Students lose marks for using ‘he’: Universities penalise undergraduates for ‘offensive’ gender phrases in essays and exams

Our thanks to Mike P for this. The start of the piece:

Essays will be marked down unless they use ‘gender-sensitive language’, students at a British university have been told.

Many universities are already advising students and staff not to use ‘gender-offensive’ terms such as ‘he’ or ‘she’ to describe people that could be either male or female.

And terms such as ‘mankind’, ‘manpower’ and ‘manmade’ are frowned upon by academics if used in essays.

But now the school of social science at the University of Hull has gone one step further by threatening to deduct marks from students for using such phrases.

A document sent to students reads: ‘Language is important and highly symbolic.

‘In your essay I thus expect you to be aware of the powerful and symbolic nature of language and use gender-sensitive formations.

‘Failure to use gender-sensitive language will impact on your mark.’

As always, passive-aggressive feminist ‘academics’ who are parasites on taxpayers, mainly men – they’d be utterly unemployable outside academia – are surely behind this effort at outlawing thoughtcrime.

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9 thoughts on “Students lose marks for using ‘he’: Universities penalise undergraduates for ‘offensive’ gender phrases in essays and exams

  1. A document sent to students reads: “Language is important and highly symbolic”.

    Hence the decades long, sustained and systematic assault on its essential foundations, grammar and vocabulary. There was a time when ‘educated’ people knew that the first person neuter pronoun takes the masculine form in English and always has done, and were they educated in Old English they’d know that man means a person and not a male, but then they’re not educated these days; they’re simply conditioned to make certain approved responses, and few of them have read 1984.

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    • I only discovered that 5 years ago when I read Gwynne’s Grammar. We were never taught it in school at any time between 1984 and 1997, I presume due to the so-called progressive movement’s interference. I dread to think what my mind would be like if I’d attended school between New Labour’ss rise to power and now.

      We need a Trump-style figure to drain the swamp, which would involve banning these indoctrination courses like gender studies.

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      • Exactly. Who is our Trump? Someone who once wore a T-Shirt saying ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ can only be a transitional figure – and the shorter, the better.

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      • Be careful with words like transitional: you could be accused of ‘hate’ crime, or speech or thought or something.

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  2. Surely these kids can take legal action against this? The sociology department is effectively saying there’s no such thing as male and female, which is untrue.

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  3. Apparently words like Motherland and motherboard are still allowed, so it’s official: followers of the feminism religion now control sociology departments.

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  4. I attended two lectures recently where the lecturers, both female, unselfconsciously used ‘he’ throughout their talks. But then, they were both continental European. A lot of this nonsense started through the now-forgotten Dale Spender’s ‘Man-made language’ garbage book published in 1982.

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