Robin might be described as…
I don’t know if this is real or not, but if it is, it’s…interesting.
The first thing I notice isn’t even about the stupid destructive ideology being shoved at children who are too young to judge it critically. The first thing I notice is the fact that there are multiple clunky mistakes in the very first question. 1. “Robin feels like he etc is” – yuck. Robin feels that he is or Robin feels as if he is. This is school, not the pub. 2. …”like he/she/they is” – yo! If you’re gonna be teaching kids the New Progressive Whatsit, how about not taking it for granted that the “he” comes first? How about mixing it up a little? How about putting the “she” first? It’s so typical – here’s this cutting-edge new ideology, that retains all the old stupid sexist habits feminists have been pointing out for generations. 3. “he/she/they is” – insert eye-roll here.
More broadly – what a pack of stupid questions. That third one – is the answer supposed to be “a woman”? “Cis”? “Straight”? “Cis and straight”?
More broadly still why the hell is anyone being taught this bullshit in school?
Unless of course it’s not real and none of this is being taught in school.
What the hell are female body parts/ male body parts? I thought they were bullshit in this new paradigm???
FAIL
Given that audio recording of the girls arguing with their teacher about catgirl, I’m going to guess real.
…a numpty.
…bisexual.
…conventional.
…a boy.
It’s real; here’s the link to the original Twitter thingy.
https://twitter.com/Urqhuart6/status/1679914168634179665
Last week I was invited to referee a paper by an editor of a journal that I was associated with (as author, editor of three special issues, member of the Editorial Board) for more than 40 years. The paper was relevant to my expertise, so I said yes. However, when I tried to download the PDF file I was faced with a demand (not optional) to answer a “diversity questionnaire”. I should have said right away that it was none of Elsevier’s business what I “identify as”, or what sort of person I spend my nights with. Foolishly, however, I answered their silly questionnaire, in which the first question asked if I was a man, a woman, or “other”. The other questions seemed mainly interested in my skin colour. When I was on the Editorial Board we selected potential reviewers on our perception (sometimes wrong, of course) of their knowledge of the subject, etc., never any nonsense about “diversity”. In retrospect I could have answered “other (giraffe)” for the first question, and “green” for my skin colour, but I didn’t think of that until afterwards. Anyway, I am planning to write to the handling editor revoking my agreement to review the paper, and emphasizing that in the future I won’t agree to review papers if doing so requires me to answer questionnaires that have nothing to do with my competence.
Good god.
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