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Originally Posted by spiderplant
Working in a multinational company, and communicating mainly by email, I can't tell the gender of many of my colleagues from their name. Yes, you can always work around it, but knowing the pronoun to use makes things easier.
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We have managed to survive without it for the last 30 years or so email has been around without any major issues, even in multinational companies.
I spent some time working at a translation company with worldwide offices and translators in most countries and I never once had to find out if anyone was male or female. Maybe twice I wasn't sure of their sex but it made no difference to any correspondence.
I noticed today by chance that there is a pregnant man emoji on my phone. I seriously thought I had got it wrong and it was just my eyesight but I looked it up and yes, the EMOJI consortium added a pregnant man emoji last year to their standard emoji list. You couldn't make this stuff up