This shit isn't freedom, its requirement to demonstrate loyalty to ideology. This person used the prescribed methods to demonstrate loyalty to a different ideology, and the cult came after them. That is all that happened here.
Not allowed: Everything else.
It's how words work.
What’s the difference?
By contrast forcing religion on people has a long history of real harm, it isn't just a social nicety. The worst that comes out of "pronoun policing" is arguably just rudeness, the worst that comes out of forcing religion is a known quantity, and it's as bad as it gets.
I understand that Christianity has gone out of favor in the workplace, but it’ss odd that corporate policies for inclusion seem to still alienate Christian beliefs (I say that as a Heathen).
Like having preferred pronouns in your email signature is valid, but listing you walk in the light of Christ would not fly.
If this guy wants to protest “pronouns” then he could leave them blank.
To actively antagonize management decisions is career limiting behavior.
Also plants and fish offend me, so I don't want to see them in the office. And population is anti-environment, so no photos of kids either.
I think the only solution is to work on cubicles with separate entrances.
Excuse the sarcasm, but having a small push back against mandatory pronouns and being fired is just another step to a really damn bland office environment.
Although I should point out that there are hard rules in Quebec that govern some of these behaviours in a rather discriminatory way.
That's false equivalence. Listing you don't believe in God or insults against religion are also not valid in email signatures. Pronouns are valid because you may need to refer to them in the third person.
From TFA: "...the correspondence indicates the company insisted on completing the gender field on Scharf’s employee profile, rather than it being an initiative initiated by Scharf himself."
As far as workplaces go, I don't think you can get more forced to go along with it than "Do it or you're fired."
Come on, just enter he or she and get on with your life. Will you get upset on being able to choose Mr or Dr as well?
Or now in this case you get fired because you're not a "culture fit"
There's nothing interesting about the question, it's cut and dry, youre just pretending it's not.
"Preferred pronouns" is a question on a form. If you answer with anything other than pronouns, as defined in the dictionary, you're being an ass. That's the difference.
You don’t know their problems. Nobody died and made you king.
Oh, as someone who creates computer applications “Use the default” is a common action. People looking at me or most others make all sorts of assumptions and accepting the default works in most cases. I can leave those blank.
This is perfectly in line with many people's belief. Pronoun selection is intended to be arbitrary to serve your own identity...except when someone objects to a specific selection.
The Jedi religion evolution in Australia, at least gave a line (that Jedis were able to cross) for what constitutes a religion. I have little faith that a more comprehensive ruleset for pronouns will come out of California.
With a rather conspicuous exemption for crosses.
I have the feeling france really has something unique with its relationship to religion ( and multi-culturalism in general) that could really benefit a lot of modern western societies. Unfortunately for now the influence goes the other way, we're the ones being influenced by the craziness happening in the US..