Phrase "Ladies and Gentlemen" deemed "degrading and designed to harm"
http://www.thecollegefix.com/phrase-ladies-and-gentlemen-deemed-degrading-and-designed-to-harm/
The Pride Resource Center at Colorado State University has deemed the phrase "ladies and gentlemen" one of many "transphobic phrases" that should not be used by students.
A poster released by the center states that "transphobic slurs," like "ladies and gentlemen" are "extremely degrading and designed to harm." Other such harmful phrases are "real women/men," "What's your real name?," "transgendered," and "you don't look trans."
The poster, labeled "Tips for Supporting Transgender People," suggests that these phrases should not be used, and instead urges students to "incorporate words like 'cisgender' when referring to non-transgender folks." ...
Okay ... enough.
1. Use of the age-old reference "ladies and gentlemen" is NOT a slur in any way, shape, or form - period. Because you psychotic snowflakes laughably pretend yourselves to be something other than
either of those two categories and fabricate an excuse to be offended by such normal terms is your personal problem - not anyone else's. Get over your neurotic, narcissistic self, already. Grow up ... and shut the hell up.
2. "Transphobia" is a nonexistent condition. No one fears you hopelessly unbalanced nut jobs. We simply look upon you with exasperation at your self-inflicted, pathetic condition and laugh at your pitiful attempts to exert control over everyone else plainly because you are eaten up with self-loathing.
3. You do not have the right (legal, moral, or otherwise) to impose your irrational will on anyone else by telling them what words they can or cannot use. That is an attempt to bully and exert tyrannical control over others. If you want to be a Communist/Fascist/Marxist/Statist or any other kind of dictatorial -ist, move to Pyongyang or Tehran - see how long your freakish existence lasts there.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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