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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll admit if I see a pronoun after a name I think you're a vain and not very bright virtue signaling progressive and it'd definitely make me look down at you and very carefully scrutinize any teaching you do with my kids. Because putting pronouns after your name means I can extrapolate so much about you without even meeting you or knowing anything else about you. Thankfully we're at a normal prep school where pronouns don't exit, let alone inspirational quotes.

The funny thing is that we could avoid all the furore around pronouns simply by bringing back honorifics. Your email signature could then be Ms. Sarah Johnson, which is which is much better than "Sarah Johnson, female, she/her/whatever."

The confused would just be "Mx Sarah Johnson" and we can figure out what it means. [/quote]

Pronouns are ideally for people whose gender cannot be deciphered from the name. If your name is Maria or Juan, it's obvious. Adding she/her/ella or he/him/él is stupid.  If you have  gender neutral name or a foreign name that few people from outside your culture could confidently assign to a gender, it makes sense to include your pronouns. The ironic thing is that many foreigners take the conservative side in our culture wars and don't include pronouns, but their names are a total mystery. [/quote]

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