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   UK university bans ‘discriminatory’ words like ‘manpower’ and   
   ‘Christian name’    
      
   Cardiff University in the UK has told students and staff to avoid   
   gendered words like “sportsmanship” and “manpower,” also saying that   
   “first name” or “forename” is preferable to “Christian name.”   
      
   The inclusive-language guidelines, which have been in place for a few years   
   but were first reported by the Telegraph Thursday, are an effort to “promote   
   fairness and equality through raising awareness about potentially   
   discriminatory vocabulary.”   
      
   Cardiff takes the policy one step further than similar ones recently rolled   
   out at other Western schools: Most colleges say their inclusive-language   
   guidelines are merely recommendations. But at Cardiff, students who use banned   
   words and phrases could    
   face discipline under the university’s bullying and harassment policy, while   
   employees may also face repercussions, the Daily Mail reported.   
      
   The Welsh school’s guidelines offer a litany of advice, warning students and   
   staff to avoid gendered language. It specifically mentions dozens of words to   
   avoid, also offering broad guidelines about how to talk about disabled or   
   transgender people.   
      
   “Don’t be too anxious about the use of language, though,” the policy   
   says. “Blind people do use terms like ‘see you later’ and being too   
   careful can make conversation painful for both parties.”   
      
   In statements to the British press, Cardiff insisted that it was upholding   
   both academic freedom and the promoting a campus atmosphere free of   
   discrimination.   
      
   Cardiff University is far from the only place to implement a so-called   
   inclusive language policy. In December, the University of Sussex in England   
   advised professors not to assume students’ gender, while in January, the   
   doctors’ trade union, the    
   British Medical Association, told physicians not to refer to pregnant patients   
   as “mothers” because it might offend expectant “intersex men and trans   
   men.”   
      
   And in the United States, prestigious Princeton came under fire for banning   
   several man-based words, and California State University Fullerton, California   
   State University Northridge, the University of Northern Colorado, and the   
   University of Wisconsin-   
   Milwaukee are among several to launch campaigns warning about potentially   
   offensive words and phrases. Unlike Cardiff, though, these institutions   
   don’t threaten formal discipline for violators.   
      
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