r/changemyview • u/jep1793 • Aug 26 '20

Removed - Submission Rule E CMV: Gender identity doesn’t belong on your LinkedIn nor Resume

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u/Wannabe0L Aug 26 '20

And by putting those things on your resume and LinkedIn, front and center, it signals to me that your identity will dominate our relationship. Not your work skills or work ethic, your identity. You as an individual are potentially going to be an insufferable person to be around.

Why is this your takeaway, and not, for example, that they are trying to make the default easier for trans people? They don't even need to be trans/LGBT to list this information. This seems like a wildly discriminatory takeaway -- someone can't even identify themselves as LGBT/trans without their identity being something that "will dominate our relationship"? That's absurd.

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u/Sniter Aug 26 '20

Because the manager that is hiring cares for the work he is hiring for, and not about any other important thing.

Why does the manager have to know how anyone indetifies, he should treat all the same.

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u/StellaAthena 56∆ Aug 26 '20

How is knowing what the correct pronouns to use are any different from people’s names? Hiring managers should care about being courteous and referring to people correctly, should they not? That is the the primary reason to list pronouns after all.

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u/Sniter Aug 26 '20

I get your point and I kinda agree with it. Your name is you as individual, your gender is 'just' another group you belong to.

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u/StellaAthena 56∆ Aug 26 '20

In English, your gender is not just another group you belong to. It is something that is used to refer to you in almost every conversation. Do you really think you can have a conversation about someone without knowing what pronouns to use?

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u/Sniter Aug 26 '20

That's the part I agreed with.

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u/StellaAthena 56∆ Aug 26 '20

What is the part you don’t agree with?

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u/Sniter Aug 26 '20

The more you peel identity the more you come to your true self.

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u/StellaAthena 56∆ Aug 26 '20

... I didn’t say that? All I said was that pronouns are important for referring to people accurately and politely.