{"id":14857,"date":"2018-08-09T00:14:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T07:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=14857"},"modified":"2018-08-09T00:14:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T07:14:35","slug":"quick-takes-fragile-youth-happy-badges-pronoun-stickers-triggering-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/08\/09\/quick-takes-fragile-youth-happy-badges-pronoun-stickers-triggering-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes &#8211; Fragile Youth: Happy Badges; Pronoun Stickers; Triggering Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Gotta protect those emotionally fragile feelings!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xe3NUKCnZp4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Once upon a time, a university student was an adult who was emotionally mature. Now, they need &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/2018\/02\/25\/britains-first-university-well-being-tsar-hands-happy-badges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">happy badges<\/a>&#8221; provided by a &#8220;happiness tsar&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Students feeling anxious in the approach to exam season will be given &#8216;happy badges&#8217; by Britain&#8217;s first university &#8216;happiness tsar&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The University of Buckingham said the system will be led by Cherry Coombe, whose role is to &#8216;help improve the working and learning environment&#8217; by promoting mental well-being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The badges, which look like traditional prefect badges but have the word &#8216;happiness&#8217; written in gold, have so far been awarded to students who took part in a local parade through Buckingham and to staff whose actions &#8216;improved the work environment&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What better way to protect a fragile person&#8217;s gender identity than providing them with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/technology\/article\/pronoun-stickers-i-o-2018-Google-conference-12897275.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gender stickers<\/a> that announce to the world what other <em>must<\/em> refer to them as.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;[At] Google&#8217;s annual developers conference i\/o 2018 [\u2026] many are sharing on Twitter that attendees are being encouraged to wear &#8216;pronoun stickers.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;ABC 7&#8217;s reporter Matt Keller posted a photo on Twitter of a station at the conference check-in with stickers reading &#8216;they,&#8217; &#8216;him&#8217; and &#8216;her&#8217; and a sign reading, &#8216;We care about your pronouns. Add a sticker to your badge to share with others which ones you prefer.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Perhaps more scary to some than mis-gendering is&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/2018\/08\/02\/maths-textbooks-should-banned-intimidate-pupils-headteacher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">math textbooks<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Maths [sic] textbooks should be banned because they intimidate pupils, a leading girls\u2019 school headmistress has said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Jane Prescott, head of Portsmouth High School said that students risk becoming anxious if they can see that their classmates are &#8216;galloping ahead&#8217; of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The move has been a &#8216;confidence booster&#8217; for girls, and allows them to &#8216;feel encouraged, and feel they are good at Maths [sic]&#8217;, Ms Prescott said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;Maths [sic] is about confidence. If you are someone who is nervous about Maths [sic], [textbooks] put you off,&#8217; she told The Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If textbooks are taken away, students &#8216;are not in a situation where they feel everyone else is galloping ahead&#8217;, she added.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8G8OMKk2_sI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Fragile Youth: Happy Badges; Pronoun Stickers; Triggering Textbooks\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Gotta protect those emotionally fragile feelings!\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Gotta protect those emotionally fragile feelings! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/08\/09\/quick-takes-fragile-youth-happy-badges-pronoun-stickers-triggering-textbooks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17,6],"tags":[9,70,22,55,25,42,69,57],"class_list":["post-14857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","category-science","tag-europe","tag-facepalm","tag-fail","tag-gender","tag-higher-ed","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes","tag-war-on-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14858,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857\/revisions\/14858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}