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Putting your pronoun on Linkedin

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  • 16-11-2019 11:26pm
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    Rologyro
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭


    I saw this for the first time today on an Irish LinkedIn profile. Their name was down as “Jane Bloggs (she, her)”. This just annoyed me, I think it’s a way for people to feel sanctimonious about how “woke” they are.

    Do you think this is going to actually catch on?


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    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Rologyro wrote: »
    I saw this for the first time today on an Irish LinkedIn profile. Their name was down as “Jane Bloggs (she, her)”. This just annoyed me, I think it’s a way for people to feel sanctimonious about how “woke” they are.

    Do you think this is going to actually catch on?

    It's become a requirement in a lot of American tech companies to have this in their email sig


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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    It's become a requirement in a lot of American tech companies to have this in their email sig

    That’s it. I just this minute finally lost the will to live. Byeeee!


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    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,018 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    It's become a requirement in a lot of American tech companies to have this in their email sig
    Ugh. I think some people in my company would be in favour of that, but fortunately they also object to "they/their" for the singular, which is putting a spanner in those works.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rggspuTEir8


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    Rologyro
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭Rologyro


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    That’s it. I just this minute finally lost the will to live. Byeeee!

    I feel the same, HOW, with everything that’s going on in the world, can people genuinely think this is something we should all collectively start adopting.

    Inanimate objects have pronouns in other languages, what are people in those countries supposed to do, invent new words?


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    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Good lord


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    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Rologyro wrote: »
    I saw this for the first time today on an Irish LinkedIn profile. Their name was down as “Jane Bloggs (she, her)”. This just annoyed me, I think it’s a way for people to feel sanctimonious about how “woke” they are.

    Do you think this is going to actually catch on?

    i hope it doesn't here. load of ****


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    RWCNT
    Registered Users Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭RWCNT


    Rologyro wrote: »
    I feel the same, HOW, with everything that’s going on in the world, can people genuinely think this is something we should all collectively start adopting.

    Right on, it should be made mandatory to have either an Israeli or Palestinian flag beside your username instead


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    high_king
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 418 ✭✭high_king


    bluewolf wrote: »
    i hope it doesn't here. load of ****

    Typical Transphobic Shyte. The sooner companies make this and gender neutral toilets compulsory the better.


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    high_king wrote: »
    Typical Transphobic Shyte. The sooner companies make this and gender neutral toilets compulsory the better.

    Typical reality based reality. endacl. (He/his. As distinct from the only other one)


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,245 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Rologyro wrote: »
    I saw this for the first time today on an Irish LinkedIn profile. Their name was down as “Jane Bloggs (she, her)”. This just annoyed me, I think it’s a way for people to feel sanctimonious about how “woke” they are.
    In an international world, there are plenty of reasons for it.

    Remember when Edna became taoiseach, or so some American media thought.


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    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    I don't know why people get so annoyed about such a tiny gesture of solidarity with trans people.


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    #13
    antix80
    Registered Users Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭antix80


    Antix80. He /him/his

    There are only 2 genders.

    Trans men are not biological men.

    Trans women are not biological women.

    Gender dysphoria is a mental illness.

    Mental illness should not be treated with surgery.

    All of these things are true.


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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Victor wrote: »
    In an international world, there are plenty of reasons for it.

    Remember when Edna became taoiseach, or so some American media thought.

    That’s not why it’s happening.


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,245 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    That’s not why it’s happening.
    It's not a million miles from it either.


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    The Bishop Basher
    Registered Users Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭The Bishop Basher


    Victor wrote: »
    In an international world, there are plenty of reasons for it.

    Like what ?

    I’m 23 years working in a large multinational dealing with people of all sorts and from every corner of the globe and we’ve never had a need for this.

    To be fair that’s probably because 99.4% of people are the gender you‘d expect them to be so it’s only of potential benefit if you have a transsexual person working with you.

