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In reply to the discussion: (she/her) [View all]

qwlauren35

(6,279 posts)
4. The old way
Thu Sep 7, 2023, 05:10 PM
Sep 2023

I always added Ms. and I encountered professionals from Asia who added Ms. or Mr.

she/her is a new thing, and given that Mr./Ms. worked just fine 10 years ago, I see it entirely as an LGBTQ thing.

I saw a video the other day in which a woman went on a rant and said that if she saw "She/Her" on a resume, she would immediately assume "liberal" and "very liberal" and "vocal liberal" and "will go to HR if offended" and with all of that baggage, the person may not get hired. Now, that person may not have wanted to work in a "non-woke" environment anyway, so it may be just as well, but I work very hard to make sure that my politics, my gender, my race are moved out of the way by my intelligence and competence. I work with "non-woke" people. All the time. I am definitely not going to wave a red flag of wokeness when I am trying to get a job done.



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(she/her) [View all] question everything Sep 2023 OP
Before I retired, faculty began doing this routinely. It helped spooky3 Sep 2023 #1
It's become common but now there is push back Voltaire2 Sep 2023 #2
Push back? To what? question everything Sep 2023 #3
They are outraged by 'pronouns'. Voltaire2 Sep 2023 #5
The old way qwlauren35 Sep 2023 #4
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