Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day
Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day
Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News.
Signature /= footer
Resist
I always thought "uh, this thing with the pronouns in email signatures is just woke Nonsens, everyone knows what gender I am and want to be seen as" (and i still don't really get neo-pronouns, to be frank), but I now work in a very international environment, and I am so glad if people give me their pronouns, because I can't always tell which gender an Indian or Chinese name is. Honestly, it's just smart to add them and they just save everyone a lot of time/confusion.
I thought the same thing as well.
I have a few trans friends and neighbors who told me that basically when they came out and tried to change gender, no one would acknowledge their new identity. So it's a subtle way to inform other people.
Also, I have met more than a few people whom I had no idea of their gender. So it's actually great to read that pronoun because I don't like playing guessing games.
God forbid someone is named Riley, Sam, Charlie, etc.
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50 States, 50 Protests, 1day
Feb 5 @ your downtown.
Pass the word!
Trump and all his legions are unwiped assholes.
He's the pimple on my ass.
MAGA voters couldn't identify a pronoun in high school. How are they supposed to figure it out now?
They could read the Bible: I am he
Doesn't go far enough, remove pronouns from the email body too.
To it may concern. Notice did not complete task before deadline. Please can provide update? Look forward to reply.
You used it
Someone's about to get fired...
Don’t think whom is a pronoun, is it?
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.
They don't care, they just need an other to blame to get everyone scared of.
Well, eggs are back to $1 a dozen and everyone has housing and excellent healtcare coverage, so you can focus on renaming gulfs and prosecuting minorities...
Two core reasons:
- Demonization. They need someone to demonize, that distracts voters and the general populace away from their own misdeeds, and lack of functional policy. If you're too busy getting angry at the trans people, you won't strike against the Billionaires.
- Insecurity. If the world isn't actually as simple as you thought, your entire ideology is based on putting people into given labels and boxes to make your life easier, idealizing a nonexistent past, etc, then the world changing in any non-standard way is seen as something to be extremely afraid of. This is also what drives their concerns over immigrants ("replacing" their community's racial dynamic), homeless people ("not wanting to work" like they did), climate change (this couldn't possibly happen because then the industries and consumption you had your whole life would have to change), progressive education and scientific growth (learning new things about how what we used to think was wrong), etc. It's all rooted in just wanting things to stay the same.
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.
Trans are a small portion of the US and few people will care if they are rounded up and sent to camps. Doing so then normalizing that kind of behavior.
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.
They need an 'enemy' to rally people against and all the usual suspects are no longer politically expedient
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...
This is so stupid. I know plenty of cishet people who include their pronouns in their sig because they have a gender neutral name.
Or, in my case, for solidarity and normalizing it.
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
Of course. How else will we prevent future aviation disasters?
And lower the price of eggs
Eggs costing a lot is a good thing. Fossil fuels too. Switch to something better for the climate
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
Try stopping eating animals. Huge cut in groceries
Does that mean no-one can call him 'President' Trump or 'Mr' President any more?
Isn't president just a regular noun?
I’ve never done this, but this would make me start doing it
I'll start requesting people to use thee/thou soon.
And yet again, the Tangerine Palpatine is focusing on stupid shit.
Farmers unable to gather their harvest? The working and middle classes being squeezed into oblivion? Grocery prices skyrocketing? Unknown drones taunting our military bases? Military helicopters colliding with commercial jets?
Nah, none of that stuff matters! Instead we just focus on fucking pronouns in emails!
What an absolute fucking joke.
Edit: fixed a typo.
Nah, none of that stuff matters!
No, not to him, that's the point.
How much more deliberate in their oppressing and exploiting do those in power need to be before people stop expecting any different?
They're there to serve themselves, not society
What about the people who often have DDoD, OCIS, NCIS, CCNA, CCNP, A+, Ph.D, MA, MBA, BA, BS, K12, SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS after their names? Can we get rid of title abuse then never focus on pronouns?
Man, I spent a lot of money and time for my post-nominals, I don't care if they're 100% irrelevant to what I do, they're getting used in every god damn email.
(Helps that I only have one, though. And to be clear, I am happy to vehemently argue this point for months/years to steal focus from pronouns).
snrk A+... i always get a giggle when somebody actually includes that one
App can go except for "SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS". Because that one is SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS!
Mr,Mrs, Miss, JR, the III is dumb as fuck also.
Jesus fucking christ.
This would make a great pronoun or title attached to your name. Sign off every email with ...
John Doe
Jesus Fucking ChristI sometimes wish I were petty enough to legally change my last name to be she-her (i don't think that slashes are allowed?l
(They / Them)
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.
Mexican here. We're Northern Venezuela. We'll let you have Northern Cuba.
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.
All fascists need to take dirt naps
Sucks for anyone named Jamie or Alex. Trump is acting like he won in a landslide, even though he wasn’t even able to scrape together a majority of votes; more people voted against him than for him.
I thought he actually got the majority of voters this time?
He got a plurality of the voting population, not quite over 50% though.
Sadly it’s a mandate until people actually start pushing back.
even though he wasn’t even able to scrape together a majority of votes; more people voted against him than for him.
What makes you think he cares, or that it makes any difference? He's steamrolling ahead regardless and most of people in his way seem much happier to bend their knee than to resist in any meaningful way.
There's good reason we say you can't vote fascism away.
Or Kim!
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.
