Summary
Federal employees at multiple agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from email signatures by Friday, following executive orders signed by Donald Trump to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.
Agencies including the CDC, Department of Transportation, and Department of Energy issued directives citing the new policy.
Some employees expressed frustration, with one CDC worker calling it unprecedented.
The Office of Personnel Management also instructed agencies to disable pronoun prompts in email systems, marking another step in Trump’s broader rollback of DEI initiatives.
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The party of Freezed Peach! Can’t you just smell the freedom?
Also, I’m sure it’s THIS that will give us cheap groceries.
Move from signature to from line lol
The federal agency I work with does put them next to your name if you have them registered. Curious how long that lasts.
Anything to distract from the plane crash they caused and plans to indefinitely hold citizens and people who missed a court date in an expanded Cuban military black site the public never wanted built on the first place
I think everyone here knew Trump would be doing a lot of stupid evil shit during his second term, but is anyone else surprised at the sheer magnitude of stupidity coming from the white house these past ten days?
Fuck no. Project 2025 was about making the shitshow far more efficient this time around.
They had PLANS. They published them. Now that donvict is in there, they plan on getting as much rammed through as possible. It’s doubtful stuff like this matters very much other than as ragebait for their stupid base. The REAL agenda is the kind of looting and pillaging Felon plans on carrying out with his purchase of donvict…
It’s a gish gallop of petty insecurity, coming out so fast and furious that it takes people off guard.
Two years from now, when Trump doesn’t have any more low-hanging fruit to pick at, this will seem quaint. But by then, we’re going to see the real damage these opening days inflicted on civil society. It won’t be “lolz, haha, guess we’ll be using a lot of proper nouns going forward” and a lot more “fuck, another airline accident that you can only learn about on Rednote and the forums of Pornhub, because every major journalist has been doing wall-to-wall coverage of the Trial of the Transgender Eleven caught providing underground abortion drugs to serially raped immigrant middle schoolers held in the prison camps of the hurricane blasted ruins of Miami.”
‘Gish gallop’ is the perfect descriptor for this onslaught of every hour insanity we’re going through.
Bannon called it flooding the zone with shit. Some keep on saying “flooding the zone” is a donvict strategy, but he got it from Bannon, most likely.
Also: Karl Rove famously had his quote, which is basically the same thing - basically putting on a pedestal those that take bold actions and lie constantly in the process:
“That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Bannon saying to “flood the zone with shit” is far shorter, but basically the same thing.
The time has come for all federal employees to cease using pronouns entirely in communications. Here is a list of English pronouns to stop using.
Also pretty much any noun can be used as a form of neo pronoun, so to be safe all Federal employees should only use verbs.
First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language.
Next they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.
All who?
Wait, fuck
You mean to tell me the US government doesn’t have a system that controls employee signatures? Are they running Windows NT still???
-Luci (She/Her)
Federal employee here. We have to make our own email signatures. I have not been told to remove pronouns by an official channel, but I have already removed pronouns and switched to having Ms. infront of my name, cause it has the same effect and the administration is too stupid to know that.
You heard it here first, folks. Pronouns are out, prenouns are in.
Edit: although this is not inclusive for our non-binary friends. Open to suggestions on that one.
Mx maybe? Follows the same format but allows for it to be non gendering. Idk I have a feeling it might be incorrect or there maybe a issue with it having a x because of chromosomes.
"Mx? Must be Mexican. Or DNS specialist. "
although this is not inclusive for our non-binary friends. Open to suggestions on that one.
I’m by no means an expert here, but I think that’s what “Mx” is used for.
Antinouns
That’s way too dangerous without a containment field.
flashpanda has used two pronouns, “I” and “We”. Please remove these pronouns by the end of the day.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/pronouns-personal-i-me-you-him-it-they-etc
From now on flashpanda must to refer to flashpanda in third person like Solomon Grundy.
peoplebeproblems like this. peoplebeproblems recommend having everyone start referring to eachother in the full third person. Thank troybot, peoplebeproblems hope this catches on.
CileTheSane wants to know where Luigi is when CileTheSane needs him.
CileTheSane meant to say:
needs
himLuigi
How does that convey the same effect?
What if you are non binary?
Many nonbinary people use Mx. but that’s a personal decision.
One of my favorite sci fi authors simplified it to just “M.”
Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms. can just be boiled down to “M.”.
If I actually cared, that’s probably what I’d pick.
To me, that just means “monsieur.”
I could see it working for that too!
Lol, we on Citrix cant even set a signature anymore cuz outlook is screwed up
Pronouns should be used at the discretion of the individual. They should be able to choose who receives them, how it’s relayed, and what the pronouns will be. They should be able to change them whenever they want.
Putting this into a database such as active directory isn’t simple when it has requirements that I’ve stated.
It’s sometimes easier to just let the individual maintain their own signature.
We use a third party tool and a custom schema. Users can use a simple agent to update pronouns or make other adjustments like display their direct line. Works great, AD is still the source of truth.
Oh, no. No, no no. It’s much worse than that.
Hell if they were still on NT we’d be safer.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there are still a few Novell Netware boxes out there.
OH GOD
I’ll have you know that I am an official paper CNE.
Trump likely doesn’t know what an email signature is, let alone would have thought of this. This and things like it are the work of the real powers within trump’s orbit. They get this stuff done while everyone is distracted with the diarreah leaking from trump’s mouth.
I’d day this is the distraction for the real damage.
Probably Elon’s henchmen taking over OPM, or something else that hasn’t bubbled up yet.
He doesn’t know how government works, he doesn’t know what tariffs do, he’s just the loudmouth sock puppet doing what some other evil assholes are telling him to do
Same as it ever was.
Oh, thank god they’re focusing on the important things… /s
Any day now and those egg prices will come crashing down.
Trump is working to lower egg prices by reducing demand for them, which is why he’s now trying to kill or deport a significant fraction of the American population.
How the fuck am I supposed to know if I should treat someone poorly if I can’t tell if they’re a female because they’ve got a unisex name like Rory or Casey or Robin?
/s
BlameThePeacock cannot use such language! BlameThePeacock used the word “I”, which is a pronoun. BlameThePeacock has until the end of the day to remove the offensive word “I” from all emails.
Other words that must be removed include “You”, “Me”, “It”.
Please refer to this article for a complete list of all offensive words…
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/pronouns-personal-i-me-you-him-it-they-etc
BlameThePeacock used the word “I”, which is a pronoun.
As is “which”.
Oh shit, you’re right!
Well fuck, I didn’t like this job anyways, I’ll see myself out now…
That’ll bring down the cost of living fs
I’m sure they’re doing something else awful behind the scenes and this is just a distraction for that.
Look. I know we want to dunk on this continuing train wreck that is TWELVE DAYS IN and has wrecked so much.
But - and here I’m paraphrasing my friend who is a psyche, does deal with people most highlighted by signaled pronouns and is also affected directly - “Stating the pronouns causes ‘othering’, is NOT helpful, and only exists to make white normies feel good”. Like, it had no benefit outside of social media fake Internet points.
I’m not a shrink. I’m not affected. I am trying to see where I can care. On this one, it’s really challenging, and my friend says that’s because it’s junk.
So, good, if the dirt bags feel like they’re sticking it to the libs while removing something designed just for influencers. Doesn’t affect me or my friend or people like … them. (Wow I hate to say ‘them’ there when I want to say ‘him or her’ but it’s ‘them’, like they’re not us and we’re not them. The othering is high on this one)
