Please don't perpetuate Musk's mockery of the practice sharing your pronouns.

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8. No. Age is not a direct correlate on this any more than anything else on DU.

That is offensive as hell. How one can promote ageist stereotypes and bigotry in a post designed to support LGBTQ sensitivity escapes me.

And while Elon Musk's deplorable use of "pronouns" as an overt attack on the trans community in that post quite rightfully is called out, the fact that the tweet was likewise targeted at an 82-year-old hero of our public health system in the US, a courageous leader of NIH's infectious disease response and more importantly (with CDC) our National response for nearly 40 years including that to AIDs, SARS, Avian Flu, anthrax and smallpox bioterrorism risks, and COVID-19--calling for his PROSECUTION and imprisonment for doing his job and doing it well, deserves at least a mention and should not be parsed from the deserved recrimination.