS a female, period. A deranged, stupid, abrasive, and irritating female, but a female none the less.
Why is "phe" so upset?
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 1:08pm.
I don't understand why "phe" (believe it or not, "phe" is the gender neutral pronoun invented by the The Female Sexuality Workshop at Brown University. Who in their right mind would adopt "pee" as a pronoun?) is so upset when someone else resorts to gender specific pronouns. Does "phe" actually think that others should follow "pher" self-imposed language requirements? That doesn't sound very "equal" to me. I though equality was the goal? I guess some are more equal than other, especially when it comes to "phe."
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Perfect. "It" it is. Works on
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 1:35pm.
Perfect.
"It" it is. Works on so many levels.
Do non-gender confused people get to chose?
Submitted by bikeromany on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 1:39pm.
Do non-gender confused people get to chose how they're referred to? For example, President Bush? Can he ask for a redo on some of the things he's been called on their pages?
I have no problem with people being whomever (or whatever) they desire to be, as long as it doesn't infringe on anyone else's rights. But leave the language alone! Some of use still believe in clarity of thought and speech.
More fascism from the left -
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 1:57pm.
"YOU must change the entire language of several nations in order to conform to my unique demands."
I only have two words for this.....person.....the first one is a verb imperative first person singular and the second is a personal possessive pronoun, accusative second person singular (for all of you who have studied Greek).
How's that, you Ivy League douche?