Quote:That's how I took and still how I took it. How you take it is up to you. Your outrage is also up to you just as much as the outrage of people being offended over little things. I term you ever changing crusade in this entire thread as your outrage over people's outrage pretty much the same, TBH. 

 

Again regardless of how you take the meaning of that, given the context of the words proceeding the ones you have an issue with in particular, it's not up to you it's up to the teacher. I wonder if I rolled into a church and said slanderous/misguided or just silly things if I would have the right to stay there or not be chastised. I am guessing no, I would not and rightly so. 

 

LOL, my liberal friend, I really like you.

 

I'm not "outraged" by any means, but very much surprised at how PC is taking over in this country.

 

Let me see if I can break it down into simple terms (if it doesn't offend you).

 

Is it appropriate or not to refer to women as females?  Simple yes/no question.

 

Is it appropriate or not to refer to men as males?  Again, it's a simple yes/no question.

 

It's been pointed out and brought up regarding my avatar in this forum.  Spock is all about logic, not emotion.  When words are passed out by a college professor or otherwise, should those words be taken "literally" or should they be subject to "interpretation"?  Where does the line get drawn?  I've linked to the syllabus twice and quoted text from it.  When I asked about a portion of it, which is literal text, the argument that I get from you is how you "interpret" the text and what you "think" the text actually meant to say.

 

I'm a "logic" kind of thinking person.  I deal with computers a lot, and it's all logic.  Either 1 or 0, true or false, etc.

 

When I look at the text, I take it as the literal meaning of what the professor wrote when creating the syllabus.

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