Although this seems nice, I don't think it actually solves the bigger problem (if there actually is such a problem in the first place). You can not wear a label everywhere you go with your preferred pronoun, this would lead to people stuffing their bios with all their genes, preferences and believes (eg. gender, race, religion, political view, etc.).
The actual problems are:
1) People assuming someone's gender.
2) People getting upset when their gender is incorrectly assumed.
3) Not having a well established social protocol to ask someone their gender without one or both of the parties feeling uncomfortable.
4) In my opinion it further emphasizes that gender is something really important, that should be mentioned immediately as it changes the way you look at someone. I think the correct progressive way of thinking is to disregard gender entirely and assume everyone is "genderless" unless it actually matters. Does it really matter if he is a he or a she? Does it matter that much if a stranger on the internet uses the wrong pronoun?
5) Same issue applies for all other previously mentioned characteristics of an individual (race, religion, political views, etc.).
Although this seems nice, I don't think it actually solves the bigger problem (if there actually is such a problem in the first place). You can not wear a label everywhere you go with your preferred pronoun, this would lead to people stuffing their bios with all their genes, preferences and believes (eg. gender, race, religion, political view, etc.).
The actual problems are:
1) People assuming someone's gender.
2) People getting upset when their gender is incorrectly assumed.
3) Not having a well established social protocol to ask someone their gender without one or both of the parties feeling uncomfortable.
4) In my opinion it further emphasizes that gender is something really important, that should be mentioned immediately as it changes the way you look at someone. I think the correct progressive way of thinking is to disregard gender entirely and assume everyone is "genderless" unless it actually matters. Does it really matter if he is a he or a she? Does it matter that much if a stranger on the internet uses the wrong pronoun?
5) Same issue applies for all other previously mentioned characteristics of an individual (race, religion, political views, etc.).