Opinion of extreme 'sensitivity' measures taken by academia

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

While I do make some use of the Spivak pronoun set (third person plurals minus the starting th) in some writing, I think using anything other than third person plurals in the singular as a general use method for dealing with the lack of neuter singular in English is loony. At least the Spivak set has the advantage of some of them (especially em) already having some colloquial use, tho not for gender neutral purposes.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Having said that, the suggested gender neutral pronouns are ham fisted, but maybe you should be asking people what they want to be called, before you start calling them? It only takes a few seconds. I'm sure you can all spare it.

Having been subjected to something like this, tho not so hamfisted as this, when I was a TA back in grad school, the motivation to encourage the use of gender neutral language is not for when speaking to or of specific people. Not even the most ardent of gender neutral advocates would say something like "When Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, zir worst mistake was using a private email server." Rather gender neutral language advocacy is about avoiding language like "I will be a swift witness against the wage earner in his wages." lest someone might get the impression that the speaker was referring to just male workers.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Save us from very long jokes with very bad punchlines. Ernesta

Normally when I tell people there is no 'a' in my name, that's not where they've placed it. Some people think it's important to put an a in Ernest, tho I'm not Wilde about the alternate spelling.