Pronouns: he , him, she, her, they, them

I like pronouns on people's mails, it knows who to label as an idiot very easily. Yes Emily I rather suspect you're a woman as you have a woman's name, talk like a woman, sound like a woman, dress like a woman.....and perhaps most importantly, you're a boring equity analyst with a dry job, zero sense of humour and absolutely unspecial. After the flat package deal that is you, I "really" don't think you're going to whip out that actually there is something different about you.

Don't even get me started on people you're never going to actually meet. You're a stock loan "trader" in some boring office in London....wow I'm never hopefully going to meet you so really irrespective of whatever blend of messed up you are......I don't care and it really doesn't matter......
 
I'm generally meh when it comes to this pronoun nonsense. Dont care, not interested! We (MoD) have recently been given direction on pronouns when addressed in in an email setting. I get it! However. The Default should be traditional norms. If you want to be referred to otherwise, just let me know, I wont be a **** .
I'm not out to insult people who do care. My default will always be to refer to the "obvious".
Where the obvious isnt so obvious I will default to mate/pal/bro/buddy unless prompted otherwise. I'm not going to go out of my way to be a ****, but at the same time I'm not going to jump through some ridiculous sociological hoops to placate confused individuals. If you want me to address you otherwise tell me and I'm happy with that.
I think I generally dont understand the whole thing and dont care. At the same time I'm not out to **** people off. I just dont care enough to make an effort unless otherwise prompted.
 
The people that are pushing the unlimited genders and pronous bs are just outright hypocrits and therefore instantly disregarded where I'm concerned.

Can I identify as a starish?

"If you think you are a starfish then sure, why not"

Great, can I identify as black?

"Don't be ridiculous, and in fact can you cut your hair to remove those dreadlocks, you're appropriating another cultures hairstyle."
 
Some clip a friend showed me the other day was funny.
It was someone wanting to identify as something they're not, and he asked how old they were. 20 or something and said why are you not 60.
Then pointing out that age is less important than sex, so why not.

I think the whole thing is nonsense and will treat it as such.
 
robj20 said:
Some clip a friend showed me the other day was funny.
It was someone wanting to identify as something they're not, and he asked how old they were. 20 or something and said why are you not 60.
Then pointing out that age is less important than sex, so why not.

I think the whole thing is nonsense and will treat it as such.
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That would have been Shapiro
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Hardly anyone does it where I work thankfully. If HR send out emails insisting everyone does it I'd imagine they'd need to embark on a pretty big recruitment drive...
 
In the military we get this rammed down our necks (oo-er!). Airmen and Airwomen are now Aviators - a more inclusive term, yet we still call our Officers Ma'am and Sir!

 
Freefaller said:
I largely ignore it. For me it's just a fad that will disappear - though I will admit that sometimes I deal with people with ambiguous names, but how hard is it to refer to them by name rather than by a pronoun?

I got into hot water with my previous HR director when I refused to state my pronouns - I said "I don't have any" and then followed up with "if someone doesn't know how to address me they can use my name".

Meh, it doesn't bother me that people want to do it, and if it helps some people with a bit of insecurity or going through a difficult time with their identity then it does me no harm, but I'm afraid I'm dead against virtue signalling (although we all do it at some point) so I will agree to disagree with the concept but not go out of my way to cause a fuss.
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Forcing it is such a ##### thing to do. HR bods probably don't realise they would be forcing people to potentially out themselves to colleagues or lie and maintain a gender they may no associate with etc. I sort of wish more effort was put into getting people to stop being dicks to each other to be honest.
 
I’m not in favour of mandating putting your pronouns in an email signature, but presumably all these free thinkers quite happily put other stuff they are told to in their signature without complaint like their job title, location, phone number etc. In the days of Teams and remote working half of that stuff is borderline useless now.

Just seems another inconsequential thing that the extremes like to turn into a wedge issue.
 
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