I always thought "uh, this thing with the pronouns in email signatures is just woke Nonsens, everyone knows what gender I am and want to be seen as" (and i still don't really get neo-pronouns, to be frank), but I now work in a very international environment, and I am so glad if people give me their pronouns, because I can't always tell which gender an Indian or Chinese name is. Honestly, it's just smart to add them and they just save everyone a lot of time/confusion.
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God forbid someone is named Riley, Sam, Charlie, etc.
I thought the same thing as well.
I have a few trans friends and neighbors who told me that basically when they came out and tried to change gender, no one would acknowledge their new identity. So it's a subtle way to inform other people.
Also, I have met more than a few people whom I had no idea of their gender. So it's actually great to read that pronoun because I don't like playing guessing games.
This is so stupid. I know plenty of cishet people who include their pronouns in their sig because they have a gender neutral name.
Doesn't go far enough, remove pronouns from the email body too.
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Someone's about to get fired...
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For the life of me, I can't understand why they care about someone's sexual orientation or their pronoun.
I ran the numbers on sex changes and it's like .001 of the population. It's a non-issue.
The real issues are homelessness, inequality, Internet privacy, poisons in our food and workers' rights..
Not fucking pronouns.
For the life of me, I can’t understand why they care about someone’s sexual orientation or their pronoun.
They don't. It's classic divide and conquer tactics to package up the general population into nice bite-sized chunks that they can destroy individually with minimal resistance from the others. Exact same shit is how the Nazis rose to power.
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They don't care. The tactic is to have a minority that you can blame for all the bad things.
100 years ago it was the jews secretly running the world, today it's the evil trans people and immigrants conspiring to destroy The West™.
100 years ago they were also persecuting trans people. Here's a photo of them burning books in 1933, some of which were from the Institute of Sexual Science after it was raided by the Nazis. And it only got worse from there. Here's a whole article about it.
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https://thenewinquiry.com/the-scapegoating-machine/
Peter Thiel has many times loudly stated his goal since 9/11: Create scapegoats so the public has somebody to blame for their suffering and his fervent belief this will keep billionaires safe. My guess is most billionaires see it this way.
if you want to see a way to defeat this idea look up Thiel's interview with Piers Morgan after Luigi Mangione allegedly killed Brian Thompson
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Of course. How else will we prevent future aviation disasters?
MAGA voters couldn't identify a pronoun in high school. How are they supposed to figure it out now?
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Does that include Mr. Mrs. and other gendered titles?
Of course not, those are heteronormative.
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Small government regulating pronouns in worker's email signatures.
Regulations For Thee but Not for Me
Sorry to all the Blakes, Dylans, Ashleys, Francises, Shannons, Frankies, Charlies, Rorys, Blairs, Leslies, Angels, Billies, Sams, Kellys, Danas, Harleys, Adins, Caseys, and all the other non-binary/gender neutral names that I can't think of right now.
-signed a person with a non-binary name
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And yet again, the Tangerine Palpatine is focusing on stupid shit.
Farmers unable to gather their harvest? The working and middle classes being squeezed into oblivion? Grocery prices skyrocketing? Unknown drones taunting our military bases? Military helicopters colliding with commercial jets?
Nah, none of that stuff matters! Instead we just focus on fucking pronouns in emails!
What an absolute fucking joke.
Edit: fixed a typo.
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What about the people who often have DDoD, OCIS, NCIS, CCNA, CCNP, A+, Ph.D, MA, MBA, BA, BS, K12, SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS after their names? Can we get rid of title abuse then never focus on pronouns?
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Jesus fucking christ.
This would make a great pronoun or title attached to your name. Sign off every email with ...
John Doe
Jesus Fucking Christ
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Does that mean no-one can call him 'President' Trump or 'Mr' President any more?
Isn't president just a regular noun?
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https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2069436850145993
50 States, 50 Protests, 1day
Feb 5 @ your downtown.
Pass the word!
Trump and all his legions are unwiped assholes.
The communist leader of northern Venezuela is mandating how to conduct your business, how to write, how to speak.
Party of small government, rule of law and free markets.
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