‘Down the rabbit hole’ with the purple penguins of gender inclusivity
http://twitter.com/#!/Defender121/status/520050566144094208
We’re not making this up.
Down the rabbit hole… "Teachers Told to Call Kids ‘Purple Penguins’ Because ‘Boys & Girls’ Isn't Inclusive" http://t.co/xa1Rb5FFJ6
— Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) October 9, 2014
In postmodernism's greatest triumph to date, "he/she" has passed "ze/zer" & become "purple penguins." http://t.co/h3mabNpSDA @KCTimpf
— Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) October 8, 2014
@HeyTammyBruce One could not make this stuff up.
— LibertarianLukeكاف (@LibertarianLuke) October 9, 2014
National Review Online: School Told to Call Kids ‘Purple Penguins’ Because ‘Boys and Girls’ Is Not Inclusive to Transgender
A Nebraska school district has instructed its teachers to stop referring to students by “gendered expressions” such as “boys and girls,” and use “gender inclusive” ones such as “purple penguins” instead.
“Don’t use phrases such as ‘boys and girls,’ ‘you guys,’ ‘ladies and gentlemen,’ and similarly gendered expressions to get kids’ attention,” instructs a training documentgiven to middle-school teachers at the Lincoln Public Schools.
“Create classroom names and then ask all of the ‘purple penguins’ to meet on the rug,” it advises.
It gets worse.
If teachers still find it “necessary” to mention that genders exist at all, the document states, they must list them as “boy, girl, both or neither.”
Furthermore, it instructs teachers to interfere and interrupt if they ever hear a student talking about gender in terms of “boys and girls” so the student can learn that this is wrong.
@HeyTammyBruce I hope some parent complains that the name is cruel to penguins.
— We are screwed44™ (@PornPops69) October 9, 2014
@HeyTammyBruce can't call them children either, world gone mad. How did we become such pansies? Where are the John Wayne's of the world?
— Sandy Hamilton (@sandy_hamilton) October 9, 2014
"The document also warns against asking students to 'line up as boys or girls,'…”" http://t.co/1xMLj71vLv
— Jimmie (@jimmiebjr) October 9, 2014
No other problems in society we should be focusing on? Progressives are so relevant when it comes to problem solving http://t.co/whcjWFRS9M
— RJ Moeller (@rjmoeller) October 8, 2014
Calling kids purple penguins instead boys and girls. I think I've officially seen every dumb leftist idea ever.
— RB (@RBPundit) October 8, 2014
How absurd. 🙁 http://t.co/zbSBFRYR55
— mandy carr (@mandycarr7) October 9, 2014
I saw Purple Penguins open for Profoundly Stupid in 2014.
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) October 8, 2014
@andrewklavan @kctimpf I have MORE THAN A FEW sexually non-descript names for those school board members but it DOES involve an "orifice"!
— fred dorward (@ferdistan) October 8, 2014
Heh.
Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/10/09/down-the-rabbit-hole-with-the-purple-penguins-of-gender-inclusivity/