Problems with Students Respecting Pronouns
An issue that I’ve noticed at Uni is the students making fun of certain pronouns, especially in class group chats. I think a main reason why things like that have been normalized is that there aren’t many conversations happening that discourage students from making fun of other genders and using derogatory terms against them. When there are conversations about issues like this, students often don’t take them seriously because it is hard for them to fully understand the negative effect it can have on their peers. For a lot of freshmen, not just as Uni, there is a problem with the level of respect students give to their classmates that don’t fit in with the binary. At least for my class, freshmen year was when a lot of students came out and the idea of different pronouns was introduced for the first time to some students. My freshmen year was online, so that resulted in some people not being aware of others’ pronouns, and some making fun of the students who came out. That contributed to ...