Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center.

I'm Shane Morris, host of the upstream podcast and one of the writers for Breakpoint.

And I'm joined today by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the host of

of Breakpoint.

And today we are answering your questions, this time about what to do when your college

asks for your pronouns, the term white fragility.

All of these questions were sparked by breakpoint commentaries, short courses, and the

Colson Fellows program.

If you've got a question you'd like us to answer here on the program, all you need to do is

email us.

The address is ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org.

Well, John, that first one probably caught your ear. It caught my eye as I read

the questions. And it's about this question of what do you do as a student when you're applying to

colleges and they ask for your pronouns. This is going to be one of those practices that becomes

increasingly common. And it's something that I never thought about or anticipated

being an issue. It's not an issue in my life, but it could potentially be an issue in my kids' lives.

And it's something that we very much need to think about. This is just one little facet of an

emerging reality of living in this post-sexual revolution world, this post-Christian culture, in which different assumptions

reigns supreme. So this person asks, how would you advise college-age young people that are going

to college and will be asked to designate their pronouns? To even list one's obvious pronouns

is to play into the game that any other pronoun is possible.

Our local college is now asking for these at the beginning of every new class.

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