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Perhaps they could go on University Challenge and get some questions right?

Catgender
Surely someone should put in an official request that litter trays should be available in all toilets?

Bristol has literally gone insane. How on earth will they live this down when everyone comes to their senses?

Shit it autocorrected my punctuation smiley into a actual emoji. Never mind

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I attempted a cat but it was a bit difficult.

It's so ageist, lots of older people don't have smart phones or even know what an emoji is. Can they not join in this nonsense? How has a well respected university been reduced to this? It makes zero sense.

So how did people acknowledge their "true and innate" identity before emojis existed?

Theimpossiblegirl you'd hope not. I'm not to sure that some teenagers are good at thinking things through though. On DDS Zoology course,there is a vegan who told DD that she wasn't going to dissect anything other than fish. This on a course where the students are marked on their dissection techniques seems a bit silly, especially as they have been warned that once creatures enter the lab,they become lab equipment and they are not to eat the lab equipment.

Dear Lord! A lot of DDS contemporaries wanted to study veterinary science at Bristol,as apparently,it's well regarded. I didn't not think that any of them got a place as it's so competitive ( mercifully for them).I can just imagine the faces of farm bred vet students being told to take this absolute crap seriously.

I work at the University of Bristol and have heard nothing of this. We had a request a while ago to consider putting our pronouns on our email signature but it wasn't compulsory (I certainly have no intention of doing it).

This is exactly why everyone, everywhere should always say,
"I don't need to know your pronouns because I don't use third person pronouns".

The webpage adds: "For example, someone who is catgender may use nya/nyan pronouns."...The word nyan is Japanese for "meow"

Nya/nyan means something quite different in English. Ever heard a kid chanting "Nya-nyan-nya-nya-nyan"? More commonly spelled "Ner-ner-ner-ner-ner".

People are being mocked and they cannot see it.

Where are the grown-ups?

My Dc at Bristol have no meaningful contact with any real life teaching staff anyway as they have declined to come out from behind their computer screens snd just press ‘go’ on the lecture they recorded last year, so maybe they should all rename themselves after F key functions or something.

There's also this:

"The webpage adds: "For example, someone who is catgender may use nya/nyan pronouns."

Catgender, it says, is someone who "strongly identifies" with cats or other felines and those who "may experience delusions relating to being a cat or other feline". The word nyan is Japanese for "meow"."

So - the webpage literally says if someone identifies as "catgender" this may be because they are experiencing delusions. And yet academic staff are still expected to humour this and refer to them as the Japanese word for "meow/meowself". If they get it "wrong" they are supposed to "thank the person for correcting you, apologise swiftly, and use the correct pronouns going forward" - and one suspects they are at risk of being reported if they don't oblige.

WTF is it coming to if a university is requiring this?!

I would let them get on with it. The more they make gender about something other than sex related the more we can reclaim relevant words for their actual meaning.

What an absolute load of rubbish. What sane adult could write that policy with a straight face?

I read things like this & start to wonder, who’s really behind all this, whats the reasons, end goals etc. Are foreign powers pushing it to cause dissent in other countries? Russell Group Unis heavily funded by China www.spectator.co.uk/article/calls-for-universities-to-declare-china-funding

Well as a working class thicko who didn't get to university because of having too great a time in the 6th form instead of studying (oops) I think this is a right pile of steaming shite and I'm right glad I went to t' university of life instead 😊

This directs to a webpage by LGBTA Wiki, which says these are used by those who feel their gender is beyond the male or female binary, and lists "emoji pronouns" as an example.

Fine, you want to use specific pronouns to describe yourself, go ahead. But why should I? Why should anyone else?

Imagine a Turkish person for whom English is her second language, insisting that English speakers only ever refer to her using Turkish pronouns. Justification being that she thinks of herself as Turkish and she thinks in Turkish.

Nonsense.

The diversity person at BU has a fucking insane amount of power. Or a wicked sense of humour.

Fuck me, the world is absolutely hideous in so many regards right now.

Why do people feel the need to do the neo pronouns thing?

Neo pronouns are just such utter bollocks. In the end, we are all human, all male or female, including anyone who may have a DSD. Ultimately we are all either he or she, regardless of how we might feel about ourselves. I genuinely struggle to understand how this has got such traction.

Using a emoji as ID when talking about someone from a device? Sort of like having a sign name in sign language?
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I don't know whether to 😂 or 😢 as for 🐱🐾🐈🐾🐾😺🐈🐾😹🐾🐈 that's barking

Oh the fucking shame. An actual university.