The girls school where girls are banned

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Link: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/par...92b1a80ec0af6e
Source (subscription required): http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...e15d3972820d21

A LEADING Sydney girls’ school’s decision to eliminate gender-specific terms from its teachers’ vocabularies has prompted calls for sackings and government intervention at the exclusive institution.

Teachers at the prestigious northwest Sydney school, Cheltenham Girls High School, have been asked to stop referring to students as “girls”, “ladies” and “women”, and use only gender-neutral language, The Daily Telegraph today reported.

The request was put to teachers at a staff meeting earlier this year discussing the implementation of the Safe Schools anti-bullying program, the newspaper reports.

It was suggested to teachers that by using such language they could be seen to be breaking the law and could be at risk of being sued by LGBTI students.

[Shaede]

I mean.. this is a bit too far right? Am I the only one thinking that? When are we just going to cut to the chase and just refer to everyone as organisms? "Good morning organisms! Get out your textbooks and turn to chapter 5".

[Nafu0]

Reading all the way to the end is hard.

In an interview with Macquarie Radio, the Minister confirmed there was a meeting at the school reminding teachers of discriminatory language and denied it was connected to Safe Schools.
“I don’t think there’s anything improper about that,” he said.
A spokesman for the NSW Department of Education told news.com.au gender-specific terms would still be used by teachers at the school.
“Gender-specific terms will continue to be used by Cheltenham Girls’ High School when referring to students.

[Forgettable]

It's hard to believe this debate/argument/discussion (or whatever you want to call it) is even happening. If you're at an all girls school, what are you? A girl, obviously. If you don't identify as that, then maybe don't go to that school.

[PC2]

It was suggested to teachers that by using such language they could be seen to be breaking the law and could be at risk of being sued by LGBTI students.

Is this a joke? It may be nice to call people based on how they identify, but people have a right to free expression, nobody should be forced into verbally recognizing your label.

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I mean.. this is a bit too far right? Am I the only one thinking that? When are we just going to cut to the chase and just refer to everyone as organisms? "Good morning organisms! Get out your textbooks and turn to chapter 5".

I don't even see anything wrong with calling everyone something neutral if I'm honest, but I don't know what's wrong with gendered terms either. I just don't see what the point is in changing.

[endersblade]

I mean.. this is a bit too far right? Am I the only one thinking that? When are we just going to cut to the chase and just refer to everyone as organisms? "Good morning organisms! Get out your textbooks and turn to chapter 5".

You aren't the only one. This is fucking ridiculous.

[Manabomb]

Is this a joke? It may be nice to call people based on how they identify, but people have a right to free expression, nobody should be forced into verbally recognizing your label.

So why should anyone forcibly accept your, or anyone elses' label then? Because it's at the behest of society, or because it's simply a language of convenience? If you want to go all philosophical, you might want to avoid using round table arguments.

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I don't even see anything wrong with calling everyone something neutral if I'm honest, but I don't know what's wrong with gendered terms either. I just don't see what the point is in changing.

The problem with gendered terms is that you have a subsets of subsets of minorities of minorities screaming at the top of their lungs to push their one sided, single perspective narrative without any recognition or realization that there are other perspectives, ideas and ways things like this could be implemented.

It doesn't matter who these people are, these one track minds are always going to show the worst in an otherwise noteworthy cause.

[PC2]

So why should anyone forcibly accept your, or anyone elses' label then? Because it's at the behest of society, or because it's simply a language of convenience? If you want to go all philosophical, you might want to avoid using round table arguments.

Of course they shouldn't be forced to, it should be their choice. If they need to communicate with me they really don't need to know my sexual desires.

[Amerrol]

In an interview with Macquarie Radio, the Minister confirmed there was a meeting at the school reminding teachers of discriminatory language and denied it was connected to Safe Schools.
“I don’t think there’s anything improper about that,” he said.
A spokesman for the NSW Department of Education told news.com.au gender-specific terms would still be used by teachers at the school.
“Gender-specific terms will continue to be used by Cheltenham Girls’ High School when referring to students.

"He said." Well of course a CIS shitlord misogynist would say that. He is literally raping them by referring to them as girls.

[PC2]

No they don't.

You just disagreed with me. Should you be put in jail because of it?

[Paperfox]

How about "Carbon based life form", or "ugly bags of mostly water"?

There are some who you can never make happy, so why bother trying?

[Gref]

It's hard to believe this debate/argument/discussion (or whatever you want to call it) is even happening. If you're at an all girls school, what are you? A girl, obviously. If you don't identify as that, then maybe don't go to that school.

Shocking right?

[Knaar]

So if they cant call them girls, what are they calling them?

"Hey you, Human, can i talk to you for a sec?"
"Hello bipeds!"

[Darkeon]

In before the usual suspects saying stuff along the lines of "What is SJW? This never happens outside the deepest corners of Internet lol, y u fearmongering?"

[purebalance]

So why should anyone forcibly accept your, or anyone elses' label then? Because it's at the behest of society, or because it's simply a language of convenience? If you want to go all philosophical, you might want to avoid using round table arguments.

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The problem with gendered terms is that you have a subsets of subsets of minorities of minorities screaming at the top of their lungs to push their one sided, single perspective narrative without any recognition or realization that there are other perspectives, ideas and ways things like this could be implemented.

It doesn't matter who these people are, these one track minds are always going to show the worst in an otherwise noteworthy cause.

Yes because society determines those things. Don't like it? Go be a hermit. We shouldn't have to keep changing things for a .01% of the population.

[Hattai]

Fuck I hate my country sometimes.

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So if they cant call them girls, what are they calling them?

"Hey you, Human, can i talk to you for a sec?"
"Hello bipeds!"

When was the last time you explicitily said "Excuse me, Girl/Woman"?

[Igi]

New addition to my "top 10 fucked up things I've seen in my life" list.

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Also, OT : People can't read and put BS bait, as per usual.

Read the whole article, boys.