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Re:Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email sign... by grepexdev on Friday January 31, 2025 @04:50PM (#42892575)
I think that's fair. It is akin to a business establishing email etiquette for it's employees.

Now, if it were the government telling citizens to not use pronouns in their emails, that of course would be overreaching.

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Re:Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email sign... by cr125rider on Friday January 31, 2025 @05:41PM (#42893185)
As someone who works with a lot of international people with names I’m not familiar with, it can be really helpful to have pronouns. At a minimum. But also I like freedom. Call people what they want to be called.
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Re:Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email sign... by Jensson on Saturday February 01, 2025 @07:11AM (#42897773)
If you want to signal what to be called you can write Mr or Ms instead in the signature.
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Re:Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email sign... by alistairSH on Saturday February 01, 2025 @05:49PM (#42903287)
How is that functionally any different than the pronouns?
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