Women who use 'she/her' ??

[WineGetsMeThroughIt]

I've noticed this in many social media profiles, but I also saw it used today in an email signature from someone in a professional agency I'm working with. Why do women (who are very clearly women from their Instagram pictures or their own names) use '(she/her)' in their bio / signature after their name? Am I missing something here? Isn't it obvious? What is the point of this? Just really seems stupid to me, but then perhaps I've completely missed something...? 🤷‍♀️

Example of the signature:

Isabelle Winter (she/her) • Senior Account Executive

I'd have mine signed (bitch/lover child/mother saint/sinner)

if I cared

@SoapboxFox

Mine would be Not / Relevant

Borrowing this!

[quote SnickettyLemon]@stickygotstuckWhat I want to know is, why would anybody want to know my 'gender' (or even my sex) from my work signature? Why does it matter to them?
Have you failed to see the irony of your last sentence? Why does it matter to them?

It doesn't, yet here you are getting worked about it ![/quote]
Believe me Snicketty, I am not getting 'worked up'. Mostly because I am in the fortunate situation of it not affecting my working life, currently.

Having said that, maybe everybody should be concerned about being made to divulge information that's utterly irrelevant to their work (and nobody's business. What's next? Sexuality? Religion? Favourite colour?)

@justanotherneighinparadise

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NdE9CjkvTY&feature=youtu.be

This is where this ends.

what's even going on?

why are they called comrades?
why do they insist on hissing?????

I exchange dozens of emails in one day with strangers in my organisation I have never met nor am likely to meet. I’m not going to remember their pronouns regardless so it’s a waste of time. We have lots of offices across London and ultimately if someone wants to be known by different pronouns they will say so, to the people they work with every day. I can’t imagine they’d want their initial announcement to be via email to all and sundry. I know I wouldn’t.

They’re having a push in my organisation to do this. I haven’t done and I won’t be. If I’m told I “have” to do it, I will state that I am still deciding and I’m finding the pressure to make a choice triggering! That should shut anyone up!

@justanotherneighinparadise

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NdE9CjkvTY&feature=youtu.be

This is where this ends.

Jesus fucking Christ. What a zoo (I suppose that may be deemed offensive too? Note: I am not comparing them to animals, I do not expect them to use animal pronouns, I'm not saying their disabilities make them as dumb as a donkey, but seriously WTF. 😑

The world has no hope. Must we all wrap them into bubble wrap as well? What was this convention?

I wonder if the Popular People's Front or whoever they are ever made it to the end of that conference

Because they are woke. Let them be it gives them happiness. So long I am not forced by law to do the same I am happy.

Not read whole thread.

I'm a 6ft woman. I love heels, have long hair, wear make up and wear a lot of dresses and skirts.

Being 6ft, when I wear my gorgeous 3 inch heels I do tend to tower over people.

I've been called sir more than once. Usually by people registering the height and nothing else.

Does it bother me? Not really. Am I going to call them out for misgendering me? Nah, it was a mistake.

I don't put my pronouns on any bio. My name is a female name (though my surname is a masculine name)

I’m nhs and it’s never been mentioned. I haven’t noticed it in any emails but tbh I often stop reading them before the end. I mentioned that the equality and diversity online training was wrong in my first week (I’m not brave, it was anonymous feedback) and that was changed. The staff survey has “male” and “female” as answers in one section but neatly avoids asking a question.

Imagine if you had to declare against all your protected characteristics!

Jane Philips she/her, white, birth injury resulting in incontinence

@tinseloatcake

Imagine if you had to declare against all your protected characteristics!

Jane Philips she/her, white, birth injury resulting in incontinence

😂

It’s utter bollocks
Along with people saying ciswoman/man

And yet the vast, vast majority of us who identify as what these people wish to compartmentalise by using these offensive terms are never asked if we wish to accept them to describe us - and if we do protest, we're slapped down as trouble-causers, told they're neutral descriptive terms (you know, like he/she are for people of male/female sex) and that we have no business being offended or rejecting being referred to by them.

Everybody should be respected, but it is a two-way street.

If anyone applies for a job at my company with pronouns in their email signature, their CV goes straight in the bin.

I recently got several emails from a large company one first time I have seen they/them. So it’s becoming more widespread I think.

I can’t believe the NHS are insisting it should be voluntary if folk want to use it as they are transgender and other people want to use it support them or some other reason great bit it shouldn’t be compulsory. I like the fact that most people assume I’m a man as they definitely often treat you differently as a woman.

I personally have no objection to people who choose to put them in to let you know that their own circumstances are not what you might expect.

It's just the ones who apparently would not just tell you that they have a cat, but would also feel the need to point out that it's a feline one that has fur and whiskers, says miaow and likes scratching furniture and catching mice. As opposed to all of the other common types of cat....

Ugh. I try not to become aerated by the increasing number of women declaring their she/her pronouns for no apparent reason but it activates me in a way I don’t like about myself. That’s why I find this:

“@SoapboxFox
Mine would be Not / Relevant “ to be inspired.

I used to have pronouns in my signature when I worked abroad. My name is an 'ethnic' name and so anyone not from my country won't necessarily know it's a female name. I found it helpful. Now that I live at home, I don't need to do that, so I haven't set it up. I'd have no issues with having she/her in there again though.

It's definitely a policy with some employers. So don't necessarily blame the person!

I’d rather if people were talking about me, they just used my name

Now try teaching EFL/ESOL when it becomes tricky as it is with teaching subject and object pronouns and so forth, only for the learners to see the usage of “they” or “them” to refer to a singular person.

The students already have trouble with repeated words like “that that” or “had had” and then add into homonyms. Such fun!

Omg these women make me want to heave. Mindless, thoughtless virtue signalling. I actively avoid them on linkedin.

@EishetChayil

If anyone applies for a job at my company with pronouns in their email signature, their CV goes straight in the bin.

Me too

Ugh. I try not to become aerated by the increasing number of women declaring their she/her pronouns for no apparent reason but it activates me in a way I don’t like about myself

Just remember it's often their employers making them do it. Roll your eyes, but don't think badly of the employees toeing the line to keep their jobs.