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Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day (abcnews.go.com)
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Does that include Mr. Mrs. and other gendered titles?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Of course not, those are heteronormative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's not a pronoun, but it could function as a replacement to skirt this ruling, assuming it doesn't include gendered honorifics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

thatwasthejoke.jpg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

that's not so much a joke as it is a genuinely good idea