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Asda's new pronoun badges for staff

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BessyK · 08/06/2020 18:41

My BIL who works at our local store has just received this information, he thinks Asda's gone mad. Asda are also funding Diversity Role Models with £100,000 over the next year. Looks as though they're jumping in with both feet.

Asda's new pronoun badges for staff
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Thisismytimetoshine · 09/06/2020 16:39

In what way could it make their lives easier?

LemonadeAndDaisyChains · 09/06/2020 16:32

"For colleagues who wish to wear them" is what jumps out to me there.
So where's the problem, as it doesn't sound like they're making everyone wear them?
Just you can if you want.
If it makes life easier for trans men and women that's a good thing, surely? It doesn't impact me in any way if some want to wear a badge or not.

Gibbonsgibbonsgibbons · 09/06/2020 16:05

I thought it was prices on rollback, not women's rights Star

Lordfrontpaw · 09/06/2020 15:58

I thought they stopped selling bullets?

RuffleCrow · 09/06/2020 15:22

"I indentify as a low paid employee of a company which sells bullets over the counter in the US." Do they have that one with hearts and rainbows? Angry

Crystaltree · 09/06/2020 15:19

Isn't it dreadful to use the OLD non inclusionary pride flag as a background on the badges too? I'm so triggered.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/21/inclusive-pride-flag-confronting-racism-lgbt

Lordfrontpaw · 09/06/2020 14:59

I think I would choose:

He
Her
Ask me for today's choice

or make up my own, after all - why not?

AlwaysTawnyOwl · 09/06/2020 14:44

Its the assumption that as a customer I would give a monkeys what someones pronouns are. Indicative of this narcisstic cult who think that we're all agog to see what someones inner identity is. Honestly, we're just looking for the carrots.

HermioneWeasley · 09/06/2020 14:02

Vag for life

😂😂😂😂😂

Lordfrontpaw · 09/06/2020 13:18

Triggered, you may say. So if I were to march up to the manager and say that I was made to feel uneasy/unsafe/distraught/queasy at the sight of the wee fools demanding I called them by a pronoun that did not match outer reality?

I would much much rather see a badge that indicated (if they wanted to wear one), say, that an assistant was hard of hearing, or had sight issues, or maybe had another issue ('don't be a shit to me if I forget something, I have early onset dementia'). I'd think 'great - this company actually cares and tries to look after their staff'.

But this guff? Give me a break - I want to get my pint of milk and get out.

WomaninBoots · 09/06/2020 13:13

Vag for life

Grin
JellySlice · 09/06/2020 13:05

I can't get uptight about this unless they are pressuring people to wear them. People can wear badges if they want.

Of course they can. And other people can ignore the badges if they want.

But I wonder, whose right to declare or ignore will Asda support if the badge-wearer (or an uninvolved ally) decides to complain?

Crystaltree · 09/06/2020 12:53

I don't want pronouns. I demand my full name is used in every utterance.

OhFuckThisShitSeriously · 09/06/2020 12:49

This thread is fucking funny (albeit for a sad reason). Vag for life Grin

NCed for this. The only time I have ever been asked about this in a shop (he would say "challenged", I call it "annoyed and patronised ") was in Asda funnily enough, by an employee who saw my "woman definition" tote bag.

He questioned me on where I bought said bag. He asked me very sincerely if I didn't "feel that people have the right to live their own lives". I agreed they totally do, for example I have the right to live my life not getting naked next to a rapist, in a woman only space, who had accessed that space by saying he was a woman.
(I wasn't quite as articulate as that obviously as it was RL and I wanted to get my scratchcard and a queue was building) I did ask why he thought I wasn't entitled to my rights at the expense of men exercising their rights. His response was that we should "agree to disagree" - how fucking telling is that!

Since that time I have included Asda women's toilets in the list of places where I (hopefully) raise awareness of this issue and women's rights. There is lots of useful information out there that we can provide to them after all...

Thinkingg · 09/06/2020 12:32

I can't get uptight about this unless they are pressuring people to wear them. People can wear badges if they want.

StrangeLookingParasite · 09/06/2020 12:22

@Z0rr0

Can you choose your pronouns on your badge? I'd like something like Chips / Beans.
This thread is getting funnier and funnier. Grin
teawamutu · 09/06/2020 11:50

@Antibles

I thought it was prices on rollback, not women's rights.
BURN 😁
Molocosh · 09/06/2020 11:37

Personally I don’t see how it’s helpful. Enforcing certain pronouns will not take away people’s inherent biases and prejudices, or prevent gender based inequality and discrimination. Gender cues are still visible regardless of pronouns. A muscular bearded man will still be treated as male regardless of what his badge says.

Z0rr0 · 09/06/2020 10:50

Can you choose your pronouns on your badge? I'd like something like Chips / Beans.

Antibles · 09/06/2020 10:41

I thought it was prices on rollback, not women's rights.

CourtneyLurve · 09/06/2020 10:15

There's a study that's been posted a few times that shows that women are discriminated against when their sex is highlighted in the workplace. Might be worth sending in.

StealthPolarBear · 09/06/2020 10:05

Lol at vag for life, love it

wrongsideofhistorymyarse · 09/06/2020 09:25

@HandsOffMyRights

I have a vag for life, Asda.
Chapeau!
SunsetBeetch · 09/06/2020 09:08
Grin
HandsOffMyRights · 09/06/2020 08:42

I have a vag for life, Asda.