Pronoun Survey Results Show College Students Still Have a Sense of Humor…
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For a minute there, I felt like the only college student that still knows how to have a laugh.
If you thought college kids enjoyed answering bullsh*t surveys, you were very wrong. Or… very right. It depends on how you look at it…
This is going to be a little long, but it needs to be seen in all its glory.
From The College Fix:
Some students wrote that their gender was “Apache attack helicopter” in response to a survey about “engineering culture,” which prompted accusations from the academics that “fascism” is on the rise in America.
The researchers wrote a paper that described their experiences while working on a survey about LGBT students in STEM in the Summer 2023 edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, housed out of Northwestern University.
Titled “Attack Helicopters and White Supremacy: Interesting Malicious Responses to an Online Questionnaire about Transgender Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science Student Experiences,” the paper reported on “individuals exercising discursive power in their language to target researchers and tamper with data.”
The authors wrote that the “backlash” to the project “reflects characteristics of contemporary far-right or fascist political movements in the U.S., such as the synthesis of antisemitism with anti-Black and anti-feminist rhetorics.”
About 25 percent of the “malicious responses” provided some airplane-related response to gender, including several who specifically identified as an “Apache helicopter.” Identifying as an “attack helicopter” is a meme that goes back to at least 2014.
Some gender responses appeared to express frustration with the survey, such as “homophobic biggot, yes we exist,” “Cis gender lizard king,” and “F*cking white male.”
Other mocking answers were much more detailed, with responses to the gender prompt that included “Quasi-Demi-poney; bankai-released state queercopter with a hint of faggotdrag lesbian and homosexual upside-down Frappuccino cake” and “on-cookie-cutter cis-furry dragonkin. Don’t judge.”
The researchers fielded 723 responses. Of those, 299 normal responses came in from undergraduate students in engineering education, there were 374 invalid or incomplete responses, and 50 so-called malicious responders, or roughly 15 percent of the questionnaire’s responses, the paper stated.
“Importantly, the themes and repetitions serve to mark shared references and signify an existing community with a shared political agenda and racist, trans-antagonistic, and online political meme commentary,” the researchers wrote.
Some of the other “malicious responses” included respondents saying their race was “Afro/Klingon-Asiatic Galapogayation” and their gender was “Aerosol.”
Another listed their race as “Native American (Elizabeth Warren)” and put down “airplane” for the gender. The disability listed was “transgenderism” for this particular respondent. Multiple respondents listed being transgender as a disability.
Some of the listed negative responses, as determined by the scholars, also included “female” “trans male” and “nonbinary queer.” One person also wrote “male” for gender and “Puerto-Rican American” as their race.
The authors of the paper further framed the responses as part of fascism.
“Theories of fascism provide a framework to interpret the ways that dominant, oppressive, or reactionary ideologies regarding race, personhood, and gender become entrenched in community base building, exercises of power, and the State,” the scholars wrote.
Furthermore, the responses were “just one small component of broader fascist base building in the United States which frequently targets trans individuals and student activists.”
We talk a lot about how Gen-Z-ers are overly sensitive and tend to blow things out of proportion. Which is absolutely true, and more than mildly infuriating. It always tickles me, though, when the boomers, Xers, and millennials, the ones who are supposed to be the teachers, are the ones that can’t take a joke.
The whole pronoun thing has been so overplayed that everyone with more than two braincells can look at it and call it what it is: a waste of your f*cking time. The great part about these “joke” answers is that it could just as easily not be a joke. We have people walking around that would take that seriously and “affirm” people in their belief that they are, indeed, an attack helicopter. Frightening, isn’t it?
People need to start picking up some books and sit down for a little review. The road to fascism is shorter than most people think it is. I just don’t think ignoring batsh*t pronoun requests will serve as the catalyst for WWIII…
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Perhaps some students really have a sense of humor, but when they are given a ton of homework, the fun disappears somewhere 🙂 It’s good that at least you can ask for help from the https://educibly.com/ service, which helps students with their work. Thanks to this service. I always walk around cheerful and satisfied.
I’m surprised that the surveyors didn’t have a collective fit about those who identify themselves as an “Apache attack helicopter”, saying that it’s an “appropriation of indigenous peoples”. I identify myself as an AMERICAN who happens to be a devout Christian, conservative black woman. Deal with it, leftists!
>The road to fascism is shorter than most people think it is
We’re on a path well traveled. The problem is that the people who claim to be against it are the ones invoking it.
>negative responses… One person also wrote “male” for gender and “Puerto-Rican American” as their race.
Uhhh, what is negative about that?
American?
That was my thought. If these “researchers” have a problem with someone identifying as ‘female’ or ‘Puerto-Rican American’, then they are researchers, they’re advocates and ideologues.