    But even then, we’ve had 2 transsexuals working in my area over the Last 23 years and while there we’re some issues around toilets and dress code etc. the manner in which they were addressed was never a problem. They just told us.

    This Looks to me like it’s just another step too far by the idiots trying to outdo each other with their virtue signalling.

    Best left at it but I won’t be adding a pronoun to my signature, not now, not ever.


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    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Rologyro wrote: »
    Their name was down as “Jane Bloggs (she, her)”.
    Wait, was this person Trans? Because if not, sweet jeeebus!!


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    #18
    The chan chan man
    Registered Users Posts: 824 ✭✭✭The chan chan man


    This is getting ridiculous now and I wish someone with real power and influence would say it (rather than me...on boards...at 7am..)

    There are only 2 genders and about 15 mental disorders!


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    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    good way to know who not to hire


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    #20
    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    Do you know something, in my job I interact with colleagues in different countries all over the world on a daily basis, mostly by email. Some of them I don't know whether they're male or female by their names. And guess what - it genuinely doesn't matter, because the content and tone of my email is going to be the exact same regardless!

    This is political correctness gone absolutely insane. If anything it's a step backwards for equality, because it implies that we might treat people differently depending on what gender they identify as. In a professional context, surely it shouldn't actually matter?


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    [Deleted User]
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    How do you edit your boards sig again?


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    #22
    Vicxas
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    My company is one of those "woke" ones, and all the LGBT people put "schlee/schlim" or whatever they put in their email sigs and wear badges.

    It makes me sick to my stomach that this is what the world is.


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    #23
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    What? Seriously? Ok can I ask what tyupe of company in what industry etc?


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    #24
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    Vicxas wrote: »
    My company is one of those "woke" ones, and all the LGBT people put "schlee/schlim" or whatever they put in their email sigs and wear badges.

    It makes me sick to my stomach that this is what the world is.

    Wear badges?? That has got to be untrue! :D


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    JCDUB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,225 ✭✭✭JCDUB


    Ficheall wrote: »
    Ugh. I think some people in my company would be in favour of that, but fortunately they also object to "they/their" for the singular, which is putting a spanner in those works.

    I've never got this "they" business. "They" is plural. A person is singular. So surely if a person wants a gender neutral/non-specific pronoun he/she would use "it?"


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    #26
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    I hate when people use LinkedIn like Facebook. If you are up at 1 am commenting on weight loss posts and complains about the health and safety in videos that other people put up you arnt doing your job prospects any favours.

    You just look like a donkey.


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    #27
    brevity
    Registered Users Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭brevity


    http://pronoun.is/all-pronouns

    Handy guide for those that are curious


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    #28
    Good jib!
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭Good jib!


    JCDUB wrote: »
    I've never got this "they" business. "They" is plural. A person is singular. So surely if a person wants a gender neutral/non-specific pronoun he/she would use "it?"


    The boat sailed on that one years ago. I've been using, and people around me have been using 'they' for a person of indeterminate sex for the last 40 years.

    "I was chatting to one of Maureen's friends yesterday"
    "And what did they say to you?"

    So 'they' can be plural or singular.


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    #29
    Snotty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭Snotty


    Like most of this bollox, it's probably started by some libtard creating problems rather than an actual trans person.

    I work with a lot of Indians and for some of them I have no idea of their sex based on their names, but it makes zero differences, I'm never saying "she said" I would be using their name and if I was talking directly too them in the mail, again why would I be using "he/she".
    Assholes creating problems where none exist.


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    GalwayGrrrrrl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭GalwayGrrrrrl


    It’s not just happening on linked in. Twitter has a lot of professional groups on it and I’ve seen it multiple times on there. I don’t see the harm in it tbh. GalwayGrrrrrl she/her


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    #31
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Remember when we were told that what trans people do doesn't effect us, if they want to dress up as a woman then so what?

    Now this 0.001% are having our language, science, sports and society changed. It has to be nipped in the bud immediately


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