Thinking this morning about how Blue MAGA has gone on about “good trouble” and how Democrats who showed up to the House chamber last night sat and watched one of their own get walked out for “disrupting” Trump’s speech, and not one of them was “you know what, fuck those guys, if Green is getting walked I’m bailing too and I’m making a show of it.”
It’s like these people think “good trouble” means being passively passive-aggressive so as to not upset anyone else, and certainly doing nothing that would result in getting in actual trouble with “the authorities.”
“Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine… We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor.”
He also said “never before has an American president capitulated to any enemy; never before has an American president failed to support an ally against an enemy…”
If his pronouns are he/him (which is what the article uses) then having his pronouns in his auto signature wouldn’t be violating any policy of “recognizing that there are two genders”.
That said, I would think that the employer DOES have the right to dictate the format of auto signatures. So while he says he’s not planning a lawsuit, I wouldn’t expect him to win one.
Still, the employer is exceptionally dumb to lose a good employee over something as trivial as including pronouns in his auto signature. Especially pronouns that comply with the “two genders” law or proposal or whatever it is.
This is true in America of the past. In an authoritarian state the most important quality is compliance, submission to the authority. It is why authoritarian states are less efficient, less productive, and more corrupt than representative governments where the people have power over the state.
I don’t know but that’s so far removed from the actual situation that it’s not remotely comparable.
Adding “he/him” or “she/her” to your auto signature is not political commentary. It’s actually quite useful for many people who have either foreign names with which I am not familiar and this cannot guess a gender, or “American” names common for both genders (Chris, Jess, Alex, Jordan, Kelly, Shannon, Parker and most famously, Pat)
To you and I it is not political commentary and is actually quite useful. For those in control of the American government it is an anti-government political statement that must be punished.
Basic courtesies like this absolutely do become political statements when the government is attacking our right to use a pronoun. You either submit or make a statement against the government. He may have fallen in the government-approved gender binary but he acknowledged that preferred pronouns are a concept, directly contradicting Executive Order.
That bill made it out of the subcommittee with GOP support, but did not make it out of committee so it’s dead at least for this year.
However the proponents changed their angle and submitted a new proposal: no vaccines unless the manufacturers agree to be sued by the vaccine crackpotsm
Well to reiterate: having preferred pronouns is reality for probably well over 99% of the population. Acknowledging as much is NOT in violation of the executive order.
Any employer DOES have the right to prescribe the format for auto signatures.
It’s dumb (but not illegal or unexpected) to fire a good employee over the use of pronouns in their signature.
IMO, it actually is the single biggest example of exactly that. Most of the issues that get raised around this stuff are really just trying to create a level playing field for everyone. The signature thing is more a ‘creating awareness’ issue. Using signatures like this heightens awareness, it doesn’t do anything else directly to create equality.
Well, government agencies specifically said that removing pronouns is mandatory to align with Trump’s EO. Whether we agree or not that the agencies are interpreting things correctly, they say that Trump’s EO requires removal of pronouns.
Pronoun declarations are one of those things like wheelchair ramps or closed captioning. It was originally to help a small group of people but ends up helping far more than initially intended.
(Far more people use wheelchair ramps for strollers and suitcases than wheelchairs. Far more hearing people use closed captions for convenience than deaf people use them out of necessity.)
