The good professor…
Campus Reform: Forget gender-neutral bathrooms. One professor revealed his new goal this weekend: gender-neutral holidays.
On the eve of Father’s Day, Preston Mitchum, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, took to Twitter to condemn the gendered holiday.
He tweeted, “With all the debate about single mothers and fatherhood, this is why I wish we would have a PARENT’S DAY and stop gendering everything.”
“What I’m trying not to do, however, is discount Caitlyn’s story because of her privileges… but instead use her story to challenge you, me, us about owning our messed up ways of only standing up for people when they are wealthy, not of color, republican [sic], and who has [sic] access to a plethora of resources,” Mitchum wrote in a series of tweets.
Prior to joining Georgetown’s faculty, Mitchum worked for the left-leaning Center for American Progress as an LGBT policy and racial justice analyst. He has previously contributed to Huffington Post and The Atlantic.
From Mitchum’s bio:
“Preston Mitchum is a Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a nonpartisan research and educational institute, in Washington, D.C. Specifically, he works for the FIRE Initiative, which works to eliminate the social, economic, and health disparities faced by LGBT people of color. Preston’s research interests include the intersection of law and policy as it relates to race, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender, and poverty. Prior to joining CAP, Preston served as the Research Fellow of the Behavioral Health Initiative at the National Coalition for LGBT Health, where he researched and identified short and long-term strategies for translating LGBT-inclusive behavioral health policy, cultural competency training, and theory into practice.”
Liberals want to fight for LGBT and women’s rights yet they want everything to be gender neutral. Seems they want to have it both ways.
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