This spring, Ohio State University will launch a new course entitled "Crossing Identity Boundaries" which will empower America's precious snowflakes with all of the tools they need to detect microaggressions and become "self-aware" of their inherent "white privilege." Unfortunately, this isn't a joke.
According to the class homepage, at the end of the course, students should be able to "identify micro-aggressions within their daily lives and within society as a whole" and "identify ways in which they can challenge or address systems of power and privilege."
Moreover, although it seems a little off topic for this particular course, students will also apparently be taught whether or not it's appropriate for guys to always pay on a date. And even though it's not explicitly addressed on the course syllabus, we presume it's a given that such a question would only be asked after determining one's preferred pronoun because otherwise we're just not sure how young people would go about confirming they're actually on a date with a "guy." It's also very unclear whether the mere discussion of stereotypical gender roles, like who should pay for a date, might be a "micro-aggression" in and of itself...dicey territory for sure.
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