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A chunk of the federal employee base will have something like "LTC" or "Dr." in front of their name, which again confers no indication of gender or preferred pr
by tolien 2y ago
A chunk of the federal employee base will have something like "LTC" or "Dr." in front of their name, which again confers no indication of gender or preferred pronoun.
- keybored 2y agoMr. Bob French Fries, M.D., Ph.D People should do what they want with pronouns in email signatures. But I don’t understand why you can’t string these together.
- llamaimperative 2y agoSounding pretentious (for one's own tastes) is a perfectly defensible reason not to do this. I don't know anyone who enjoys Mr/Ms/Mrs.
- keybored 2y agoI see no difference in pretentiousness between the two styles.
- llamaimperative 2y agoSure, but it's not your name.
- keybored 2y agoRight, I misread this part. I thought the pretentious part was using your titles in your name. Not the Mr/Mrs thing. Oh well.
- tolien 2y agoAs an example (the DoD has almost 2 million personnel on active duty/reserve/guard), "Capt. J Bond USN".
- Balgair 2y agoOne I've heard a lot from boomers is: "Mr. Doe is my father. Call me John" And yes, even the 70 year olds still do this around me, and yes, I find it really weird too.
- jdgoesmarching 2y agoI don’t understand why you’re going through all these weird lengths to solve a problem that pronouns more optimally solve and cover more use cases (e.g. nonbinary people).