Asking someone’s pronouns is as important as finding out their name

[SamW98]

https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/13/talking-about-pronouns-isnt-a-chore-its-like-asking-someones-name-19491080/amp/

No it really isn’t. Does anyone really meet a new person in a social setting and say ‘hi I’m Doris and my pronouns are hee/haw, what’s your name and pronouns?

I've now been re-educated, my pronoun is aarrrrr.

I am (of course) pirate gender. It was all those sea shanties.

If you don’t mind I would like to borrow your pronoun for a day. Next Tuesday, 19 th September to be exact, which as we all know is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

can I choose 'literal/literals' as my pronouns because I identity as myself and a one-off?

well since you aarrrsked so nicely.

☠

Drunken sailor, amethyst, calll me what you want, as long as you call me

But before or after favourite condiment or third favourite insect?

This thread has reminded me that next Tuesday is Talk Like a Pirate Day ☠️ I think the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster might be captured though 😔.

I'm unreasonably irritated by the whole she/her mantra. Even if you buy into that shit you only need to say "she". We know how grammar works

I was in a zoom meeting with a he/his the other day. I guess he/him just wasn't proprietorial enough.

Reminds me of my favourite Christmas cracker joke -

Why are pirates called pirates?

.........

They just arrrrr.

Well. Exactly. There’s just so much work to do here.

😂😂😂

Was that the young girl who used 🙄 the pink heart for her femine days and the blue heart for her masculine days, but had now decided to go by they/them unless ... God knows after that. I watched it thinking one day little girl you will realise how you wasted a decade of your life where you could be having carefree fun instead you spent it despairing of the fact that people struggled using a different coloured heart neo pronoun depending on which way the bloody wind was blowing that morning and whether you had left the house in trousers or a skirt!

But It's nothing to do with stereotypes??

OK!!

An association whose events I used to attend now has pronoun badges.

If I ever go again I am so demanding a different badge for each day of the event.

Any pushback and they'll get the full "transphobic bigot" rant.

Mine

What's a pirate's favourite letter?
You'd think it'd be Arrr but his true love be the C.

I work for an American company and I would say the majority of my American colleagues do it, or at least have it set in the company directory so it automatically gets added to their name in video calls. Possibly they set it once and forgot about it. Lots of our Indian and Japanese employees do too. They consider it a courtesy to help out people unfamiliar with Indian and Japanese names.

Brits and other Europeans universally don’t bother.

In the olden days, I would have said it's quite useful if Chris, Sam, Phil and Jo stated their pronouns because I hated calling someone she a he - I felt sexist for assuming a male default.

Obviously Grace, Anne, Kylie and Andrea didn't need to, neither did Elliot or Isaac.

Nowadays a male or female name is no guarantee of sex.

(Austin still seems to be both however.)

In fact thinking about it when it was introduced a few years ago I’m pretty sure it was pitched at helping out foreign colleagues who might be embarrassed at not knowing how to refer to someone as they couldn’t figure out your sex from your name. Of course if you are say, Dutch, you would just ask, but for other nationalities that would be very embarrassing.

😂😂 me too

It has not yet been made compulsory for us but when it is, as I foresee it will, that is “dr/dr’s” or you can just fuck off with your bollocking nonsense. Such utter virtue signalling titwankery.

It just dawned on me that with these totally personal pronouns, why would we even need names?
Names are totally oppressive! Assigned to you by someone you barely know sometimes even before your birth.
Sometimes they aren’t even unique to you; oftentimes oodles of others in your school have the same name as you.

Let’s do away with names and just wait for the kiddywinks to tell us their pronouns, and all will be well.

Henceforth me pronouns are Eternal Ruler, Supreme Chancellor of This And Any Known Galaxy in This Universe And Beyond / Now.

My line manager added pronouns recently to her email signature; I def lost some of my respect for her.

only pronoun badge I’ll agree to wear says ‘Fuck that shit’!

Same here. Or at least yell "I don't fucking CARE!"

My DS delighted me yesterday when he mentioned that one of his teachers introduced herself with pronouns and asked the class if they would like to share theirs. He said not one of them did. Apparently she was very disappointed. According to him, no one in the high school is interested in this shit.