A simple way
It may be “simple,” in a sense, but as for showing you’re “inclusive” of trans and non-binary people…even if it’s true that “using pronouns” and “asking about pronouns” is a way of doing that, what about the fact that it’s also a way of showing you’re not “inclusive” of everyone else? What about the fact that it’s alienating to most people to force them to pretend that they chose their own sex? What about the fact that most people just do not believe the goofy fairy tale that physical sex is unreal and easy to switch while magic switchable GeNder is real and absolute and mandatory? What about the fact that most women just do not want to step back and let men do all the talking about what it is to be a woman? What about colonization? What about appropriation? What about punching down? What about respecting truth and reality?
For most of these narcissists, their pronouns are I, Me, Mine
“We’re encouraging everyone to use pronouns and ask about pronouns”
I’m sorry, but after watching the video below I know all I need to know about pronouns and have no further questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu1ciVFbecw
To be fair, those are in reality “my” pronouns. The third person ones belong to the speaker, which is why it’d be weird to claim them as something I own.
The author of this comment does not need to be encouraged to use pronouns since the author of this comment has sworn off the use of pronouns. The swearing off of using pronouns has the added benefit of padding the length of the author’s rather short comments.
As a woman in a male-dominated department in a male-dominated industry, I have zero fucking interest in drawing attention to my sex at any stage of my working life. And it bothers me more than I’d like, seeing male co-workers with “he/him” in their sigs – while ostensibly supportive of trans colleagues, it conveniently helps to reinforce their higher status in the gender hierarchy.
For a crass analogy – mandating status badges is a little different, depending on whether you’re obliged to wear general’s stripes or a yellow star.
Min, yes! Exactly. I have one of those names that is ambiguous (though not as ambiguous as it used to be; it is more female than male now, at least in the US). I tend to use my first initial and middle name when doing things like submitting plays to theatres, because it is a documented fact that plays by women stand a substantially lower chance of being read than those by males (it’s something like 17% of plays by women read compared to those by men). Putting my pronouns would just sort of give the game away, now, wouldn’t it?
sentient spanner,
I was going to point out that I’m using pronouns today, just as I do every day, but sentient spanner’s post makes the point much more wittily. If I had an internet to give, I’d give it to sentient spanner.
I’m beginning to think that this is a conspiracy foisted on us by pronouns. Too long have they gone unnoticed, overshadowed by nouns and verbs and adjectives and even some conjunctions. No more! Attention will be paid!
Prepositions are taking note.
Well personally, think is stupid to tell people to use pronouns because most of already do. If didn’t, would find difficult to communicate.
Really hurts brain. Will stop now.
Simple indeed. Pretty sure the irony of using that specific word rather than “easy” wasn’t intentional, but I cackled a bit.
Of course we can all tell that Michael Brady has no problem with letting people self-identify however they like. Anyone going by a username like DRmbrady there surely asks people what honorific they prefer, and has no problem with people who self-identify as having doctorates.