> Isn’t the whole point of declaring pronouns that it gives you the option not to be gendered, if you prefer? No, the point of declaring pronouns is to bring m

> Isn’t the whole point of declaring pronouns that it gives you the option not to be gendered, if you prefer? No, the point of declaring pronouns is to bring meatspace identity into cyberspace. Sometimes that's the point of the space, as in social networks, but other times counter to the point. e.g. does anyone care what a typical HN user's gender is? Should they? I'd argue no, because we're here to focus on topics of common interest and our respective genders usually aren't relevant to that discussion. An exception there might be users who we already know are dogs (those who have chosen to make their meatspace identities transparently recognizable from their HN identities).