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Allison Pearson in the Telegraph

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terrylene · 05/04/2017 13:02

www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/wont-kowtowing-gender-neutral-brigade/

Does anyone know if she had anything useful to say about gender neutral? (It is behind a paywall. )

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whoputthecatout · 05/04/2017 13:27

She's feeling sorry for April Fool's Day. Says there's way too much competition out there. Commenting on Hull University's threat to dock marks for failure to use "gender sensitive language" in essays. She's then had a go at HSBC's absurd gender neutral titles (see other thread on here). Also Dyfed-Powys Police relaxing its uniform code to make life easier for transgender officers.

Then has a go at Cambridge University falling for "the tyranny of conformity". Claims she was told by one student that there are now pubs in town who ask "What's your pronoun?"

She sticks up for Jenni Murray and says her transgender friend agrees with Murray. Is concerned that universities and the police have "capitulated to a left-wing mindset that fancies itself uniquely enlightened, but is actually hateful and intolerant."

She says: "It is the role of a university to educate in the broadest sense, not to bow down before fashionable pieties."

"That outlook is shared by the majority of British people, who look on with mounting disbelief as minor verbal mis-steps by decent people are escalated into witch hunts. Academics and the police should represent the country that pays their wages, not kowtow to a thuggish, politically correct minority."

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