Yes or no: Do you list your pronouns on your social media and email signature?

No, though I have been getting pressure from work to do so. I'm one of the only holdouts.

Yes (Queen, Goddess Divine)

surveysays wrote:

We're running dangerously low on pearls to clutch.

China tested TWO nuclear-capable orbital hypersonic missiles the other day which analysts say "defy the laws of physics" and is unlike any weapon the US is capable of fielding.

Meanwhile, our woke military leaders and State Department are looking for imaginary white supremacists and tweeting about pronouns.

We're running dangerously low on time as a free country.

Nope. Only way I would is in some form of snarky rebellion(ze/zim).

Liberals are morons wrote:

surveysays wrote:

We're running dangerously low on pearls to clutch.

We're running dangerously low on time as a free country.

Pearl shortage intensifies.

I don't have my pronouns in my profiles, however I understand it's not my decision to choose what people are allowed to do with their lives.

Liberals are morons wrote:

surveysays wrote:

We're running dangerously low on pearls to clutch.

China tested TWO nuclear-capable orbital hypersonic missiles the other day which analysts say "defy the laws of physics" and is unlike any weapon the US is capable of fielding.

Meanwhile, our woke military leaders and State Department are looking for imaginary white supremacists and tweeting about pronouns.

We're running dangerously low on time as a free country.

Classic conservative with their obsession with China. Just move there already.

rojo wrote:

While I do think it's absurd that the English language is always defining things by sex , the answer would be no.

I do wish instead of he/she we had better gender neutral words. Im think in the year 2021 we should be thinking less of gender/sex and it's weird as the so-called super liberals are taking us back 100 or 150 years where your gender or sex was determining of almost everything - like whether you could vote, be free, etc.

PS. That being said, I'm fine with the use of Mx instead of Mr or Ms. Or Mrs. It's non of your damn business if whether your business colleague is married or not.

I do not use them and I also think that we should have gender neutral pronouns for third person singular.

- The need to introduce pronouns or guess a person's gender would be eliminated.

- We would no longer use "they" to refer to a single person. It is grammatically awkward to use a plural pronoun to refer to a singular person and implies that the person is somehow fundamentally different than the rest of human race. It does not help build acceptability.

- Writing sentences that refer to a noun whose gender is unknown would be much simpler. "A doctor must be honest with ___ patients." Traditionally people used "his", then they switched to the more accurate but cumbersome "his or her". Then it was picking "his" or "her", sometimes alternating in the course of an essay. Now "their" is apparently allowed. None of these are as stylistically pleasing as having a simple singular possessive pronoun without gender.

- "He" and "she" would still exist obviously and people would use them but they would eventually go the route of other abandoned English pronouns like "thee" and "thou".

No, it is a stupid fashion which tries to suggest that not knowing what sex you are is widespread.

Excellent idea. Too bad it won't happen.

BeefRunnerRyan wrote:

Yes.

It's a small gesture I can make to make the world a more inclusive place for those who feel there is little representation for their experiences. Having grown up in a rural area where being different was looked down upon, I know what it's like to be LGBTQ and feeling like there is no one to talk to. If including my pronouns in an online profile helps someone to feel like they're not alone and do have someone to reach out to when they need to talk, I'm here for that.

I agree and your post is likely to inspire me to do the same, and I haven't up to now out of laziness and I wasn't really informed until this thread motivated me to research it.

I've always written 'their' as a neutral pronoun, as in 'a doctor must be honest with their patients' - always thought it was perfectly ok English and not an ideologically forced word. That was from 30 years ago though, way before any of this stuff started. I don't see why people don't adopt it, unless it would be an anti-climax for the hotheads.

And to answer the OP, no, I don't and wouldn't except as a subversion tactic.

As a transexual furry, it/that likes to be mysterious.

I work at a University so yes I always do

seattle prattle wrote:

BeefRunnerRyan wrote:

Yes.

It's a small gesture I can make to make the world a more inclusive place for those who feel there is little representation for their experiences. Having grown up in a rural area where being different was looked down upon, I know what it's like to be LGBTQ and feeling like there is no one to talk to. If including my pronouns in an online profile helps someone to feel like they're not alone and do have someone to reach out to when they need to talk, I'm here for that.

I agree and your post is likely to inspire me to do the same, and I haven't up to now out of laziness and I wasn't really informed until this thread motivated me to research it.

Done!

Thx.

Hello,

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