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NASA instructs employees to remove pronouns from all work communications — NPR (apple.news)
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Can confirm.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Right.

But for more casual writing, etiquette dictates they/them for anyone who chooses not to share their pronouns. So as long as we're all collectively not sharing our pronouns, I'll just have a lot of they/them in my writing. And I plan to very politely accept correction - from each person who shares their pronouns with me. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I completely agree with doing the only polite thing. But the more hilarious thing would be to completely avoid pronouns, and get someone to officially tell you how to act, because they really really don't want to officially answer that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah. We're on the same page. There's so much room to be studiously polite and let fragile folks make asses of themselves. Lol.