According
to The College Fix, college departments across the country are dumping the term
“alumni” in favor of “alumnx”
in support of gender neutrality. This is
surpassingly strange, even for the wokest wackos in higher education, as
“alumni” itself is a completely gender-neutral term.
“Alumni”
is a Latin word derived from “alumnus.” It means “pupil” according to the
online etymology dictionary. “Alumni” is the plural, and gender-neutral, form
of “alumnus.” If “alumni,” obviously non-gendered, is still not non-gendered enough
for leftist loonies, we are very near the end of civilization.
Schools
currently using “alumnx” in at least some instances in some departments include
the University of California-San Diego, Syracuse University, the University of
Michigan and Loyola University Maryland. The term is especially prevalent on
the schools’ LGBTQ+ web pages.
To me, “alumni” has always been
perfectly gender-neutral, whereas “alumnx” sounds like a non-binary, bisexual
Latino woman graduate in today’s context. Too specific in its own misleading
way.
Gender-neutral
gingerbread cookie sweaters, gender-neutral Barbie
dolls, gender-neutral gender-neutral terms. Can’t say “gingerbread cookie,”
have to say, “gingerbread gender-neutral person cookie.” Again, both the term
“gingerbread cookie” and the cookies themselves are gender-neutral. (“Person,”
however, isn’t. It’s got “son” in it).
What’s next? (Although I really
don’t want to know). Are we going to be asking if the word “neutral” is neutral
enough? Is “bland” bland enough?
Unspecified, indistinct,
unknowable, amorphous. Welcome to the future.
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