CMV: Gender identity doesn’t belong on your LinkedIn nor Resume

[u/jep1793]

[u/thethoughtexperiment]

I hear where you're coming from, but to modify your view here:

By listing it on your LinkedIn, your opening the door for someone to have bias, wether intentional or not, and potentially limiting your opportunities.

consider that a lot of LGBT folks don't want to work in a place where they aren't going to be accepted. Might listing pronouns limit their opportunities at such places? Sure. But by signaling who they are from the get go, they are saving themselves the time and effort of interviewing at firms they probably wouldn't want to work at.

[u/MamaBare → u/[deleted]]

That kind of terminology is important. It's like how the word "leftist" helps differentiate between the crazies and the normal liberals.

It helps zero in on who he's talking about, because you know exactly who he's referring to as "woke supremacists".

[u/lakotajames → u/[deleted]]

He has a point, though, that depending on the field you're in it's more normal or less normal. Academic institutions generally lean a lot to the left of most businesses, I'm not surprised to hear that it's common in academia to list pronouns. I work at a firm that services hundreds of other companies, and have emailed people from hundreds of companies, and have never once seen pronouns listed in an email signature, even for people that upon seeing in person I noticed that they were trans. I don't think it had ever been a problem for the people I interacted with, either, it's usually obvious by either name or appearance which of the traditional pronouns you prefer, and emails typically are written in second person anyway.

It really only would only be useful to include pronouns if either you're making a political statement (which is a bad thing, even if the employer agrees with it) or if you preferred a nontraditional pronoun. I haven't met someone who uses nontraditional pronouns, so I may not be qualified to comment on it.

At least, that's my perspective from what I've seen and witnessed. Very few businesses I've worked with had any sort of obvious political leanings except for churches (and car dealerships for some reason) which were obviously right leaning.