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[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Lol.

I can sorta understand the pronouns in the corporate email situation, especially if you've got to deal with a lot of foreign clients with unfamiliar names. The neo-pronouns kind of break that function though.

Personally I've always been of the mind that in the business setting, it really doesn't matter if you know your contacts gender right? I mean, you'll figure it out within about half a second of speaking to them or seeing them right?

Sure some Indian contact I might not know whether or not to write "dear sir, or dear madam" but I can just write "dear valued customer" instead, or just use the person's name. Which I'm going to have to do anyway if people fail to list pronouns which they invariably will.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The default is male in a professional setting, and always will be. The radfems seethe but anyone worth doing business with will issue a polite correction one time and be fine with it.

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

The radfems will seethe about it until some unscrupulous feminist ladder climber sees an opportunity to be a victim and eliminate her corporate competition.

Personally I'd just kick em out but the optics on that are bad since they like to play the mob.

Now granted that's a dangerous game to play because when the mob runs out of fresh meat you're on the menu but that would stop some of them.