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The intent is what counts. The intent here was to troll, not request accommodation. Employers and judges don't take kindly to that.

Nextgrid 3y ago
> The intent here was to troll How do you know? There are plenty of pronouns out there (basically all of them except the two genders and "they") that I still can't see anyone actually using seriously and not as a troll to make a statement - no different from what this guy is doing. The validity of a pronoun is a subjective concept at the end of the day. However, even in the absolute obvious case where he himself would've admitted that he is trolling, the right thing to do would still be to accept his troll pronouns and not give it a second thought, otherwise you're not only "feeding" the troll (by giving him a reaction) but kinda validating his point that the whole thing is BS and that in reality only certain pronouns that fit the current groupthink are allowed despite the claimed "inclusivity".
- tweetle_beetle 3y ago
  Using "Assigned by God" is as immature as filling in "Yes please" beside "Sex" on a form. Anyone with a scrap of professionalism would not do such a thing. It is clearly a case of malicious compliance. This has nothing to do with groupthink, it's just being a crap employee/colleague. I, for one, wouldn't want someone prepared to make an overt challenge to authority about something so petty to be in charge of security at my security product organisation. If being asked to state your preferred pronoun is the final straw for you, then I suggest you have it better than 99.99% of people in the world and should grow up.
  - Nextgrid 3y ago
    Making this argument is advocating for a registry of "valid" pronouns and a governing body - who should be in charge of that registry and how should disagreements be handled? I thought the whole point of the pronouns thing is that having a static list of 2 sets of pronouns was not enough. If you believe this then I think you should also accept "assigned by god" as a valid pronoun no matter how stupid or trollish it sounds to you (and of course if it is indeed a troll then ignoring it is the best way to deal with it and make the troll go away).
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  - George83728 3y ago
    If a gender-fluid pansexual wants to identify their sex as "Yes please", who are you to say they can't? Hmmm.

Nextgrid 3y ago

> The intent here was to troll How do you know? There are plenty of pronouns out there (basically all of them except the two genders and "they") that I still can't see anyone actually using seriously and not as a troll to make a statement - no different from what this guy is doing. The validity of a pronoun is a subjective concept at the end of the day. However, even in the absolute obvious case where he himself would've admitted that he is trolling, the right thing to do would still be to accept his troll pronouns and not give it a second thought, otherwise you're not only "feeding" the troll (by giving him a reaction) but kinda validating his point that the whole thing is BS and that in reality only certain pronouns that fit the current groupthink are allowed despite the claimed "inclusivity".

tweetle_beetle 3y ago
Using "Assigned by God" is as immature as filling in "Yes please" beside "Sex" on a form. Anyone with a scrap of professionalism would not do such a thing. It is clearly a case of malicious compliance. This has nothing to do with groupthink, it's just being a crap employee/colleague. I, for one, wouldn't want someone prepared to make an overt challenge to authority about something so petty to be in charge of security at my security product organisation. If being asked to state your preferred pronoun is the final straw for you, then I suggest you have it better than 99.99% of people in the world and should grow up.
- Nextgrid 3y ago
  Making this argument is advocating for a registry of "valid" pronouns and a governing body - who should be in charge of that registry and how should disagreements be handled? I thought the whole point of the pronouns thing is that having a static list of 2 sets of pronouns was not enough. If you believe this then I think you should also accept "assigned by god" as a valid pronoun no matter how stupid or trollish it sounds to you (and of course if it is indeed a troll then ignoring it is the best way to deal with it and make the troll go away).
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- George83728 3y ago
  If a gender-fluid pansexual wants to identify their sex as "Yes please", who are you to say they can't? Hmmm.