FatCat
Well-known member
What’s your views - you’ve probably all seen this on application forms , online forms and so on over the last couple of years.
my Mrs was on a meeting and in the webex alongside the names some people had their preferred pro nouns so for example she, her etc. Only a few people had set them up and I can understand why, I won’t use real names but for example Sam Bernard - young lady probably sick of being called Bernard , I get that. One of the others was an Indian name and I guess your average person on the street may not have heard the name before and therefore it’s not obvious if the person was a man or woman. therefore again may be useful so that there are no misunderstandings.
the above seems a practical use, what will take me a while to get used to is where people choose pronouns that are inconsistent with their gender, I haven’t been faced with this in a work situation as yet - has anybody else ? Having always used pronouns based on peoples genders it would take me a while to switch my approach and I’m sure I may make the odd mistake along the way.
I think I would further struggle with other pro - nouns , was it the singer Sam smith who wants to be referred to as “They” or something like that.
I have no issue with it myself but after 30 odd years of my life using gender based pro-nouns there might be a few slips of the tongue on my part whilst I get used to this.
Any views, experiences in a work related scenario or otherwise?
my Mrs was on a meeting and in the webex alongside the names some people had their preferred pro nouns so for example she, her etc. Only a few people had set them up and I can understand why, I won’t use real names but for example Sam Bernard - young lady probably sick of being called Bernard , I get that. One of the others was an Indian name and I guess your average person on the street may not have heard the name before and therefore it’s not obvious if the person was a man or woman. therefore again may be useful so that there are no misunderstandings.
the above seems a practical use, what will take me a while to get used to is where people choose pronouns that are inconsistent with their gender, I haven’t been faced with this in a work situation as yet - has anybody else ? Having always used pronouns based on peoples genders it would take me a while to switch my approach and I’m sure I may make the odd mistake along the way.
I think I would further struggle with other pro - nouns , was it the singer Sam smith who wants to be referred to as “They” or something like that.
I have no issue with it myself but after 30 odd years of my life using gender based pro-nouns there might be a few slips of the tongue on my part whilst I get used to this.
Any views, experiences in a work related scenario or otherwise?