Has anyone else noticed ASOS doing this

[TheMurk]

Maybe I’m an old fogey and this is cool but...

On ASOS Instagram they are putting (she/her) or (he/him) Etc after the names of the blogger or whatever they are pictured in their posts.

This is obviously something to do with this preferred pronouns thing - is this something people are doing now? Do we really need to confirm that Molly Mae Hague who appeared on the most heterosexual television show ever likes to be referred to as she or her?

The implication is that everyone has thought about this and assigned themselves with their preferred pronouns as if there is to be some ambiguity about it just from looking at the person,

I mean. Really?

I noticed it on FB this afternoon. I didn’t know the model so assumed she was transgender. It was just her sitting down from behind.

I feel like this op. They have started to do this at my workplace in email signatures. Luckily I haven't been asked to do this specifically.

I don't understand what's wrong with assuming and then being corrected politely and then using a person's preference going forward. Y'know, like grown-ups.

@Redcrayons this is the pic of molly Mae I’m talking about... I bet she won’t be pleased to know that people assume she’s trans because of this but you’re right, to me it implies the matter is not straightforward and we need to be guided to the right answer.

I don’t know anyone who is not just a man or a woman in the trAditional sense. And no one at work.

So this I find most bizarre.

Attention seeking nonsense.
Companies/people desperate to show how 'woke' they are.

There's no getting away from any of it now. It's even reached bloody video games. Look at the hell on over the last of us 2. Men and TRAs attacking it, death threats to one of the voice actresses.

It's a fucking game!

It's all too bloody weird, I swear I hear twilight zone music.

@Smashtastic

I feel like this op. They have started to do this at my workplace in email signatures. Luckily I haven't been asked to do this specifically.

I don't understand what's wrong with assuming and then being corrected politely and then using a person's preference going forward. Y'know, like grown-ups.

This. Surely if you dont know some one you cross this bridge when you introduce yourselves to each other? It doesn't need addressing specifically for each person.

Seems very odd given that with the vast majority of people it would be fair to assume which pronouns they would prefer.

The one transgender person I know (female to male), named Jack, it's kind of obvious that they are a 'he's, if anyone gets it wrong, it's no big deal. He politely corrects them and life goes on? Why the need for a big public display about this, especially with a 'celebrity' where I would think it's pretty obvious she goes by 'she's?