There is so much bigger issues in the world that the term ‘freshman’ pic.twitter.com/yWo31B5Y2w
— Emily Jane (@emilyjaneoh) November 28, 2017
Gulp.
‘Freshman’ Students to Become Gender-Neutral ‘Fresh’ (University Times)
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Everything. As It Happens.
There is so much bigger issues in the world than having a nice warm scone with butter, jam and cream with your coffee, but that’s not a reason not to have one every now and then, is it?
At least Emily Jane is attractive and young
What if any other attributes do you offer?
I wouldn’t want Nigel to think I’m flirting with him, but can I just say – he’s all that and more.
Post some pics
We dally in a vast luminous landscape of the mind. Only a mad artist of twisted panoramas from the 17th century would do us justice.
I don’t want to be vulgar, but, to be honest, Nigel, the images I’ve created in my mind shame, sully and disgrace me.
My images mostly involve scones of various sizes with lots of butter, jam and cream.
Well that escalated quickly
It usually does round these parts…
Have to say, I always imagined Nigel as the chisellled strong jawed type just ready to sweep us all off our feet :)
My jaw is so strongly chiseled you could carve marble with it.
Is there one straight man on this site at all?
Hah no.
One doubts whether Anne is even a straight man.
And as for Mildred? Gay as a sticky bun.
The men on this site don’t have time for cis normative heterosexual social constructs of sexual attraction.
oh baby when you talk like that…
@anne. Yup Girls Rock!
HELLO!
Well that’s fresh
Isn’t a Fresh someone who has intimate relationships with a jar of liver? It is now.
Fupp off.
I don’t log on here to have people knocking my hobbies.
Are you speaking from experience there Eamo?
This nonsense. Besides, it should be ‘fresher’.
That’s third year. Postgrads are freshest.
LOL
haha
Correct, David.
We had Fresher way back in Trinners in the 70s – nothing new under the sun, eh?
(I know, Clash at the Exam Hall and all that – Punk’s GPO)
That’s what everyone called them before. It is what everyone will call them still.
Nice one Pip, colour me jealous !
Bertie, like the hordes who claimed to have flown a Spitfire in the Battle of Britain, I wasn’t actually AT the gig. I did peer in for quite a while towards the end. Like looking into a furnace.
Still a decent claim to fame Pip :)
but isn’t “fresher” too masculine? surely there should also be “freshette”..but then what about those inbetween? best go with “freshperson/ freshpeople”..but maybe in the future that’ll become discriminatory what with the rise of AI and all..”fresh-entity” is the only way forward.
A long time coming, this will change the whole nature of a University degree.
A young person of the female gender was the possessor of a small immature ruminant of the species genus Ovis, whose outermost covering reflected all wavelengths of visible light with a luminosity equal to that of a mass of naturally occurring microscopically crystalline water. Regardless of the translational path chosen by the aforesaid young person, there was a 100% probability that the aforementioned ruminant would select the same pathway.
(http://www.re-quest.net/reading/rhymes/mary-had-a-lamb/index.htm)
“it is not correct that there is such a thing as biological sex”
Says this Gender Studies lecturer Nicholas Matte.
Gender, according to this guy is a social construct (and is some social remnant from colonialism).
Yep.
32 second version:
https://youtu.be/10fDRERJh4w
Please no one else respond to this boo boo
Let’s have one day of peace here
Yeah, one should never look behind the curtain to see who is giving the information one should accept it without question.
OK
Sure. Thanks again.
“Pronouns are part of a cis-normative culture”
Jesus, the notions
Maybe Trinity should change the ingrained culture of Trinity students believing that a degree from Trinity is equivalent to a Masters Degree from any other institution. Those gender neutral humans are really up their own hole.
Web Summit interns excepted.
There is so many bigger issues in the world than misuse of basic English.
They are still “bloody snowflake students”.
Your tax euros at work. Good god.
Can’t imagine there’s a significant overhead for this, in fairness
I hate to say this but “Fresh” was claimed as an expression by the American military in the 1960’s, a short form of “Fresh meat for the grinder”. Used to describe a trained soldier who had not seen combat or been deployed yet.
I believe it is possibly used in Catch 22 and MASH.
When I was a skinny little first year in Dublin many years ago, we were always referred to as Freshers (of in my case “Hey Fugly !”).
Have your looks improved in the interim?
More 1984 style neo liberal nonsense. Reminds me of O’Brien in 1984. ‘How many fingers am I holding up?’ No numeric answer is correct. ‘How many do you want me to say?’ is the correct answer. There are two genders. Anyone who says differently is mentally ill.
‘How many genders am I holding up?’
‘None. You’re conflating math with social/biological identifiers.’
jesus, my kids haven’t a chance.
Kids are the offspring of the domestic goat. I am absolutely horrified that you would verbally and mentally abuse your children in such a violent and aggressive manner. I will be reporting you to the authorities for immediate castration and labotomisation. Don’t even get me started on you bringing Jesus into it…
For the day that’s in it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kI6MWZrl8v8
Coming to a Uni near you… :)
https://twitter.com/Toni_Airaksinen/status/935737227035971585
I did a module in Gender studies at NCAD, I was the only heterosexual male in the class. I was constantly asked for the male opinion, usually while getting full daggers and my answers resulting in much tutting. It was a thinly veiled, man hating workshop, how did I know that? One essay topic was : The problem with the white heterosexual male. FYI Taking the Gender Studies module at Art College to meet babes = fail!
Fun times!