“I think it sounds like encouraged teachers to ask students about their pronouns, but they’re not telling teachers to share their pronouns. The main complaint is that students are the ones making an effort to include pronouns in their Zoom names, while many staff members have yet to do so. Some students think that the way pronouns are currently handled feels forced and problematic. “It’s normalizing the idea of non binary genders, or even just trans people in general, and that gender expression doesn’t always equal gender identity,” said sophomore Sam Gordon. Normalizing pronouns would mean making sharing and asking for pronouns a regular exchange, and could make non-binary people feel more accepted. She explained that “indicating pronouns might be a more complicated issue” for some of your classmates, and by sharing yours first it can make them more comfortable and “help normalize pronouns.” But recently I was taking a Storytelling Workshop, and when we were all asked to give our names and our pronouns somebody said something about always putting she/her on a name tag, because otherwise you’re othering people,” said Birdwell.Ĭrystal agreed that everyone should make an effort, and pointed out that it’s almost more important for people who have commonly used pronouns to volunteer first. “A person of privilege doesn’t realize they’re privileged in certain ways, so because I am a cis-woman who identifies as female it never occurred to me. Almost everyone is guilty of this for at least some period of time, including English teacher Leslie Birdwell. People who don’t think about their own pronouns are less likely to feel the need to indicate them.
Many students recognize this, and those who don’t often don’t know enough about it.
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