This is just begging for malicious compliance.
You want to eliminate an entire part of speech? Then good luck trying to understand what the fuck my email is trying to say.
In the article it specifies you to remove pronouns from your email signature. Definitely less fertile ground for malicious compliance, but it’s still doable.
End every email body with “For your response, I am referred to using (feminine/masculine/any/whatever) pronouns”
Replace it with “[Insert Pronouns Here]”. Make sure to have your desk already cleaned out though.
Does the reader want to eliminate an entire part of speech? Then good luck trying to understand what the fuck the writer’s email is trying to say.
Could be fun. I bet ChatGPT could automate it.
DeepSeek can automate it
Does the reader want to eliminate an entire part of speech?
Which one are they going to outlaw next? Verbs? Or Adjectives?
Exactly… Maybe have a boilerplate disclaimer at the top of each email that does include pronouns, just explaining that the following email has had all pronouns removed so as to comply with the new rule.
“The following email has had all pronouns removed in compliance with blah blah blah. Readability has unfortunately, but obviously, been significantly reduced. Apologies will be made available at a later date.”
You
FUCKING PRONOUNCE turns red and screams
So is it alright to just assume trump is female? The email signature no longer states her preferred pronouns, so I think this is what she wants?
She did sign that executive order designating everyone as female, too.
- I → (the) speaker/writer
- you → (the) listener/reader, pl. (the) audience
- they → that person, pl. those people
The writer believes that such an idea is quite stupid. In fact, the writer believes that the audience will find this language extremely obtuse. These methods will only cause more pain to the federal employees in question.
Don’t forget pronouns like who, mine, and ours. In fact, here’s a list of >100
Someone should write a script that completely replaces these with BS standins
I think we need a tool that automatically rewrites text to remove all pronouns, but I’m not even sure that is possible.
I guess Trump doesn’t want to be referred to as He/Him
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-appears-accidentally-declared-every-174749266.html
Hmmm, I see…
- Name is Alex/Jordan/Leslie
- Not allowed to clarify gender
Wouldn’t the world be better off if no one knew each others gender? If you’re a cis man and find yourself attracted to another man? Congrats you’re gay now.
How does this hold up against a first amendment test?
When “What Trump wants goes” is all the Supreme Meme Court cares about
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Well it’s not a private entity hiring them, it’s the actual govt. Usually the defense is that those are private companies and they can do what they want but that doesn’t apply here
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Because their employer is the US Government. The very entity the 1st Amendment protects us from.
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Most of that isn’t political speech. You absolutely still have the right to political speech as a government employee. Even the military was forced to let soldiers have political speech. The dividing line is where it looks like the speech is from the government instead of from you. Personal pronouns are hardly going to be from the government.
In your assertion the government could simply remove the rights of civil servants by issuing a policy. And that’s just not how rights work.
It’ll never have to
my new bio: (masculine neutral/masculine possessive)
my new bio: (masculine neutral/masculine possessive)
Isn’t it nominative/objective?
I don’t see “he/his” or “they/their,” I see “he/him” and “they/them.”
Probably! Been a long time since I’ve been to school.
I put all of them in, ie he/him/his… just to remove ambiguity.
And pronouns remain in my sig. Ain’t going anywhere.
but they banned mentioning gender, change it to (identifying with the societal archetype of the sex producing the small reproductive cell)
Hope you’re not named Elle.
Trump’s idol **inrich ***mler would be offended too!
Or He-Man
nul42 would stop using pronouns completely and just use genderless nouns or proper names instead.
emails
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shemails?
Use of pronouns outlawed. Now they have to say “that person” or call them by their name.
So, rather than make it.a choice, the Reich Wing is anti-choice. As typical.
Oh no what a shame
But why would a pronoun be in a signature? Something like Her Majesty, Patricia Jones, Dept. of Health?
So people know how you would like to be addressed.
Referred to. People are never addressed by their pronouns.
Him needs to shut up.
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Parker Smith
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She/Her
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Department of Defense Black Budget Coordinator
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867-5309 ext. 1
Questions?
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I work with military and the more conservative ones are bitch-made and demand to use the properly gendered honorific. Seeing CPT CUMBRAIN as the sign-off on an email doesn’t let you know how to address them. Commissioned officers get called either sir or ma’am, and some will turn into cry baby bitches if you don’t get it right. They love their pronouns.
I mean… Those kinds of officers could do with being bothered every now and then. It’s like with cats. If you let the officers go without shenanigans they get arrogant. I think the appropriate rate is something like 1 bothering per 6 months for every 20 specialists under them? That seems harsh but really good specialists can bother their entire chain of command in one go!
Trolling or stupid? Trolling…or stupid? I just can’t tell anymore.
Wow, did you rub all 3 brain cells together to come up with that? Your mommy must be so proud.
