Does anyone specify their pronouns in email?

Just had an email from a person with first name Alison. Underneath it said pronouns she/her. No shit - you're a woman. I deduced that from your first name but I don't actually care what gender or whatever you claim to be we're just doing business. Don't know whether the pronoun bit is the organisation policy or something she chooses to add.

Had to answer professionally but was so tempted to say if you want to bring pronouns in to the equation wouldn't it be way cooler to be them/they

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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

Children are starving, people are dying, and others get precious about a pronoun in front of their name.. Some people just dont get it...😷

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@whowasthatmaskedman I predict when they grow up and have a family, a mortgage, kids, and a life, the obsession about their "gender identity" will fall from importance.

LeopoldBloom · M

@whowasthatmaskedman Would you have preferred for her to put “Children are starving” after her name instead of pronouns?

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@LeopoldBloom She can call herself a Jedi Knight or Rumplestiltskin for all I care. Trans people make a tough choice and get a raw deal in many ways. Deliberately setting themselves apart on one more way is a mistake in my opinion..😷

LeopoldBloom · M

@whowasthatmaskedman Most of the people doing this where I work aren't trans.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@LeopoldBloom Sort of making my case, which is, "What is the point?" Wanting to identify as a cat or a bedbug is just attention seeking...A cry for help...😷

LeopoldBloom · M

@whowasthatmaskedman Nobody is identifying as a cat or a bedbug, regardless of what Ben Shapiro is telling you.

Conservatives tend to be uncomfortable with deviations from the expected, and trans people are definitely violating that. The "Androgynous Pat" series on SNL went to the core of that discomfort as people couldn't deal with a character whose gender wasn't clear.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@LeopoldBloom I did carry the matter to extremes for effect (and not a little irony) forgive me. I am not a prude about such matters. If a male or female want to swap nametags or genders its their business. Mazeltov! But with all the real problems on the world to get precious about this is sheer hubris from a bunch of self important whiners..😷