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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

I don't appreciate pronouns being as wide spread in a working environment. For people who have had to fight for their gender identity I will of course respect that choice - but gender is a rather irrelevant quality in the workplace and I feel like the wide proliferation of pronouns on profiles in Slack/Teams/etc... improperly emphasizes the importance of gender in the workplace. I'd much rather use they/them as blanket pronouns and try and demphasize gender in our language. There are numerous more important factors of people's personalities that are more interesting than gender like interests (imagine if there was a common pronoun for someone interested in D&D as example) and I'd rather use those factors for identity than gender.

I admit this is likely to be fairly controversial but I do think the world would be a much more pleasant place if gender wasn't constantly reinforced in language.

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