The website to Sarah Lawrence College—which, if I’m not mistaken, was named after a chick—offers “Gender Neutral Language Guidelines” that provide a frightening glimpse into the latter-day leftist tendency to get everything backward.
Their handy how-to manual accepts the term “gendered” as a verb, as if sexual dimorphism is a diaphanous social construct and one actually has to inject gender into the language, yet it frowns upon “transgendered” in favor of “transgender,” as if to imply that these self-mutilating freaks were born that way.
MIT offers a guide for removing the word “man” from everything except, oh but of course, the word “manslaughter.”
