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Discussion on: What's up with the pronouns?

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Ben Lovy • Edited

I feel some of this is already well-addressed by some of the other responses you've received. I do not agree with your insistence that there's anything wrong here, and it's not political because it's not there to signal value. It's genuinely there to normalize the practice. I suppose it's disingenuous to say it's about showing support, the point is that inequality is built in to our institutions as fundamental as language and it takes active work to chip away at that for those on the short end of the stick. That's not me, I'm a cis white male, but I don't see this as even a little bit if a loss or a burden on my end, and even if I did it'd be worthwhile.

I don't feel the need to broadcast anything about myself or my gender when I enter a coffee shop, I don't have any sort of profile there. It doesn't really come up in an interaction either. It makes sense on a social media profile, as a point of information that makes up my profile, but I similarly do not include it with every comment and article.

I don't see many cons, and lots of pros.

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neoan

I feel like I am either unable to make my point or am not heard:

I don't see anything wrong with stating your pronouns in such a way. I even agree with the gist of what you are saying:

the point is that inequality is built in to our institutions as fundamental as language and it takes active work to chip away at that for those on the short end of the stick

I am just questioning whether or not this is a good approach as it is certainly not a universal solution. It does not address core issues and it does not solve for anything outside of online communication. BUT, maybe it helps. That's what I am here to find out.

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Ben Lovy

You've got a bunch of folks telling you here that it does indeed.

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neoan

Indeed. Lot's of feedback. Was hoping for some non binary perspective as well, though.