Doesn't go far enough, remove pronouns from the email body too.
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Small government regulating pronouns in worker's email signatures.
Regulations For Thee but Not for Me
Does that mean no-one can call him 'President' Trump or 'Mr' President any more?
Nouns are words that name people, places, things, or ideas, while pronouns are words that replace nouns to avoid repetition, such as "he," "she," or "they." Essentially, pronouns serve a similar function to nouns but are used to refer back to them in sentences.
Getting an education is cool
Go for it
Thanks for the hot tip!
Not being a smarmy goit is cool
Go for it
Isn't president just a regular noun?
I agree with the sentiment but I wouldn't go as far as banning it. I'm for free speech even when I think it's stupid. I do admit of having preconceptions of people who do this though.
Also, feels like such a pointless thing to debate about as someone whose native language doesn't have gendered pronouns to begin with. Here everyone is they/them.
What sentiment do you agree with then?
Not including your pronouns on emails / online profiles.
Why though? It helps people know how to talk about you and takes nothing away from the ones who don't care about them
It hurts his feelings.
All fascists need to take dirt naps
Sorry to all the Blakes, Dylans, Ashleys, Francises, Shannons, Frankies, Charlies, Rorys, Blairs, Leslies, Angels, Billies, Sams, Kellys, Danas, Harleys, Adins, Caseys, and all the other non-binary/gender neutral names that I can't think of right now.
-signed a person with a non-binary name
Names are nouns not pronouns
Even for gender cishet people a Dylan, Casey or Sam might be a "he/him" or "she/her" and its just not obvious from the name.
So?
Does that mean we all have to waste our time with pronouns?
I can think of only one time I thought a female was a male from their name. It was not a problem. The name was Noel
Seems like the name argument is no argument at all
So?
Does that mean all have to waste time with pronouns?
Can think of only one time thought a female was a male from name. Was not a problem. The name was Noel
Seems like the name argument is no argument at all
Sounds good ma'am. Have a great one
Pronouns are optional. Nobody is forcing you to list them.
Oh you're not a sane person.
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For the life of me, I can't understand why they care about someone's sexual orientation or their pronoun.
I ran the numbers on sex changes and it's like .001 of the population. It's a non-issue.
The real issues are homelessness, inequality, Internet privacy, poisons in our food and workers' rights..
Not fucking pronouns.
The same can be said for all those years wasted shaming people into using gender neutral language and adding pronouns to communications
Maybe we should not waste any time on this
They don't care. The tactic is to have a minority that you can blame for all the bad things.
100 years ago it was the jews secretly running the world, today it's the evil trans people and immigrants conspiring to destroy The West™.
100 years ago they were also persecuting trans people. Here's a photo of them burning books in 1933, some of which were from the Institute of Sexual Science after it was raided by the Nazis. And it only got worse from there. Here's a whole article about it.
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Got to distract from the real issues somehow. Gotta keep that wealth extraction and concentrating system of exploitation alive. Can't have the slave rising up to overthrow their masters again...
For the life of me, I can’t understand why they care about someone’s sexual orientation or their pronoun.
They don't. It's classic divide and conquer tactics to package up the general population into nice bite-sized chunks that they can destroy individually with minimal resistance from the others. Exact same shit is how the Nazis rose to power.
And once again the population isn't ready....
"wE wOulD nEveR LEt tHAt haPpen hEre!" /headsand
- dipshits in the US who think we're somehow better than the average German citizen in the 1930s
Despite people perhaps still believing this, I believe it was largely disproven in the 1960s by the Milgram experiment.
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Finally. Something that will bring down the cost of groceries...
Don't you know that adding your pronouns to an email costs an entire 6-10 bytes? There are children starving in Africa and you're wasting your bytes on pronouns! Shame on you.
And, the tariffs will bring them up
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The communist leader of northern Venezuela is mandating how to conduct your business, how to write, how to speak.
Party of small government, rule of law and free markets.
Legal disclaimers often have pronouns, right?
"The information contained in this email message is intended only for the personal use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not an intended recipient of this email, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please immediately notify me by replying to this message and then delete this email from your system."
Malicious compliance it and replace all of the pronouns: "The information contained in this email message is intended only for the personal use of the recipient(s) named above. If the recipient is not an intended recipient of this email, the recipient is hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If the recipient received this email in error, please immediately notify John Doe by replying to this message and then delete this email from the recipient's system."
Fuck 'em. I'm sure with a bit of work they could come up with some stuff that renders it nearly unreadable.
Um, I didn't see where it said to replace pronouns with anything, only to remove them. So the correct verbiage would clearly be:
The information contained in this email message is intended only for the personal use of the recipient(s) named above. If are not an intended recipient of this email, are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If received this email in error, please immediately notify by replying to this message and then delete this email from system.
So...so fragile