Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.

  • djsoren19@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    Hopefully nothing stopping you, and it can avoid some awkward situations. My company forbids us from including them in our email signature block, and there’s been some confusion due to people assuming I’m a woman and using she/her pronouns to refer to me. Even as a cis white guy, I wish my company let us add preferred pronouns to avoid dumb little situations like that.

    • GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      I’m sorry to put you on a spotlight, but your situation is precisely what I was thinking about when I made my comment. Not queer or some woke SJW warrior. You’re just a person trying to live his life, and I have to imagine that a State Law banning you from putting them in anything official or public would be similarly frustrating.

      But the thing is, you’re just collateral damage at best to the GOP, and speaking from experience, at worst the target of ire simply for creating such confusion in other people for merely having an ambiguous name, I assume.

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      1 year ago

      Sounds like you need to find a new employer. That is a toxic and discriminatory policy that exists exclusively for one reason: because the executives are raging bigots.

      • GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.eeOP
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        1 year ago

        IDK, if she lives in one of these authoritarian right wing regimes in the US, the company might not have a choice.

    • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
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      1 year ago

      Obviously just adding pronouns would be better, but can you add “Mr.” at the beginning of your name in your signature?