Mx

Kind of sound like a racing bike does it?

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Mx and how I wouldn’t use it, well there is an article in the New York Times about it.

Sometimes cultural shifts rumble at a glacial pace. Sometimes they gather momentum so quickly that our language can only surge ahead in an effort to catch up. Think selfie, or vape, or normcore.

Next up may be Mx. (pronounced mix), a gender-neutral alternative to Ms. and Mr.

I wouldn’t want to use Mx because I think it is like broadcasting to the world that you are trans or genderqueer. The article goes on to point that out.

Alice H. Eagly, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University, questioned whether the use of Mx. is a good idea because it could signal (accurately or not) that someone identifies as neither male nor female, strictly speaking, or is in transition.

One reason the culture adopted the Ms. courtesy title, she said, was to avoid employment discrimination against married women, she said. The goal was to obscure personal details, not to highlight them.

“I can sympathize with the desire to not want to declare one gender or another, but using this new category on job applications and such would make me worry,” Professor Eagly said. “Really, we should just do away with all of these titles. That would be more progressive.”

As professor Eagly said, can you imagine sending in a resume using Mx? Yes, discrimination is illegal but why give them ammunition to black ball you when you are applying for a job.

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