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Linkedin has just demanded my pronouns

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Missproportionate · 30/09/2021 15:50

I have ignored it.

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daisyjgrey · 04/10/2021 11:11

@334bu

Would you like to discuss why LinkedIn are making transphobic requests of their members, daisy?
Not really, either answer it or don't. It doesn't matter. It's a social media page, not your tombstone.
KittenKong · 01/10/2021 07:49

I got asked a few times but ignored it. They don’t ask anymore. I manage the SM for work and have said that staff should not include this on their work profiles as it looks unprofessional. I don’t accept contacts who have this and dump those that do.

I can’t be bothered with this nonsense. It’s not relevant at all. And it’s always feminine looking women sheher.Hmm

Oblomov21 · 01/10/2021 06:31

Good grief. So what happens next after worms meeting?

Whinginadeville · 01/10/2021 06:00

My pronouns are bloody and obvious but I'm retired so nothing to lose I think if you're still working ignore for as long as you can

McDuffy · 30/09/2021 22:22

The apostrophe was intentional but jars slightly, sorry Grin

McDuffy · 30/09/2021 22:21

I reckon 1/4 of my contacts have them and then three at least have them in their actual name so it comes up as Jane McDuff (it's/wank) shared a link

PineappleCakes · 30/09/2021 21:54

@secular111 Comrade is an inspired choice! If I ever have to succumb, I'm going to chose comrade, thanks. (It'll play right into my ethnic heritage too, that'll fuck up some brains.)

BlameItOnTheBlackStar · 30/09/2021 21:49

Who are they so desperate to appease? It's so craven.

NotTerfNorCis · 30/09/2021 21:02

Some higher-ups (managers, HR) have adopted pronouns in their signatures at work. To me it's a massive cringe. Makes me lose respect for them immediately.

BlameItOnTheBlackStar · 30/09/2021 21:01

Quite I few people I know have them now. It makes me think less of them tbh.

secular111 · 30/09/2021 20:32

You have to look hard on LinkedIn for anyone with pronouns. I looked through my contacts and couldn't find one, other than my DH.

DH has set his - Comrade/comrade in LinkedIn. His Dad was a union convenor, so he still retains the socialist thinking he grew up with. His opinion of the Left now in Britain is unprintable.

Comrade/comrade is probably the ultimate non-binary pronoun. I'm thinking about employing it myself -and best of all, when prompted to reveal my pronouns in a meeting, whether in-person or in Zoom/Teams, Comrade has to be the ultimate killer response!

Jaysmith71 · 30/09/2021 20:13

LinkedIn began in co-founder Reid Hoffman's living room in 2002.... Today, LinkedIn leads a diversified business with revenues from membership subscriptions, advertising sales and recruitment solutions under the leadership of Ryan Roslansky.

But No Pronouns

about.linkedin.com/?trk=homepage-basic_directory_aboutUrl

BlameItOnTheBlackStar · 30/09/2021 19:57

It's so fucking retrograde. Why does anyone even need to know or ask? Why, on a site that's meant to be about work, is my sex the most vital fact for me to offer people? Are we all supposed to pretend that we're blind and can't tell what sex people are?

334bu · 30/09/2021 18:13

"Ensure the right of all persons ordinarily to choose when, to whom and how to disclose information pertaining to their sexual orientation or gender identity, and protect all persons from arbitrary or unwanted disclosure, or threat of disclosure of such information by others." Yogyakarta Principle 6F

McDuffy · 30/09/2021 18:11

I tried going on LinkedIn today and all the she/her-ing jarred so much that I find it almost unusable.

VladmirsPoutine · 30/09/2021 18:08

No.

334bu · 30/09/2021 18:00

Have you read the Yogyakarta Principles?

VladmirsPoutine · 30/09/2021 17:56

How is asking transphobic?

334bu · 30/09/2021 17:52

Would you like to discuss why LinkedIn are making transphobic requests of their members, daisy?

daisyjgrey · 30/09/2021 17:40

I highly doubt they 'demanded' them and you've ignored it anyway.

Soooooo? Would you like to discuss the weather or something?

jenny5000 · 30/09/2021 17:32

Have you seen their latest TV ad?

Hoppinggreen · 30/09/2021 17:26

They give you the option (which I won’t be taking), they aren’t demanding them.

Franca123 · 30/09/2021 17:24

I was first asked this a while back. What I find interesting is that virtually no one in my network has them. What does that tell you? Everyone thinks it's bollocks.

AlfonsoTheDinosaur · 30/09/2021 17:05

If they ask me, I will ignore the request.

BlameItOnTheBlackStar · 30/09/2021 16:25

Oh is this the latest bullshit update from LinkedIn, which does nothing to improve its functionality whatsoever? It hasn't rolled out to me yet.

Load of utter bollocks woo gender shite.