Women's IssuesWhat is with she/they and he/they pronouns?

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[–]Lessom 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I think it’s ridiculous. I’ve recently seen it happening in the signatures of work emails. Something I used to dismiss and joke about but has become a reality. It’s happened at least twice this year. It was two woman identifying as she/hers and I just rolled my eyes. Well at least, it’s easier to identify annoying attention seekers so I can keep my interactions with them as minimal as possible.

From my understanding, their reasoning behind it so we don’t assume people’s genders because words have no meaning these days. Anyone can be a woman, man or nothing at all based on their feelings at that moment in time.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Pronouns in email signatures is becoming a big thing at my workplace. I feel like I'm living in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". It just kills me every time I see someone I thought was intelligent and based adding pronouns to their signatures. None of these people are trans, of course, so this just serves to enforce 'cisheteronormativity' (spellcheck hates that word as much as I do). I know none of these people understand gender identity ideology. They're just doing it because they think Trans is Gay 2.0, or to tick a box on their performance review (because diversity and inclusion is a big thing now).

[–]Kai_Decadence 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I haven't noticed this at my job yet but I did notice that when I went to see my doctor back in July last year when I caught Covid. The fill out sheet had "Man", "Woman", "They" on it...