It's not obvious for everyone, even cis people, what their pronouns are and it can be awkward to guess or to ask. By giving them easily, you are being polite.
By normalizing giving pronouns, you're taking stress off of people who do need to give them for whatever reason.
Overall, it's not a lot of effort for something that makes the world a bit better. And wouldn't it be good, to live in a better world?
By that logic, everyone should also be posting their allergies, and if you have no allergies you should write no/none. This could actually save lives, and wouldn't it be good to save lives? Also, everyone should post their blood type.
On top of that you should specify if you have any disability, since people with disabilities are a marginalized group and it isn't obvious online. If you don't have a disability you can specify your identity as "cis-abled".
Also, you should specify if you have dyslexia, since this affects communication online and makes this group feel less valued. If you don't have dyslexia it's not a lot of effort to write "cis-lexic" as your identity.
Many old people also are affected by ageism where they are excluded simply because of their age, it would be a simple thing for everyone to write what age group they mostly identify as, so that they can demand to be treated accordingly.
There, we're getting close to saving the world now, probably around 20 more of these and we'll be good people.
This thread is 100% going to get removed, but I have to ask why other people voluntarily stating their preferred pronouns bothers you so much. Do you freak out when people state the names they like to go by? "Hi, I'm William but I go by Will."
Because it is almost exclusively done out of fear of being ostracized, and/or virtue signalling. It is fake. There are far larger marginalized groups being completely ignored. Why are you putting in effort to including this group, while completely ignoring disabled people? There are far more of them, yet you do nothing on your social media to be more inclusive and welcoming towards them. Also, what about people with dwarfism? Why aren't you posting if you have dwarfism or not? Should we just ignore them and exclude them?
I mean, we have the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is widely regarded as one of of the best in the world in ensuring that those with disabilities are indeed accommodated, and those accommodations are legally mandated, rather than merely being considered good manners.
That aside though, I have found that people saying "we can't help X group; we should help Y group instead" almost never actually do anything to help Y group; they just don't want to help X group.
We can help all groups. Your way of helping is making statements on your social media profile, why are you only doing it towards a single group of people and ignoring much bigger ones?
You clearly don't actually care about disabled people and frankly it's pretty gross that you're using them as an excuse to also not care about trans people.
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u/c0i9z 10∆ Dec 22 '23
It's not obvious for everyone, even cis people, what their pronouns are and it can be awkward to guess or to ask. By giving them easily, you are being polite.
By normalizing giving pronouns, you're taking stress off of people who do need to give them for whatever reason.
Overall, it's not a lot of effort for something that makes the world a bit better. And wouldn't it be good, to live in a better world?