My cis woman engineering coworker had a wall of shame in her office by contractors using a template with mr., gentlemen, etc when providing quotes. Guess who didn't win the bids for those jobs?
As you pointed out, it's something people have done forever as basic respect. It's not difficult
Oh they carried on for 40 fucking years over the Ms thing, so much so that it seems like fewer married women use it now than they did before. Same with the last name changes.
I feel sorry for each new cohort of Jamies to hit the internet, putting pronouns in their signatures just to spare confusion, with no idea what madness they're stumbing into.
I remember when people (ie cis-het men) got upset about 'Ms' as a title, and it seemed to me that what upset them was that women had *dared * to come up with it and start using it without asking their permission
I majored in English and got my master's in education.
Pronouns are a BASIC part of the English language structure.
How they became controversial is fucking beyond me.
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As you pointed out, it's something people have done forever as basic respect. It's not difficult
but can't do a (grammatically correct!) singular "They"? sure jan...
Pronouns are a BASIC part of the English language structure.
How they became controversial is fucking beyond me.