I had a bizarre experience recently. I attended a meeting and was subjected to an introduction that read like a tinder bio. The introduction that could have come straight out of a woke seminar but this meeting had nothing to do with the mandatory DEI training so many companies in Canada subject their staff to, it was a standard business meeting.
The only thing this person is thinking as they do this is "everyone's attention is totally focused on me, hooray hooray internal wriggles of ecstasy"
that's why the whole thing keeps getting added on to: for the kind of person to whom it appeals, anything that makes it longer and longer is an absolute delight. They haven't anything interesting to contribute but they DO like demanding attention. What a godsend these practices are to them!
If you wouldn't get in trouble for it, the best way to deal with this is to look at your phone while the whole routine is being put through its paces. This robs the narcissist of the one currency they most desire: your focus.
I wish my brain didn’t auto-assume that the person who indulged this and wasted everyone’s time was progressive. They/we need to start calling this BS out directly so political affiliation is no longer married to this insanity. My current response to “and what are your pronouns?” is “whatever you assume,” you know, like back-in-the-day of not that long ago.
It’s the sign of a time where people have replaced their own judgment with the current trend. There is far too much value put on going along with the prevailing thought. It seems to be everything to a large group of people, like students at Ivy League universities.
This was fun. 😁 Sheesh, I’m glad to be living in my part of the world. The pronoun craze isn’t trendy here, and if somebody would attempt to introduce it here to “educate the society” we, latvians would just laugh in their faces and walk off. 🇱🇻
Mind blowing- 100% right “It was possibly the most self-serving, narcissistic and sociopathic thing I have ever heard.” - in addition to being self centered, I’d add that it feels cultish.
Thanks for sharing, what an outrageous thing. And yes, the person in question is a raging narcissist. At least he did you favor of outing himself, so you can now avoid him.
Good for you! I used to consider myself a liberal, but now with their tiresome virtue signaling, and more important, their authoritarian push on others to do the same stupid thing, I have said goodbye ! I am a women. That’s all! I introduce myself by my name and maybe depending on where I am, my hometown! If people can’t tell what pronouns to use for me, I’ll offer them the name of my Opthalmologist! This absurdity is eating away at our society , and if there’s anything I can do to stop it , I’ll do it. Certainly no liberal Democrat who supports this Maoist Cultural Revolution will ever get my vote!
Friends in government management positions always tell me about co-workers and underlings that love to waste time on meetings and Zoom calls as opposed to getting things done. Also known as doing your job.
I'm self employed and financially secure. If confronted with this I would probably say something along the lines of," Hi. I'm Dean. And I'm not an asshole". Just because I can and want to take a stance for those who can't.
Jeez, Kamala, I would never have guessed that you are a woman! And because of that you have these pronouns, she, her , and whatever! Wow! And I couldn’t know about your blue suit until you pointed it out! Thank you for this very important information !
I was in a business meeting. The guy went all wokey wokey on me. I sat through it for 3 sentences or so, and then cut in. "Stop. I'm not doing any business with you." And, got up and walked out of the meeting. He was shocked. But, I don't need him. Easy-ish for me to do. If I needed a job, for example, I might have had to suck it up.
Once again I am so grateful to live in a small town in Southern Patagonia Chile where no shares pronouns or any of this woke ideology.
The only thing this person is thinking as they do this is "everyone's attention is totally focused on me, hooray hooray internal wriggles of ecstasy"
that's why the whole thing keeps getting added on to: for the kind of person to whom it appeals, anything that makes it longer and longer is an absolute delight. They haven't anything interesting to contribute but they DO like demanding attention. What a godsend these practices are to them!
If you wouldn't get in trouble for it, the best way to deal with this is to look at your phone while the whole routine is being put through its paces. This robs the narcissist of the one currency they most desire: your focus.
You missed one attribute to add. Likelihood of survival once society collapses. In his case nil.
We really do need a reset. A hard one to clear out all the voluntarily mentally ill.
Just wow... I would not have been able to not laugh extremely hard.
I wish my brain didn’t auto-assume that the person who indulged this and wasted everyone’s time was progressive. They/we need to start calling this BS out directly so political affiliation is no longer married to this insanity. My current response to “and what are your pronouns?” is “whatever you assume,” you know, like back-in-the-day of not that long ago.
It’s the sign of a time where people have replaced their own judgment with the current trend. There is far too much value put on going along with the prevailing thought. It seems to be everything to a large group of people, like students at Ivy League universities.
This was fun. 😁 Sheesh, I’m glad to be living in my part of the world. The pronoun craze isn’t trendy here, and if somebody would attempt to introduce it here to “educate the society” we, latvians would just laugh in their faces and walk off. 🇱🇻
Mind blowing- 100% right “It was possibly the most self-serving, narcissistic and sociopathic thing I have ever heard.” - in addition to being self centered, I’d add that it feels cultish.
Thanks for sharing, what an outrageous thing. And yes, the person in question is a raging narcissist. At least he did you favor of outing himself, so you can now avoid him.
Good for you! I used to consider myself a liberal, but now with their tiresome virtue signaling, and more important, their authoritarian push on others to do the same stupid thing, I have said goodbye ! I am a women. That’s all! I introduce myself by my name and maybe depending on where I am, my hometown! If people can’t tell what pronouns to use for me, I’ll offer them the name of my Opthalmologist! This absurdity is eating away at our society , and if there’s anything I can do to stop it , I’ll do it. Certainly no liberal Democrat who supports this Maoist Cultural Revolution will ever get my vote!
Vyky Saiz wins the comments parade. The perfect response to his/her/they/them intros is simply ‘whatever’.
Sounds like a long long long meeting that day.
Friends in government management positions always tell me about co-workers and underlings that love to waste time on meetings and Zoom calls as opposed to getting things done. Also known as doing your job.
OMG one-upping the dude with a MORE obnoxious introduction would have been hilarious.
I'm self employed and financially secure. If confronted with this I would probably say something along the lines of," Hi. I'm Dean. And I'm not an asshole". Just because I can and want to take a stance for those who can't.
Jeez, Kamala, I would never have guessed that you are a woman! And because of that you have these pronouns, she, her , and whatever! Wow! And I couldn’t know about your blue suit until you pointed it out! Thank you for this very important information !
I was in a business meeting. The guy went all wokey wokey on me. I sat through it for 3 sentences or so, and then cut in. "Stop. I'm not doing any business with you." And, got up and walked out of the meeting. He was shocked. But, I don't need him. Easy-ish for me to do. If I needed a job, for example, I might have had to suck it up.