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MS are handing out pronoun badges to their staff

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PostingForTheFirstTime · 07/11/2021 09:09

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10173649/M-S-diversity-managers-staff-pronoun-badges-customers-know-address-them.html

I will be emailing the appropriate departments advising them that gender ideology is still a hot political topic; its decision to allow men to use women's changing rooms made me so uncomfortable that I will not shop for clothes in their stores any more, but its decision to push a political stance with which I fundamentally disagree means I won't be using them at all from now on.

So sad, because I love their trousers and their Christmas party foods.

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YetAnotherSpartacus · 07/11/2021 09:23

Mr Parke's post was shared two weeks ago, on International Pronouns Day

There is an international pronouns day??? (or is that pronouns' day)? :)

Speaking of which, is there an international day for the poor abused apostrophe? It (I am assuming the apostrophe identifies as an 'it') deserves one - in fact its cause deserves attention by Amnesty and the UN.

IvyTwines2 · 07/11/2021 09:23

This is very intrusive. There seems to be this constant push to encourage people to lay all the details of their life out on a slab. In the case of someone in a customer-facing job, interacting daily with hundreds of strangers, this visual prompt for a stranger to start to think of them, not as a checkout worker representing the shop but instead an individual with this or that type of sexual behaviour is actually dangerous.

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PostingForTheFirstTime · 07/11/2021 09:17

The email address is hard to find

www.marksandspencer.com/MSContactUsCmd?storeId=10151&langId=-24&catalogId=10051&categoryId=282501&byEmail=9

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Gottasinggottadance · 07/11/2021 09:16

How ridiculous. I have zero need to know a shop assistant's pronouns.

Isthatthebestyoucando · 07/11/2021 09:15

I'm unclear whether this is optional, any employees of M&S would have grounds to pull them up if not.
I find them an easy one to boycott tbh.