Victorians bullied to drop “heteronormative” terms such as “husband” and “wife” to battle imaginary diseases

New government language guide tells public servants not to say husband or wife because it’s too ‘heteronormative’ and it might offend people

The Minister for Moral Corruption in the Andrews government announces:

No more ‘HUSBAND’ and ‘WIFE’ and out with the ‘HE’ and ‘SHE’!

Holding onto offensive hetero-normative concepts will no longer be permissible in the Rainbow State. The Department for the Enforcement of Sexual Depravity has been authorised to use all means necessary to re-educate Victorian public service workers still stuck in the bigoted ultra right-wing man/woman duopoly. 

Sounds like a satire? This is Australia 2016. 

  • Inclusive Language Guide is a government initiative to keep LGBTI people safe
  • Victorian workers are told to adopt gender-neutral pronouns ‘zie’ and ‘hir’  
  • Equality Minister Martin Foley said it will help eliminate homophobia, biphobia
  • But the guide has been met with criticism for its ‘postmodernist ideology’
Workers told not to use ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ as it’s heteronormative

Public servants in Victoria have been advised not to use the words ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ in order to promote ‘safer spaces’ for the LGBTI community.

The Inclusive Language Guide is a government initiative to keep people safe, particularly LGBTI people, The Australian reported.

Workers are being encouraged to adopt gender-neutral pronouns ‘zie’ and ‘hir’, and to avoid using derogatory terms. 

Victorian Equality Minister Martin Foley (pictured) said the guide is part of a measure to eliminate homophobia, biphobia and transphobia

They are also being discouraged from asking ‘offensive questions’, particularly to transgender people, such as whether they have had surgery or not.

The guide encourages both the public and businesses to use the word ‘partner’ than wife, girlfriend, husband or boyfriend, to avoid heteronormativity and promote sexual freedom and equality.

Victorian Equality Minister Martin Foley said the guide was part of a measure to eliminate homophobia, biphobia and transphobia.   

But Mr Foley said the document was not a new one and followed a ‘long-standing practice of government departments having guides on language.

‘The facts are that LGBTI people have higher levels of anxiety, depression and suicide – they achieve lower educational outcomes – and words matter,’ Mr Foley told Daily Mail Australia in a statement.

‘Again it is a guide which suggests that you should try and avoid the use of husband and wife – it doesn’t ban it.

The guide encourages both the public and businesses to use the word ‘partner’ than wife, girlfriend, husband or boyfriend, to avoid heteronormativity and promote sexual freedom and equality

‘It makes the point that we shouldn’t assume that a person is married. Not everyone is heterosexual – and at the end of the day we should also remember that marriage rates in Australia are also declining.’

But the guide has been met with criticism for perpetuating the idea that gender is a social construct.

The Coalition’s parliamentary secretary spokesman Tim Smith told The Australian: ‘Heaven help the next generation of Victorians who have been indoctrinated into a sinister postmodernist ideology’.

Centre for Independent Studies senior research fellow Jeremy Sammut said the guide was seemingly written by ‘academics wielding their critical postmodernist theory of the world’.

The guide was developed with support from Victoria’s LGBTI Taskforce and aims to break down the binary constructs of male and female.

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Zie and hir are just bullies

Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun

Just when you think this passive-aggressive victim politics has reached new levels of absurdity, along comes the Victorian Government – again.

The undertone of bullying is unmistakable:

Victorian government workers are being discouraged from using “heteronormative” terms such as “husband” and “wife” in a new guide to communicating with the LGBTI community.

Instead, the workers are being schooled in adopting gender-neutral pronouns “zie” and “hir”.

The Inclusive Language Guide, which has been designed for use across the public sector, … says “it is important to challenge our thinking beyond the binary constructs of male and female”.

It is?

Jeremy Sammut is right:

Centre for Independent Studies senior research fellow Jeremy Sammut said the language guide appeared to have been dictated by “academics wielding their critical postmodernist theory of the world” who were “determined to force (it) on the rest of us”.

“It’s a totalitarian project dressed up as liberation theory,” he said. “I would think it is possible to treat people with respect and respect people’s privacy without resorting to this.”

Professional offence-taking, used by bullies to argue for privileges and status.

 

7 thoughts on “Victorians bullied to drop “heteronormative” terms such as “husband” and “wife” to battle imaginary diseases”

  1. This sort of crap totally pisses me off . It is true that offended sub-groups might detect a certain amount of micro-aggression from me as in expressing my opinion , sensitized as they are, to look for it. I’m just another bigoted wankophobic.

  2. F these NWO creeps. Good grief, what utter maggotry!

    I hope they understand what “F” means.

  4. Re: “‘The facts are that LGBTI people have higher levels of anxiety, depression and suicide – they achieve lower educational outcomes – and words matter,’ Mr Foley told Daily Mail Australia in a statement.”

    Yeah, “words matter!” As in “Call things by their right names!” as that silly Confucius guy once said. Like calling these “snowflakes”

    ….. RETARDS!

    😉

  6. What a sick sick country Australia is becoming!
    That socialist swine that govern Victoria have taken that state to an all time low!

  7. The LGBTI community are just a bunch of meaningless desperate and confused people that try to make us all feel sorry that they really cannot get a grip on life and would prefer to blame everyone and everything for their inability to be normal functioning human beings!

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