Edinburgh University to hand out pronoun badges

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www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/08/25/edinburgh-university-student-union-officials-hand-pronounbadges/

I will break every rule in MN's be nice to trans policy if I even make a comment.

Have you read the comments - they are hilarious....

Good Mor Ning Chill Dren.
Good Mor Ning Miss.
To Day Ay We Will Learn How To O Bey.

The comments are very heartening

Dd is going to Edinburgh next month.
She says her pronouns are 'I' and 'me' 'mine', my'. If people are talking to her 'you' is fine though they can use 'thee' if they insist.

She has had emails from the Student Advice service with a note of the writer's preferred pronouns at the bottom.

I can't see her getting very involved in the Students' Association. She is autistic and has been known to confuse pronouns accidentally. I hope their disability awareness is also very good.

My preferred pronouns are standard, except that I require the first letter to be capitalised when written. This is critical to My self-identification as a supreme being wombat.

Students should bare in mind that gender is “fluid” so even if you have used a particular pronoun for someone in the past, this may not apply indefinitely

This is just ludicrous . So I should ask them every time I see them?

I'm afraid I will never be able to do this. I'd rather never leave the house again.

Employees at Edinburgh Students' Union are already putting their preferred pronouns in their mail signatures. Only time I've ever seen it done

But if one is replying to an e-mail one says "you" - why is this necessary?

Btw I'm on a mission to preserve the use of "one" as a gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun.

I am serious. There are times when "you" is not correct - example above.

Oh, nice "whataboutery". You sound like a whiny MRA saying that women in the West shouldn't even be feminists, because life is worse in Saudi Arabia ...

I'll be offended if anyone asks me what my pronouns are because it's fucking obvious that I'm a woman.

Oh, nice "whataboutery". You sound like a whiny MRA saying that women in the West shouldn't even be feminists, because life is worse in Saudi Arabia ...

Eh ?

Btw I'm on a mission to preserve the use of "one" as a gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun.
That is a cause worth promoting.

I really don't get this. If someone was talking to me and in a group about me them just use first names.

If you were talking about me where I wasn't present then it doesn't matter what you call me,

It just seems to be making an issue where there really isn't one. I have enough trouble remembering names let alone pronouns too.

Natasha Devon
I can't say anymore or I'll get banned

Btw I'm on a mission to preserve the use of "one" as a gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun

Nice one

I do love using 'one'

My mum did it all the time...you would never have thought she spent 13 years in an orphanage and then in one room in a slum tenament with her wayward mother and three sibling from two (other) different fathers

My mum did it all the time...you would never have thought she spent 13 years in an orphanage and then in one room in a slum tenament with her wayward mother and three sibling from two (other) different fathers

I am guessing she was a reader. That is where I learned to talk. Books.

It just seems to be making an issue where there really isn't one. I have enough trouble remembering names let alone pronouns too.
It is obedience training.

Yes she was thebewilderness

Not classics or anything like that but I remember when i was young reading her Nora Lofts books and she did love a Catherine Cookson style novel about women pulling themselves up by their boot straps

Like those Dynastic novels

At one point she had read or owned so many of those style books that my dad made her a laminated A4 booklet that she could take to the charity stores so she wouldnt double up...i still have it

Sorry

Very off point but its what i think of when i use 'one'

And ive killed the thread by talking about my mother

She would be so proud

No, you haven't Rufus. I love that story about your mother.

Btw I'm on a mission to preserve the use of "one" as a gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun.

A worthy mission. We need to preserve it on both sides of the Atlantic. I plan to do my part.

Rufustheyawningreindeer
If any thread deserved to die it was this thread.

Rufus that’s it

Am gonna start using one instead of u

That is it

lass has started a revolution

And thanks seneca , thebewilderness and littlbrowndog

Didactylos beat me to it with her (second on thread) post: my pronouns are "fuck" and "off".

One of the sabbatical officers is non-binary. And the LGBT+ society (Pride Soc) is very political. So I suspect that now there's a person with a "vested interest" in an official position it's being pushed.