• The Center Square: Federal employees reportedly told to remove pronouns from email signatures.
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Hope you’re not named Elle.

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Trump’s idol **inrich ***mler would be offended too!

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Or He-Man

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I guess Trump doesn’t want to be referred to as He/Him

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-appears-accidentally-declared-every-174749266.html
Hmmm, I see…

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This is just begging for malicious compliance.

You want to eliminate an entire part of speech? Then good luck trying to understand what the fuck my email is trying to say.

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Does the reader want to eliminate an entire part of speech? Then good luck trying to understand what the fuck the writer’s email is trying to say.

Could be fun. I bet ChatGPT could automate it.

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Exactly… Maybe have a boilerplate disclaimer at the top of each email that does include pronouns, just explaining that the following email has had all pronouns removed so as to comply with the new rule.

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“The following email has had all pronouns removed in compliance with blah blah blah. Readability has unfortunately, but obviously, been significantly reduced. Apologies will be made available at a later date.”

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Does the reader want to eliminate an entire part of speech?

Which one are they going to outlaw next? Verbs? Or Adjectives?

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DeepSeek can automate it

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You

FUCKING PRONOUNCE turns red and screams

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In the article it specifies you to remove pronouns from your email signature. Definitely less fertile ground for malicious compliance, but it’s still doable.

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End every email body with “For your response, I am referred to using (feminine/masculine/any/whatever) pronouns”

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Replace it with “[Insert Pronouns Here]”. Make sure to have your desk already cleaned out though.

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my new bio: (masculine neutral/masculine possessive)

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my new bio: (masculine neutral/masculine possessive)

Isn’t it nominative/objective?

I don’t see “he/his” or “they/their,” I see “he/him” and “they/them.”

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Probably! Been a long time since I’ve been to school.

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I put all of them in, ie he/him/his… just to remove ambiguity.

And pronouns remain in my sig. Ain’t going anywhere.

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but they banned mentioning gender, change it to (identifying with the societal archetype of the sex producing the small reproductive cell)

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It says email signatures.

And good; it’s ridiculous, virtue-signalling bullshit and you’ve got to let it go.

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It’s useful for people with unisex names like Taylor, Chris, or Jordan, especially in email, where you may not have any face-to-face contact.

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Or for people with names from cultures not associated with English naming standards such as Chinese or Indian cultures working in western companies or governments.

Pop quiz anti-pronouners! 星辰 Xīng Chén, girl or boy? 美莉 Měi Lì, girl or boy?? Would you like to buy a pronoun now?

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The first is male, the second is female, but I study Chinese so that’s not very fair of me.

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Yes, that’s a reasonable position.

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You fuckers need to let your vice-signaling go. Funny how “freedom” to ignore pronouns quickly gives way to banning them. The only freedom you guys seem to care about is the freedom to be ignorant pieces of shit.

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Yeah, turns out reality is more nuanced than that.

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And good; it’s ridiculous, virtue-signalling bullshit and you’ve got to let it go.

You’re expressing a VERY strong negative reaction on words in an email signature. Why are you so threatened by what someone puts in their email signature? How does it challenge or change what you are that you’ve put so much thought into it to get this angry about it?

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Because it’s very, very silly identity politics and the majority of people agree. You’ve got to let it go and focus on important things, like the insane and ever-increasing wealth inequality.

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Identity politics for email signatures? There was no federal policy around email signatures like this until folks like you decided to make it politics forcing removal.

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I’m been told that it is not just virtue-signaling (it is), but that it is also a virtue (allyship) in action. Normalizing sharing that information make it easier for people that have a more complex relationship with their gender than I do.

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