Feel free to vote according to your opinion on this issue.Īs a non-binary person (albeit one who does use pronouns - they/them), this is not a common choice, but neither is it terribly unusual (it's probably about as common as someone requesting the pronoun it, and both are much less common than a non-binary person requesting they/them pronouns, one of the more common sets of neo-pronouns, or a mix of pronouns). Whether that means the above answer is worthless or still interesting is in the eye of the beholder. * Edit: My guesses turned out to be wrong. I would treat this person as I treat any other person who hasn’t expressed a special wish to be referred to in some specific way, and not spend time worrying about it. To summarize, this seems to be nothing more than a small misunderstanding. This ended up through some automated process as an event listing (sent as an email or displayed on a departmental seminars web page) that shows “no pronouns please” appearing after the academic’s name, with no context to indicate what that’s supposed to mean. The academic didn’t know what to write in the pronouns field, or perhaps is opposed to the inclusion of pronouns as part of one’s description of who they are, or simply misunderstood the question, so they wrote “no pronouns please”. That web form has fields to fill for a name, bio, and apparently pronouns as well. Second, based on your clarification, what I’m guessing happened here * is that the academic was filling a web form in which they entered their presentation details (title, abstract and so forth), in response to a request from a seminar organizer. I respect people’s wishes when they make requests of me about how to refer to them, but I need to understand the request first in order to comply. So I wouldn’t worry much about “slipping”. First, saying “no pronouns please” is such a vague request that I wouldn’t even know how to begin to comply with it.
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