Gender pronouns in the workplace

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AlbertDerGrosse said:
No! I haven’t been here long but I’ve already expended the time and effort to assign a gender to each and every one of you according to my own biases about your avatars. Do not spoil this for me! 😡
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Check your biases, AlbertDerGrosse.

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AlbertDerGrosse said:
I’m only 30 so I still have quite a bit of time until I retire and I have no idea how much crazier this stuff is going to get.
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I have five years to go.

Five years. I just hope the DOD can stave off the insanity until then…

Five. Short. Little. Years.

I mean, I’ll have to work somewhere, but I’ll be in the enviable position of being able to be as selective as I like.
 
I may have to adopt an accent and pull a Rachel Dolezal, claim to be transracial, and insist that any pronoun abuse isn’t intentional but a consequence of my identity as a person for whom English isn’t a first language (and you have to respect that identity).
 
Did you read the rest of the note? “I’d be happy with you to discuss…”

Either English isn’t his first language or he doesn’t do a final edit before he hits “send.”
 
If you’re in Australia, male to male is ‘Cheers, mate’ ot ‘Thanks, buddy’ whatever the ages. When I’m in the US I just can’t get used to being called ‘sir’ by everyone. Even guys around the same age as me. And my wife is not entirely OK with being referred to as ma’am.
 
I think most companies remain traditional but will go along with this transgender nonsense because they’re afraid of being sued or labelled as bigoted.
 
That’s really it. And after awhile, maybe even the transgender people will call it quits to this.
 
MikeInVA said:
Hopefully he uses Mr. in his signature block to avoid confusion. If your name isn’t confusing, e.g. “Frank”, why do you have to list out your “preferred pronouns?” It seems like some kind of LBGT virtue signaling.
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I know a girl called Frankie.
 
Mate is also use neutrally.
Bradskii said:
If you’re in Australia, male to male is ‘Cheers, mate’ ot ‘Thanks, buddy’ whatever the ages. When I’m in the US I just can’t get used to being called ‘sir’ by everyone. Even guys around the same age as me. And my wife is not entirely OK with being referred to as ma’am.
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AlbertDerGrosse said:
This expectation to do more than just tolerate others’ lifestyles but to actually conform or perish terrifies me. I’m only 30 so I still have quite a bit of time until I retire and I have no idea how much crazier this stuff is going to get. I don’t have any beef with transgendered people and I usually will call you however you prefer to be called, but sometimes I may still slip, especially the further we get away from the actual dichotomy in gender. You want me to call refer to you as him instead of her? I could do that. I don’t think I’d be able to name a single one of the made up pronouns that are fashionable today even if I stood to win money on a gameshow.
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They/them is usually accepted by gender nonconforming folks.
 
The only time I heard of a girl named Frankie, was from the book, “the member of the Wedding”. She was a young tomboy and grew out of it.
 
I find that so funny. Ma’am is any woman slightly older than you personally or with any modicum of authority in the Southeast. And by authority I mean, the hairdresser cutting your hair is “yes ma’am”. The 16yr old babysitter is ma’am or “Miss Ashley” to the kids. Basically any woman who isn’t a close peer or your sister is “ma’am”.

So seeing a woman get upset at being called ma’am is like seeing her get upset that she is being treated respectfully!
 
This sounds nutty. But it could be addressing a very small problem brought about one of the earlier movements towards radical, atomic individualism.

When I was a kid everyone was Mr, Mrs, or Ms. Elders, superiors, and strangers were given respect by using these titles. But when I entered the workplace the idea of proper order was being abandoned. So now you referred to everyone by his first name. The titles disappeared. So it was possible to not know if someone was a man or woman if his name was Ashley, Kim or other names that both sexes are given.

I could see this as a way to clear things up in the modern mess. But that isn’t the reason. The reason is to further push the you can make up your sex ideology.
 
You must have looked younger. And when people ask my age these days-60- and they say, “you don’t look it” don’t be too confident and say thank you.
 
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