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".... any gendered pronoun." [emphasis mine]

I guess this, um, being prefers to be referred to as "it"?

Hale Adams
Pikesville, People's Democratic Republic of Maryland

Yeah, I think "it" actually works in this case. I surely cannot tell, and don't really want to know, what sex, if any, this, this...whatever, really is.

I suggest s/h/it.

Wearing a Yankees ballcap in Boston? It must have a death wish.

(Technically, Harvard is in Cambridge, but close enough)

Someone should tally up Harvard's weirdos. It must be the national freak show by now. Eat your hearts out SF and LA.

Harvard hires its first "it."

"Harvard Picks First BGLTQ Director

Harvard has appointed Vanidy “Van” Bailey as the College’s first permanent director of bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer student life. Bailey, the assistant director for education at the University of California, San Diego, will assume the new position on July 16."

“Assume the position?” Is that a deliberate double entendre?

http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2012/07/harvard-hires-its-first-it.html

I wonder if it has spawned.

How about P.O.I.G. person of indeterminate gender.
Drop the "o" if it suits.

JWM

Perhaps Ms. Bailey could request that Harvard's English Department publish, for all to see and use, a list of non-gendered pronouns that are deemed "acceptable" for use when referring to Ms. Bailey.

My first thought was not to its gender, but the fact it is a Negro. Because: Racist. I am so ashamed.

For someone who doesn't want anyone to talk about her vajayjay, she draws an awful amount of attention to it by not saying.

A sibling of Van Jones

Like George Forman named his 4 sons GEORGE

"It puts the lotion in the basket ..."

Harvard, huh? Not only are these people a sorry excuse for an elite, not only are they not smart enough to decide how we should live, they aren't stable or well-balanced enough to inspire anything but helpless laughter. Time to purge the academy.

"It" has a hot wife or something.

http://gayweddings.com/vanidy-and-quisha-build-wedding-suits-them

Rg, that's a perfect reference! Well done!

Credentialed, not competent.

The definition of America's self-appointed elite.

Barney Frank wed, is this the other half?
http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCABRE86700820120708?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=603&sp=true

Sorry, "Van," but basic grammar trumps your identity and self-esteem. We have pronouns for a reason. Get over your Harvard self.

Looks like Saturday Night Live's "Pat", with the sad fact that it's not meant to be comedy.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Offend this thing, and you will have hell to pay on campus. That's what it is there for- to be offended, and punish those who offend it. Great job.

JWM

It Conquered The World.

On second thought, she reminds me of a large vat of amorphous, pre-sexual goo.

I'm not sure how you do it, Bob, but that image just became way more disturbing.

It may be pre-sexual, but I'd guess it isn't non-sexual. Unfortunately.

Vanidy needs to clue her "wife" in to this pronoun thing:

While Quisha may be the fashion stylist by day, she tells me that Vanidy also “knows what looks amazing on her.”

One other thing--wearing a ball cap with the colors of the team replaced by black is imbecilic.

Maybe we can refer to "it" as "What the hell?"

In the bad old days if you wanted to step out of the closet the first requirement was that you were good at it, like Paul Lind. This is not good advertising for being different, it's just punishment.

Sweet hopping Hitler in a top hat. Is this what we've come to?

Racist, sexist, homophobes...the trifecta!

Time to use the Henry VIII solution on the Universities.

So, what exactly, useful goods or services does Van provide? Seems like people determined to live non-traditional lifestyles have always found their niches, or if not determined enough, gave up and joined the boobosie with the rest of us. That ain't such a bad thing, most people are relieved to have gotten through that youthful foolishness, having found things of tru value to sustain them for the long haul.

Oh, I see. Useful idiot. Well then, Van's ticket and place in line for the camps is already prepared.

I also opt for calling "it" a "Pat."

Oh, and this sorry spectacle is coming soon to the U.S. Armed Forces, which having surrendered, will be unable to resist it. All Commanders will be require to have and fill a LBGTQ&F billet.

Just as all Russian Armed Forces had the political commissar.

10 INPUT VAR "CHROMOSOMAL PATTERN"
20 FOR VAR=XX GOTO 40
30 FOR VAR=XY GOTO 60
40 PRINT "SEX=FEMALE"
50 GOTO 80
60 PRINT "SEX=MALE"
70 GOTO 100
80 PRINT "THE CORRECT PERSONAL PRONOUN IS 'SHE'"
90 GOTO 999
100 PRINT "THE CORRECT PERSONAL PROUNOUN IS 'HE'"
110 GOTO 999
999 END

It's BASIC.

Van IT y

I have personally nothing except best wishes for Van, who is due all the respect as a fellow child of God.

My beef is that this is the stupid stuff that happens when you call out classes of citizens as being "special" and deserving of our protection. It's corrupting. They start demanding (!) you treat them special.

I'll be hanged if I will. This is the United States of America, where no one is special. We bow and scrape to nobody. There are no indispensable persons in our country. There is no one with pre-ordained qualities and a prior claim on Us. In the United States, we rise and fall on the merit of our works, not our God-given talents and the wealth of our progenitors.

So, act like a pretentious j-a, be prepared to be scorned like one. "It" it is then.

It would be wise to remember Gandalf's wisdom:
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

I saw a description about a video featuring Vanidy on YouTube, the description actually uses the pronoun "their"
as in "Vanidy got their degree at so and so school"

Yes. Their, like split personalities.

Kind of like a black "Pat", the SNL character.

hahahahahaah report me to google for cheating the game (i sell link building methods which is black hat and against googles rules)......... i like to cheat the system to try and make money by breaking the ethical code of conduct

I had a CRAZY amount of fun creating my Cruise in Chartreuse board. Now I am noticing that fabulous hue everywhere. Thanks for that inspiration!