Signature /= footer

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    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 day ago

      Of course it’s daft to mandate what people can and can’t put in their email footers but I don’t get why people put pronouns in footers.

      I’m cis male and he/him. Others can call refer to me as it/them or she/her if they wish.

      I dislike bananas but I don’t put that in my email footer.

      I haven’t seen it in a while anyway. I thought it was a fad from the late 10s

      • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.org
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        3 hours ago

        Its awesome that you use any/any pronouns but some people have massive feelings of gender dysphoria from being misgendered. I understand it can be difficult to relate to an experience you’ve never had, but it is a real experience and shouldn’t be minimised.

          • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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            12 hours ago

            Is your dislike of bananas an important part of your identity, both personally and how you are treated by society at large? Does making it known that you dislike bananas either verbally or through your appearance lead to a realistic possibility of facing abuse and opression, not limited to potential loss of livelihood or life?

            If not, perhaps, you can see how the two things aren’t very comparable.

            • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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              11 hours ago

              No, but how people refer to me in the third person is also not an important part of my identity.

              Someone’s choice of the pronoun to assign to me says more about them and the nature of our relationship than it says about my identity.