Responded to work email about the importance of pronouns - it's my first (sort of, quite discreet) outing

[Whoarethegrownups]

I work in a university and it's welcome week. We've just had an email sent round the whole school to remind us how important it is to greet people in a friendly and courteous manner - including a reminder to include our pronouns when introducing ourselves and in our email profiles. I responded - just to the person who sent the email, not the whole school - about the issues around conscious/unconscious bias and stereotype threat when asking women to preface every conversation and emails with reminders that they are part of an oppressed group, and that whilst I understand these issues are tricky, we need to consider the whole community. It was very mild and polite and only to one person, but I'm still feeling anxious about having explicitly brought up gender critical issues at work. I'm waiting to see if I get a response ...

Age: old enough to not stand for this shit.

Exactly this.
Pronoun announcement just highlights an apparent lack of critical thinking, a non-belief in science and reality, and indicates the potential for exhausting interactions. I avoid pronouncers at all cost.

Actually, on the age thing I think I'd say, "I identify as 25." If you can make up your pronouns, why not your age?

I identify as the CEO. In fact I would even change my job title if we are just adding rubbish to our email footers.