It’s pronouns, not rocket science.
Or isn’t it?
On Wednesday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration made an ascendant announcement: NASA’s joining the gender revolution.
Blast off–
We’re committed to supporting the right of every employee…to be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns.
Social media users were urged to “read a statement from [the] Office of Diversity & Equal Opportunity in regards to a recent gender pronouns IT project.”
NASA is committed to supporting every NASA employee’s right to have their name and pronouns used.
Click here to read a statement from our Office of Diversity & Equal Opportunity in regards to a recent gender pronouns IT project: https://t.co/Z8Q1H0WIND pic.twitter.com/MlHDJWCrhL
— NASA (@NASA) March 10, 2022
Take a step in.
Through an effort to create a more inclusive workplace, NASA recently completed an IT project at Goddard Space Flight Center that allowed approximately 125 employees to test the option of including their gender pronouns in NASA’s email display fields — which currently includes each employee’s name, center, and an organizational code. This test’s results will help to improve diversity, equity and inclusion as well as accessibility.
All it comes down to is:
NASA is fully committed to supporting every employee’s right to be addressed by their correct name and pronouns. NASA employees are able to use their gender pronouns as part of their email signature blocks.
Federal subsidiary encourages employees to participate:
NASA supports this option and it is maintained. Employees can also share their gender identity and support the LGBTQIA+ community.
The statement is signed by NASA’s “Associate Administrator for Diversity and Equal Opportunity.”
The space agency is not the only one interested in enlightenment, as you probably already know.
Participation-trophy critics used to claim that a whole generation wouldn’t be able to find work. The corporations caught up to youth culture. Likewise, some may have assumed America’s updated pronoun practices would remain relegated to private industry.
Yet, the federal government is waking up to a heightened level of consciousness.
Army Chaplain is Investigated for Calling Transgenders ‘Mentally Unfit’
Sailors Have the Choice of Whichever Locker Room Fits Their Gender Identity
Navy SEAL Ethos goes Gender-Neutral and Drops Toxically Masculine Terms
Air Force Academy Professor Teaches CRT and ‘Structural Racism’ to Cadets
Air Force Forms ‘LGBTQ’ Focus Group
Nevada Air Force Base Hosts Drag Show
Military Generals Inspire More Women to Combat
As for our profound pronoun progress, it’s worth noting what exactly is going on.
We’re on the verge of a supremely sophisticated society. Our institutions do more than just accommodate the few people in distress.
Instead, Americans from kindergarten through cubicles are given an assignment in this age of icons and screen names.Create your own character
You’re being tasked with settling on a name. The burden of choosing pronouns falls on your shoulders.
We’re being told to build who we are — as if life is an online account.
Maybe pronouns can be considered our passwords.
And don’t forget “neo” pronouns — such as bunself and kittenself.
As we all create our purrfect profiles, we’ll be wired into a system colossally more complicated than before.
Don’t expect it to end with names and nouns.
As for where we are at the moment, grammatical coherence hasn’t yet caught up — people who insist they’re a “they” still refer to themselves as “I” — not “we.”
Oddly enough, that’s the word that hasn’t changed at all: How we refer to ourselves.
Instead, we’re being asked to indicate how strangers must speak in our absence.
Where’s this all going to land?
One thing’s for sure, we’re not set for simplicity.
Compared to the ways of yore — even more so now that NASA’s on board — where complication’s concerned, I’d say the sky’s the limit.
-ALEX
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