Thursday, October 20, 2005

Complain, Complain

About universities including works that haven't been created by people other than old, white, males. Damn diversity. From Washington Times:
"There's an emphasis on multicultural studies and few campuses have escaped the disease"
This is an interesting claim:
" Other seats of higher learning have gone farther, creating synthetic pronouns, using "hir" for "her" or "his," and "ze" for "she" and "he". You thought "herstory" for "history" was a joke. "
Most certainly have never heard of this one, nor has anyone else that I know heard of this. Where the hell did the author hear this from? Oops, the author fails to mention the "other seats of higher learning" that have implemented this interesting choice of words.

Learning about literature from different cultures is a good thing. Expanding one's horizons is a positive not a negative.