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Which pronouns are allowed and which aren't? I forgot. This shit isn't freedom, its requirement to demonstrate loyalty to ideology. This person used the prescr
by friend_and_foe 3y ago
Which pronouns are allowed and which aren't? I forgot.
This shit isn't freedom, its requirement to demonstrate loyalty to ideology. This person used the prescribed methods to demonstrate loyalty to a different ideology, and the cult came after them. That is all that happened here.
- sacnoradhq 3y agoRewind to 1999 or 1976. There was always workplace-appropriate communication, say the title on a corporate business card. Using that as a medium to advance personal views was and is inappropriate.
- AdrianB1 3y agoUsing pronouns on business cards in 1999 or 1976 was also inappropriate. If you did that in 1976, people would consider you are a lunatic, according to my parents that did have business cards at that time.
- UtopiaPunk 3y agoInstead we used Mr, Ms, Mrs. I don't know why listing one's preferred pronouns are somehow worse
- friend_and_foe 3y agoYup, and if someone tried to leverage corporate communication to force their coworkers to appease their ideology that would have been a pretty big deal.
- kgwxd 3y agoAllowed: "The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for, previously specified, or understood from the context." Not allowed: Everything else. It's how words work.
- friend_and_foe 3y agoOh it's how words work huh? Well while we are discussing how words work, I'd like to point out that you get to pick your nouns, not your pronouns. Males are designated "he", " him", a male adult human is a "man" etc. The grammatical rules of the english language don't have any allowance for self selecting pronouns, that's what proper nouns are for. Since we are talking about how words work.