Signature /= footer

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  • @[email protected]
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    1191 month ago

    This is so stupid. I know plenty of cishet people who include their pronouns in their sig because they have a gender neutral name.

      • @Atropos
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        261 month ago

        That’s why I do it too!

        • nocturne
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          91 month ago

          That is why I do it three!

          My name tag at work also has my pronouns on it.

      • @Soleos
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        51 month ago

        Yes, this is why they care. It’s part of woke ideology.

      • @[email protected]
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        -61 month ago

        Of course it’s daft to mandate what people can and can’t put in their email footers but I don’t get why people put pronouns in footers.

        I’m cis male and he/him. Others can call refer to me as it/them or she/her if they wish.

        I dislike bananas but I don’t put that in my email footer.

        I haven’t seen it in a while anyway. I thought it was a fad from the late 10s

        • @shplane
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          141 month ago

          Privilege. Privilege is the reason you don’t understand.

          • @[email protected]
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            -21 month ago

            Ok, me and everyone else who doesn’t publish their preference for bananas in their footer I guess.

            • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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              21 month ago

              Is your dislike of bananas an important part of your identity, both personally and how you are treated by society at large? Does making it known that you dislike bananas either verbally or through your appearance lead to a realistic possibility of facing abuse and opression, not limited to potential loss of livelihood or life?

              If not, perhaps, you can see how the two things aren’t very comparable.

              • @[email protected]
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                01 month ago

                No, but how people refer to me in the third person is also not an important part of my identity.

                Someone’s choice of the pronoun to assign to me says more about them and the nature of our relationship than it says about my identity.

        • @Fedizen
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          29 days ago

          I know a guy who saw skin tone bandages at a school and lost his mind. He ranted about it for days. People I know still refer to him as the “skin tone bandage guy”

          Believe it or not, there are a number people who are “upset at pronouns in email guys” who lose their minds over this and its actually a public service to identify people with anger issues before they do real harm

          This is why those policies exist. If everyone has their pronouns in their bio/email, the people with uncontrolled anger issues don’t have clear targets.

          • @[email protected]
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            129 days ago

            Assuming everyone with an opinion contrary to your own has uncontrolled anger issues is probably a pathology. Maybe get that looked at.

            • @Fedizen
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              128 days ago

              There’s no assumptions. The guy was red faced and ranting for days over. Because he saw bandaids marketed at diversity.