Gender pronouns in the workplace

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I can’t believe this is happening.
I’m sorry.

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Nope. Not at all. He is from Check Republic, and that name is more common.
 
Alex337 said:
Mate is also use neutrally.
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Bradskii:
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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In my area that wouldn’t be the case. It’s more male oriented. That said, there isn’t a generally used female equivalent. Although I have found that ‘girl’ is quite common these days if you know the female reasonably well. As in ‘Thanks, girl’.
 
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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If you’re in the South, that’s obligatory. We’d get a pop to the head if we didn’t say “yes sir” “yes ma’am”.

It’s cultural down there. Nothing is meant by it. We consider it polite.
 
I just looked up a list of pronouns. My preferred pronoun is “several”. “Anything” isn’t bad either.
 
margaret42 said:
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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Oh, I know. It’s a blessing (I do look far younger than just two days shy of 45 - that picture is current, LOL). But it’s also a curse. Not in this case - but even my husband has commented that he’s noticed I sometimes am treated far younger than I am. I’m no judge of age so I try to speak to everyone the same.

I just hadn’t been called that in so long it basically startled me. I was like - who is she talking to? LOL that’s me. 😆😆😆
 
I’m not much concerned about this issue but to some people it’s important. I don’t mind respecting their wishes. In my other language everyone has the same pronouns but there are a lot of them because you have to distinguish inclusive, exclusive, singular, dual and plural and whether a thing own controls of encloses the owner or the other way around.
 
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Bradskii:
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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If you’re in the South, that’s obligatory. We’d get a pop to the head if we didn’t say “yes sir” “yes ma’am”.

It’s cultural down there. Nothing is meant by it. We consider it polite.
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Wherever I’ve been I find everyone extraordinarily polite. More so than most places I’ve been. And it didn’t take long for me to start using ‘y’all’…When I start saying ‘classic rack’ and ‘dot cam’ I know it’s time to move on.
 
As an Englishwoman from the Midlands, I generally call everyone Chick. Gender specific might be Lass or Pal, Chap or Fella.
The joy of colloquial slang.

I have no time for people designating their own personal pronouns, particularly when they are actually made-up words like ze and zir. It’s one thing to have preferences about your name. It’s quite another to demand that the rules of a language bend to accommodate your personal foibles, and try to make everyone round you tied up in knots to not offend you by using the new version of language usage you have created. Honestly, it the height of narcissism.
 
Bradskii said:
Wherever I’ve been I find everyone extraordinarily polite. More so than most places I’ve been. And it didn’t take long for me to start using ‘y’all’…When I start saying ‘classic rack’ and ‘dot cam’ I know it’s time to move on.
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LOL.

Few things are funnier than my husband slipping with “y’all” (he’s from Southampton).
 
The argument is that gender is a “spectrum,” so somebody could theoretically be a bit Ms-ish and a bit Mr-ish. So you’re expected to refer to the person with one of any number of neologisms.

I don’t follow it at all, but that’s how I’ve heard it explained.

In this interview, at timestamp 6:00, somebody actually makes the argument that people should program people’s names and preferred pronouns into their Smartphones. This elitist drivel fails to acknowledge that a quarter of the Canadian population still doesn’t carry a Smartphone.
 
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Isn’t this where the idea of the emerging new Mx. in place of Mr/Mrs/Miss comes from?
 
I am amused that people are putting every variation of their preferred pronoun in the signature. If I say “he” that means it will also be “his, him”. They are al variations of “he”. You don’t need to list them. Unless…I wonder if you are allowed to swap between gender pronouns based on subject? So you could be he/her/him? She/Sir/them? The permutations are exciting! Or does that break the rules too much?
 
Okay, I haven’t read all the posts in this thread yet.

But the big question I have is, why is it necessary to include this in an email signature? Even if you want to use some unexpected and/or non-traditional pronouns, is this something that needs to be attached to every email you send? When I respond to someone in an email, I don’t use pronouns to refer to that person because the email is going to him or her. So why do I need to know this?
 
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Just like you, it’s not going to be part of my time schedule to be unnatural with others. I’ll respectfully call a transgender by whatever name they want, but a real name- Mary, Fred, etc.
 
On second thought, maybe being called “maam” is better than being called an “old bag”!
 
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