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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Harmonium1923 · 51-55, M

I notice that a majority of the people on this thread who say that putting pronouns on email signatures is “virtue signaling” or “BS” or otherwise offensive—also happen to use a specific gender identifier in their own signatures for this very site. So unsurprisingly that choice is OK for them, just not for others.

JonUK31 · 36-40, M

@Harmonium1923 To be fair this site asks for your gender when you sign up.

Harmonium1923 · 51-55, M

@JonUK31 And also allows you not to show it.

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@Harmonium1923 Proactively choosing to put your "preferred pronoun" on your email or making an unsolicited pronouncement about it is virtue signaling, a bit of BS, AND offensive. Stating your (proper) gender on a survey, form, or application is something else entirely (ENTIRELY). So, surprisingly that those two different things are being presented as the same.

Harmonium1923 · 51-55, M

@MarkPaul I see that you have chosen to put your gender on your response above even though your name here is Mark Paul which one might assume is male.

ViciDraco · 36-40, M

@Harmonium1923 I find it amusing that these people never complain about folks wearing crosses or companies that tout they are Christian based companies.

They don't care about virtue signaling. They just want to control what people view as virtues.

easterniowegin · 51-55, M

@Harmonium1923
A) work email uses a first/last name combo and a signature line, usually.....NOT a profile name that can be intentionally nondescript.

B) work is not social. The need for sex identification isn't significant in a business environment like it might be socially.

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@easterniowegin You are missing the point, entirely. The fact of the matter is, use and voicing pronouns is becoming more and more a ritual that takes place in work environments and the point IS... it's not appropriate. It's not necessary. It's comical. And, it's a waste of time.

easterniowegin · 51-55, M

@MarkPaul
I basically said the same thing. My point was reiterating that comparisons of work pronouns to social pronoun use was ridiculous. They are not even close to the same.

But leftists are trying to out-do themselves to virtue signal.

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@easterniowegin It's not really a left-hate or right-hate thing. It's just a crazy quirk during the early part of the 21st century, not very different from the way people in the last century fell victim to the disco craze.

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@Harmonium1923 Come on, all people I know that have come across it make fun of it and it's not simply because of a request to specify your pronouns but to specify your preferred pronouns suggesting that the others are obliged to use them in communication with them where people literally started demanding being referred to as "Your Majesty" and similar things.

onewithshoes · 22-25, F

Gender markers here are shown by default, so an obvious statement is made by those who block them from being shown.