So it’s between ramming preferred pronouns down someones throat vs ramming religion down someones throat.
What’s the difference?
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.
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.
If this guy wants to protest “pronouns” then he could leave them blank.
To actively antagonize management decisions is career limiting behavior.
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.
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.
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?
"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.