So nothing more than a way to announce to your co-workers that you're a left wing nut job?
That's the advantage of not caring if you offend people or not. Don't do it on purpose, but if I do, yeah, don't care.
Comes up during an interview, they are difficult to work with and best to just move on to the next person.
Agreed. Whether I see something about it on their resume or it comes up during the interview process, it basically takes them out of consideration for the job.
Imagine writing an email to someone addressing them as they? "Good morning they! Hope all is well with they today? I'm scheduling a meeting for our team today at 1:00pm. Are they available? Please let me know at their earliest convenience.?
You wouldn't. They/them is a 3rd person pronoun used when referring to someone. You wouldn't have done it before and you don't do it now. Is it really that hard?
What if someone wants to go by their middle name, or a shortened version of their first name?
I’m envisioning a 21st century spin on the old Abbot and Costello Who’s on First routine
But you might be missing out as that could be interpreted as plural so you should expect them to be able to do at least twice the work of other then.
Thats fine. I'll call someone JB, or Jr or whatever. But if someone is going to ask me to use some silly pronoun, one that neither makes actual or grammtical sense, then no. I don't have time to deal with that type of silliness in my organization. I'm not going to deal with some HR headache because someone micro-aggressed them or they felt threatened because someone used the wrong pronoun.
Exactly. Which is precisely why I asked why people are putting pronouns in their email signature.
Agreed. Listening to someone whine about their feelings being hurt because someone called them the wrong pronoun doesn't help us meet quota. Go work for someone who cares.
I'm as confused as anyone about it, but if you think about it you'll typically address them as you or by their proper name. That part hasn't been a huge issue.
If someone is worried about their pronouns, then go work for a company that cares about that stuff (Starbucks? The govt, etc).
Virtue signaling. Nobody ever talks about the fact that if someone wants to be referred to as they/them, it will literally be impossible to distinguish if someone is talking about an individual or a group of people. Language has no meaning anymore...
That is nowhere even in the ballpark of the insanity of changing your pronoun... Mostly because they would be using their actual name, just a variant of it. Not some made up bullshit to make you feel better. Language matters and the loony left is doing their best to destroy it.
My daughter in law has three of these, them, they or whatever in Crown Point junior high. I can’t imagine how to call on them, these, they in class. What a world!
My wife had a 3rd grader this year that was a biological girl but her parents demanded she be called by her boy name and referred to as he. She's 8. The parents had pulled her out of her previous school when the school refused their demands. To confuse the situation even more, the student does dress like a girl on some days. That's just ridiculously poor parenting.
Never heard of anyone asked to be called "whatever". My teachers usually called me by my name so I really don't see why it causes her a problem. If your daughter in law is smart enough to teach children, she should be smart enough to to figure out what to call them.
The kids are to be called by they, them per their request and the school employees are required to do so. I’m sure if teachers fail to address the students in that manner they would be disrespectful of the student and complaints would be made.Never heard of anyone asked to be called "whatever". My teachers usually called me by my name so I really don't see why it causes her a problem. If your daughter in law is smart enough to teach children, she should be smart enough to to figure out what to call them.
But then again it is Crown Point, so whatever,
You don't call someone he, she, they or them in class or when you you are speaking with them.
So what you are saying is it isn't something you would use to their face usually, so who gives a rip what they want addressed as.
The question is if you don't "give a rip" and its not something you would use to their face, why does it bother you so much?
I know a guy named Jim Haw who uses 'he/haw' on his emails.
And here come the personal insults from the left. LOL! My two college age kids think its ridiculous btw. I've said this before but again, 30 years from now people are going to laugh and wonder what the fuch was going on when looking back on this time when people were wanting to pick their pronouns. Do you refer to Rachel Dolezal as black? You're an old timer and a hypocrite if not.
Actually a teacher/student could very easily refer to a student as a pronoun. If the student answers a question, the teacher could say to the rest of the class, "Class, is she correct?" Or a student could respond with, "I don't agree with her."
