I am fuming. After ignoring work emails regarding pronouns in signatures months ago, I’ve just discovered that it has been DONE FOR ME! I’ve been sending emails for god knows how long with “she/her” after my name without realising! A few thoughts:
Firstly - how dare they assume my pronouns! I could be a they or a xir or a bun, for all they know. But jokes aside, isn’t it interesting that they know I’m a “she/her” without me telling them? Hmmm. Biology? Something about biology being transphobic.
Now this puts me in the difficult position of needing to ask them to remove the pronouns. I already tried to do it myself - it’s some bigger system that’s beyond my tech expertise.
I am so upset by this - I truly gasped when I first noticed it. I am being portrayed as something I am not. I do not believe in gender ideology and now it’s being displayed proudly on my behalf! How absurd this has all become!
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Bonjour Twits! In 2020, when one of my idols @jk_rowling was being attacked online, I became fully aware of the shemozzle we are in. I dove in and haven’t surfaced since. I read tweets, articles, books.. I couldn’t look away. And I continue to be appalled every day.
I’ve witnessed women losing their jobs, Gender Critical Reddit taken down, many of my favourite women on Twitter suspended, campaigns to remove @AbigailShrier’s Irreversible Damage from shelves. This is disgraceful, I thought. This isn’t fair. This isn’t right.
In Australia, where I live, there was recent chaos about women-only ocean pools. A bookshop apologised for hosting the wonderful @bindelj three years ago. I won’t be shopping there. But I want to do more. I’ve been wanting to get involved. So here I am.