"Your pronouns"

Surely it backfires too, I refuse to listen to a Podcast that completely unnecessarily states pronouns in the blurb and at the beginning of each episode.

I quite often use initial-surname - JK Rowling style.

Having to put your pronouns on company emails blows that out of the water.

Yet another change that has the potential to make life harder for women. It’s bollocks.

I don’t want to put ‘my’ pronouns on my email signature but there is more and more pressure to do so from certain sections of our organisation.

I'd start identifying as pronoun fluid. Fuck 'em.

From your title I thought you'd be like me. You see, I only accept "you/your/yourself" pronouns used about me by others. I understand this may be confusing when discussing me in the third person with someone else, but this is an important issue for me. Daily life is very hard with all the times people around me get this mixed up and say it's "difficult" or "doesn't obey the rules of grammar."

They already use "you/your" every day but somehow it's impossible to make sure to do it for me, every time? Ridiculous and discriminatory.

My biography will look rather unusual, it is true, but that's a small price to pay for validating the identity of people who have too long been ignored and mistreated. Think about it: "second person"? That's practically "second-class citizen." You deserve better, and so do you and you and all the other people like me and you.

Thanks @JackyHolyoake I’m not going to, and they’re not people who can put any real pressure on me, just the more woke areas of our organisation trying to get people to conform to their way of thinking

I don’t want to put ‘my’ pronouns on my email signature but there is more and more pressure to do so from certain sections of our organisation.

Thought and speech cannot be compelled ... both are fundamental human rights.

See Articles 18 and 19 of Universal Declaration if Human Rights:

www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Think this is a really good point.
Stereotype threat decreases performance on any task that involves groups and fields of diversity. Stereotype threat reduces achievement on tests in situations where the stereotypes are relevant.
(Ex. Academic environments, test performances, men vs. women in: math, driving, sports, professional fields. Homosexual men in childcare, old people and their memories, and Asians in math.)
If in a work situation women are asked to focus on their gender it could have negative effects especially in predominantly male situations. Imagine going round the room and being asked to declare your ethnicity.

Pronouns are creeping in more and more at my workplace. I don’t want to put ‘my’ pronouns on my email signature but there is more and more pressure to do so from certain sections of our organisation.

3rd person pronouns are chosen by the speaker to describe how they perceive the person they reference. They do not 'belong' to the person being referenced.

Here's one journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9280.00111

The whole premise is flawed, pronouns don't belong to individuals.

Slightly off topic but my name is welsh and I spells a bit like Mayor. For a while when writing emails for work and internships and if the recipient was foreign they would assume my first name was some type of male honorific and I saw firsthand how networking worked for men: men were so nice to me until they worked out I was female in which case the lovely emails abruptly stopped

There was a bit of a desktop research where a chap and his female colleague switched names and sexes on emails for a week. It was quite a notable experience for him.

I am fairly sure Cordelia Fine covers this in Delusions of Gender and she is pretty good with her referencing so you should find details in there.

One example: www.apa.org/research/action/stereotype