What are Your Pronouns?

 

NatWest staff will be able to display their favoured pronouns and phonetic name spellings on new environmentally friendly bamboo badges from next month as the taxpayer-backed lender launches a drive to appear more inclusive.

The bank, which has been trialling the new name tags since late last year, said the changes will mean that someone called Louise can now have "Looweez" on their name badge so that customers don't pronounce their name wrong.

Branch staff across the UK will also be able to add their chosen pronoun, such as she/her, he/him or them/theirs, to their new plastic-free badges and can choose to be identified by an abbreviated or ‘known as’ version of their first name if they prefer. These changes are all optional, the bank said.

I wonder where this nonsense will stop, if anywhere.

No matter how people wish for it, there are still only two genders: male and female. Any suggestion that there are others is Leftist nonsense.

Can you imagine working in a company with several hundred employees and trying to remember what pronouns - and there are said to be numerous of them - to call someone? You call on the phone and before you discuss anything, ask for the person at the other end's preferred pronouns. FFS.

Maybe it's reasonable to include the phonetic pronunciation for those with impossible to guess names like Podsiadly which isn't pod-si-ad-ly, but podchadly when considered in English. This would still be a problem on the telephone although when answering a person could give their name and its proper pronounciation.

What do you think? What are your pronouns or are you like me and don't give a rat's arse what pronouns someone uses for you?

#Robinoz