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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m about done with all of this.  I think we should switch to they/their/them for everyone.  The overwhelming majority of jobs, a person’s gender (biological or preferred), makes absolutely no difference. There’s long been discrimination against women.  Now, there’s the concern about discrimination against trans.  It was bad enough when you had to consider if a woman wanted to be addressed as Miss/Mrs. or Ms.  Now we have to keep track of everyone’s pronouns.  I have enough problems keeping faces and names straight.  Not to mention, I find it irksome that we have to be so sensitive to identifying people as they wish, but apparently now, I can no longer identify aw simply a woman.  Somewhere along the way, society decided I was a cis-woman and forgot to ask my preference.

I vote we switch to first initial, last name, and neutral pronouns for everyone.  Maybe then we can stop worrying about the problems the more complicated forms of address cause, and get down to business, which is presumably what a workplace is for.[/quote]

That’s not how language works. You can’t just change it in that way, it’s an organic thing.[/quote]

There is nothing mainstream or organic happening here.
Identity labels are 100% political. And frankly are phasing out. The activists and leftists overplayed their card, as usual. [/quote]

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