My pronouns are I/me

[HelenaRavenclaw]

I've decided that from now on, if I'm asked to write or say my pronouns, I will simply declare they are "I/me". That is how I refer to myself in the first person singular, so those are indeed "my" pronouns!

Has anyone done this? What kind of responses should I expect?

I have thought the same OP. I've not ever had the opportunity to try it out yet but imagine it'll be met with derision.

Absolutely agree with you.

The only pronouns I can possibly least claim to are the ones I use to describe myself. Insisting that anyone else must describe me the way I want to be described is nothing less than coerced speech.

JellySaurus
I/me

W/ine

Here.

Or Wh/ine

I agree. I'm flexing my linguistic muscles for the day I'm asked to add them to our emails

I was recently replying to a survey for a US based company and used I/me for the pronouns section. I won't be getting any response from it but I enjoyed doing it.

I was going to do X/X on LinkedIn but didn't want a ban they're very onboard with gender ideology bullshit

@JellySaurus

Absolutely agree with you.

The only pronouns I can possibly least claim to are the ones I use to describe myself. Insisting that anyone else must describe me the way I want to be described is nothing less than coerced speech.

JellySaurus
I/me

It occurred to me how unfair the pronoun stuff is: we who don't believe in it get to do all the work of mangling the language & trying to remember who's what, while those who insist everyone dance to their tune do no work whatsoever because they get to use standard first person pronouns: I/me/my/mine/we/our, etc.

So I imagined a fairer world, in which anyone demanding others use non-standard pronouns about them, has to use a difficult-to-remember set of made up first person pronouns. The same set would be in general use for every such person.

Then I imagined an even fairer world, in which said person had to use whatever first person pronouns the person/group of people they were communicating with demanded.

I'm sure there's a better argument to not declare pronouns at all.
I'd always go with that rather than declare pronouns as some sort of joke or gotcha.

You surely can't be forced into adding pronouns. It should always be an option and one you shouldn't have to follow.

well, I am definitely not anti nouns as they are very useful.

The whole ideological mess is unfair: we who don't believe in it get to do all the work of Being Kind and giving up any and all rights we may have to dignity, safety, equality, equity, self-determination - not to mention honesty, clarity and safeguarding.

@TriceratopsTerf

W/ine

Here.

Or Wh/ine

Ha! love that

Don't play the game in any way, refuse to comply. Other people can do what they want but if you're forced into a corner just say the truth.

At present mine would be ‘slava Ukraini’, if asked

It's so tempting to declare myself bx/bllx. But it defies the point and draws me into this relentless, exhausting game of linguistic contortionism. The only way to win is not to play.

I can't be 'made' to declare pronouns. I can't be shamed for not standing up for women's rights amid this onslaught, albeit in the few small ways I can without being vulnerable to cancel-culture, which is a particular problem in my line of work. I can't say what I'd really like to say about my contempt for this nonsense, or about instantly thinking less of those I see colluding with it. But I can't be forced to smile nicely and go along with it, either.

I'll simply say 'that's not a practice I follow'. To any further pushing: 'I've responded, can we move on?' Or the now standard response, 'no thank you'.

When even silence or a polite refusal to chant someone's mantra risks your being labelled as 'Not Us', you know things have taken a turn toward the sinister.

I've chosen capitulating to this bullying (and this is what it is) as a hill to die on. I'm not ensuring others' comfort at the expense of my own. That's a hard NO. If someone 'misgenders' me I'll live. As a more-than-once victim of VAWG, I can emphatically confirm this is in no way comparable to being called 'cis'.

'Literal violence', it ain't.