According to a news report, the University of Pittsburgh is now telling students what is and is not proper English. This "suggestion" has nothing to do with a desire to create a more expressive, imaginative, or beautiful world of language. "Proper" is that which is "gender-inclusive" and "non-sexist." Use of improper language in classrooms and elsewhere on campus will be considered "disrespectful and dismissive."
It is quite clear that this suggestion will eventually lead to a ban on traditional language and literature, the product of centuries of cultural and intellectual development. They don't conform to current standards, not only of language, but of thought.
If feminists today have their way, however, that cultural expression will become unreadable within mere decades. The "canon" will have been consigned to the trash heap of history. Instead of standing on the cultural past as a mountain from which to look, our culture will seek to begin again under the oozy sea. We won't be able to read Shakespeare, or any other traditional author, for any insights, because he will have none worth preserving.
The professor in the classroom will have little to lecture about because the present will be sacrosanct and the past unspeakable. In fact, there will be no professors, because they represent past knowledge.
All there will be is an ever-present "now." It will be a sad and ugly world. Nothing will ever please us but our current selves. Our collective memory will be erased. We will no longer have access to traditional themes, motifs, and means of expression. Archetypes will be lost. Heroism will be dead.
What we are witnessing today is cultural suicide. When the past is gone, we will have nothing to compare to the present. We won't know if the present is good or bad. We will be alive but mindless slaves, lobotomized by the profoundly ignorant who wield the scalpel and the ice pick.
Marcus Sheffield