Pronoun Backlash

[Rev. Rye]

I am figuring a gender reveal won't be planned. And if one is, I will be even more confused.

And the way gender reveals have been going in the past couple years, that's probably a good thing. If it turned out that it was a gender reveal party gone horribly wrong that ended up causing the apocalypse, I wouldn't be too surprised.

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But I don't feel duty-bound to list my own preferred pronouns in my profile (because I don't care). Plenty of my gay friends used "she" when referring to me (they did that with everybody) and it didn't bug me one bit. It was totally fine. I just rolled with it.

Maybe this actress person feels the same way (shrug).

Is there something I'm not getting?

According to the hidden part of the article, it's meant to make preferred pronouns more visible and the hope is that if enough cisgender people take part in it, just stating a person's preferred pronouns would become normal. That said, many people are fine with identifying as their birth gender, and, for many of them, it's easy to guess what their preferred pronoun is. For instance, if you looked at me and my beard, it's easy to assume that I'd prefer to be addressed as he, and you'd be right. And in cases like this, it's not hard to imagine people asking: