{"id":32521,"date":"2024-03-15T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T21:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32521"},"modified":"2024-03-15T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T21:50:01","slug":"pikachu-i-choose-hu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/15\/pikachu-i-choose-hu\/","title":{"rendered":"Pikachu, I Choose Hu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had not realized I could select &#8220;Hu&#8221; as a pronoun.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/pronouns.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I would choose that as my pronouns except I fear it would be denigrated as <em>cultural appropriation<\/em> rather than cultural appreciation of Mongolian throat-singing metal:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jM8dCGIm6yc?si=W6oJ0G9qP1PZtm2y\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Also, just to be pedantic, but:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let the employer know what pronouns you use so they can address you correctly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>He\/him<\/em>, et ab., are third-person pronouns.  They&#8217;re used when people are talking <em>about<\/em> you.  My employer can address me by name or by &#8220;you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I sometimes wonder if I&#8217;m not being considered for positions because I have twenty-plus years&#8217; backlog on this here blog not taking wrongthink and rightthink seriously.<\/p>\n<p>As this question was marked optional, I did not answer it on the online application, which scored me in some fashion in the omission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had not realized I could select &#8220;Hu&#8221; as a pronoun. I would choose that as my pronouns except I fear it would be denigrated as cultural appropriation rather than cultural appreciation of Mongolian throat-singing metal: Also, just to be pedantic, but: Let the employer know what pronouns you use so they can address you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32523,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32521\/revisions\/32523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}