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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why use pronouns if you (presumably) use Mr. or Mrs.?[/quote]

I don't use Mr. or Mrs. My pronouns are she/her/hers and the titles Mrs/Miss are leftover from a patriarchal society in which women did not have their own name. I am most certainly not Mrs. DHFirstName DHLastName (a vestige of the days when women had no credit themselves and signed their DH's name, the name on the account, but with Mrs in front -- hard to believe, but when I was born in 1970, no women had credit cards), nor am I Miss FirstName DadLastName. I'm Ms FirstName LastName if forced into a title, but I prefer to avoid it all around. I prefer FirstName LastName -- no one needs info about my gender or marital status in my signature.

Even with my annoyance with the misogynistic origins of Mrs/Miss aside, "Mr. or Mrs." titles reinforce a binary that 1) doesn't exist, and 2) [b]harms some of my nonbinary colleagues.[/b] So -- I support everyone normalizing the use of pronouns. [/quote]

One time my non-binary colleague complained of a sharp stabbing sensation in her chest and we though she was having a cardiac emergency. Turns out someone in accounting had referred to someone else as "Mr." earlier that day. [/quote]

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