Just been told to remove my pronouns from my Teams profile

[Horrace]

I'm weak 🤣
My manager just phoned me to say there has been some serious complaints made about me that he must urgently address.
I panicked.
In the Pronouns section of my Teams profile, I have

'Take a Wild Guess'

Its been there for a few years. Its finally been noticed and I've been told to take it down because it's made someone or more than one possibly, FEARFUL of me.

Depends what you count as child abuse - I’d say an ideology that encourages the medicalisation of children that results in long term ill health is child abuse.

So it's harassment now? Christ when did everybody become such a wet lettuce? We've gone from 4 hurty words on a woman's work profile that are enough to apparently cause fear in others to it being deemed harassment.

4 words. 4 little hurty words in response to the most ridiculous fucking question ever that only exists because a portion of society are so incredibly precious and Narcissistic that they've managed to affect the English language. Pathetic.

So you take that up with the company, not write childish things to ridicule and intentionally be antagonistic which the OP has stated she's done.

I can't believe adults act like that in a workplace. Don't write anything if you don't agree with it. Or if it offends you that the section is even there, raise it as an issue.

People are allowed to be GC (I am), but not go about ridiculing and being antagonistic just because they don't agree. It's called being a decent human being and knowing how to behave at work.

But popular with all the right people.

YANBU, OP.

The promotion and push of gender ideology among children is child abuse. If you can’t or won’t see that, that’s your problem.

Gender ideology is sexist, homophobic and child abusing. What kind of workplace wants that in their organisation?

I can’t believe that adults push this ideology in the workplace. That is much much more concerning than people laughing at it.

I am mocking them

Literal Violence™

My octopus account has in the pronouns section ‘ I don’t believe in that nonsense ‘

How did we get to this point of insanity?

There is a ideology attached. You may not understand what faith belief you signed up to but you are buying into the idea that girls/women think and act in a way which is different to boys/men and it is the act or though not your sex which puts you in the girl/woman or boy/man box.

Is your sex relevent to your role?
Are you in a role which requires physical contact or consent when your sex is relevent to the other party?

If you want to avoid confusion replace sex/gender markers and add you initials which removes the need for staff to even try work out your sex.

The tone isn’t exactly professional and is obviously making your colleagues uncomfortable. You should change or remove it.

OP I love and am TERRIFIED of you in equal measures 😂

Why should we confirm to utter bollox?

I DGAF if I'm liked at work, I'm there to get paid, nit make friends 4 Lyf

Did your employer insist everyone added pronouns? I'm unclear

Don’t babe me, I can’t stand the term. Perhaps you meant the person I was replying to who used it.

Good point. If we're serious about DEI, maybe we should consider displaying all of our protected characteristics in our email signatures?

Marie Martin
Recorded as female at birth
She/her
Age category: 35-49
White
French national - currently speaks English to upper intermediate level
Atheist
Lesbian in a civil partnership
Has one child under the age of 2
Works flexible hours due to severe migraines

Sorry but if you're deliberately intending to antagonise or mock then it's completely right that you're asked to remove them.

At that point it's not about taking a stand, you're just having a go for the hell of it and that shouldn't be tolerated in any workplace.

I find the whole thing stupid so I just leave mine blank. There's no need to be a dick about it.

If that sentence makes a person uncomfortable they are extremely privileged 😳

Maybe im thick but i dont get the argument. I didnt think trans people claimed that they were actually the opposite sex. I thought they claimed woman as a state of mind distinct from female as a biological fact. If sexual attraction has a biological basis how is that connected to identity as a state of mind.? Like i said, maybe i just dont get the argument.

Change them to 'say what you/see'.

change them to Empress/Goddess... let them tremble in your presence

I blame that #BeKind crap

Thank God I'm freelance and don't have to deal with nonsense like this in the workplace any more. I'd be tempted to fuck with them OP and change my pronouns every month.😉

Then you are a bully and I hope it’s taken further.