This seems like an act of revenge on the part of #KristiNoem because some of the tribes in South Dakota have banned her from their lands. Personally, I think the faculty members have a good case for violation of #FreeSpeech...
"The policy is billed by the board as a simple branding and communications policy. It came only months after Republican Gov. Kristi Noem sent a letter to the regents that railed against '#liberal ideologies' on college campuses and called for the board to ban #DragShows on campus and 'remove all references to preferred pronouns in school materials,' among other things."
By MARGERY A. BECK
Updated 5:40 PM EDT, May 24, 2024
"A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping #NativeAmerican employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes.
"Two University of South Dakota faculty members, Megan Red Shirt-Shaw and her husband, John Little, have long included their gender pronouns and tribal affiliations in their work email signature blocks. But both received written warnings from the university in March that doing so violated a policy adopted in December by the South Dakota Board of Regents.
"'I was told that I had 5 days to remove my tribal affiliation and pronouns,' Little said in an email to The Associated Press. 'I believe the exact wording was that I had ‘5 days to correct the behavior.’ If my tribal affiliation and pronouns were not removed after the 5 days, then administrators would meet and make a decision whether I would be suspended (with or without pay) and/or immediately terminated.'"
You know you could just... give... the money... to projects that need it. Like software libraries that ARE IN EVERYTHING.
No grants. Don't make tech nerds write grants.
Don't make the tech nerds hire grant nerds to write grants.
FFS don't fund research into this problem with a budget of double what it would take to SOLVE THE PROBLEM for a significant number of open source projects with code that is, again, IN EVERYTHING.
@dymaxion@akareilly I said it because people use loose, accidentally incorrect #grammar all the time, and I assumed that that's what was happening here, because the fact that, "writing grants," is apparently a commonly-used shorthand for, "writing applications/proposals for grants," is one that I was not aware of and is counter-intuitive.
It is indeed funny that I sort of ended up trying to correct someone on a subject that they know much more about than I, but again, the apparent mistake was grammatical, which normally means that anyone who can read is qualified to speak on it. And I assumed that an entire profession's worth of people wouldn't agree to put a grammar error in the name of their job.
Finally, you seem to be implying that my behaviour was influenced by #misogyny (#mansplaining), but I had no idea what her gender was until I wanted to use a pronoun to refer to her in my previous post, so I visited her profile to see what her #pronounswere.
I finally watched Everything Everywhere All at Once and there was one scene at the beginning that perfectly captures a snippet of life in a Chinese-American immigrant household.
It's the pronoun scene. The main character keeps referring to her daughter's girlfriend as "he" and gets visibly frustrated when the daughter corrects her that Becky is a "she."
First, the bilingual dialogue is spot on! It happens so fast that it's hard to keep up with the subtitles, but if you understand Mandarin, you probably laughed at the exchange.
You might notice that Chinese immigrants are terrible at #pronouns. This is because in spoken Chinese, there is only one generic pronoun, "ta" which translates to "that person"
Any child of Chinese immigrants knows the embarrassment of correcting their parents in front of their friends when they keep calling male friends she and female ones he. It only recently occurred to me why this is.