Surely it should be a choice.
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I think the "everyone anyone your pronouns" thing in email, slack, whatever is dumb. But if I lived in SD, I'd start doing it right about now.
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Sounds like justification to not use gendered language. Might as well go full gender abolitionist on this shiznat.
“I was told that I had 5 days to remove my tribal affiliation and pronouns,” Little said in an email to The Associated Press. “I believe the exact wording was that I had ‘5 days to correct the behavior.’
"Correct the behavior" just means setting the style to bold and increasing the font size, though.
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I'd comply and remove that info from the signature. I'd just start every email with:
Hello,
Thanks for reading my email. In case we're not already familiar, my pronouns are he/him and I'm affiliated with...
nah just remove all pronouns
Smith,
Name Emma Jones and sophomore Thursday General Physics Class. Writing because in class yesterday mentioned having open positions research lab. found summary of project very interesting, would like learn and talk joining lab. Time in weeks could meet?
Thank time and look forward hearing soon
Best regards,
Emma
I love this. It screams "Why use lot word when few word do trick."
Yeah no pronouns in emails ever again. That's way more fun lol
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No pronouns how are they planning to continue communication this seems like a key element of language
Hey now, you can still use punctuation!
No pronouns how are ____ planning to continue communication ____ seems like a key element of language
F_F_
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Some folks just get way too pissy about simple words. They're just words, sounds that are emitted from the large facial orifice, and written down or typed in symbols.
What words someone refers to another as change absolutely nothing about the person in question. Looking past the words that are clearly intended to be offensive, innocent pronouns such as he and she are simply meant to shorten and simplify writing and speech, rather than having to write, type or speak the person's full name every time.
TL;DR - They're just words, get over it.
I think "they're just words, get over it" is a good argument in favour of pronoun declaration, no?
Basically, yeah. As long as they're not deliberately and intentionally offensive anyways.
I've been called grandma before, by my good friend's niece. I'm a grown dude, and ain't even related to their family.
I just laughed it off, because I know it wasn't intentional, plus everyone in their family seems to occasionally accidentally use the wrong names or pronouns.
It doesn't upset me, unless they keep repeating the same mistake intentionally. They're just words, and sometimes people make innocent mistakes.
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why would xe do that? (not sure what Noem's pronouns are)
Me not sure.
pathetic I can't believe this is a real group of real human beings
Just in case anyone is wondering what all the pronouns are. Here is a list of the standard, non standard, informal, and archaic pronouns in the English language
And it at least implied that you couldn't use any of these words at all in an email. So simple phrases like; can you do this or I am able to do that. Would be out.
Personally I think we should just start using the archaic forms just to confuse people.
Personally I think we should just start using the archaic forms just to confuse people.
If I get to compose emails like I'm Frog from Chrono Trigger, I am all about it.
Thou shouldst do as thou pleases.
- Hop around
- Call everybody "thou"
- Wield a cool sword
- Probably nail Queen Leene
Yeah, methinkest I art down.
This is usually a good point. However, from my reading of just the snippet and some quotes others posted (and without reading the article myself because I am lazy), it may be that they are prohobiting the inclusion of preferred pronouns. If that's accurate, then it means they are refining their bigotry to be more precise.
Oh that is absolutely the intention, but who doesn't like logical extreme
I actually looked up the standard and it is worded in a way that doesn't explicitly prohibit any specific thing. It just gives a list of things that can be included and says anything else is prohibited. That way they are not discriminating. They are just creating a formatting standard.
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Nazis love erasing peoples identity
A new day, another reason to hate conservatives and their authoritarianism.
Republicans sure love small government /s
They're not even pretending it's "just" about pronouns anymore. Now it's just overt racism. Not surprised they went for the indigenous first.
Incidentally, there are over 70,000 indigenous Americans living in South Dakota. Considering the state has less than a million people, that's not insignificant, so this is going to fuck over more than one or two people.
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That sounds like a clear first amendment violation to me. It’s not like a political affiliation either, gender and ethnic background are core to identity
On the one hand, I see what you're saying. It sounds much like something my savior Jesus would say.
On the other hand, something something fuck them queers and Injuns.
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