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Mass. lawmaker: Rename ‘General Hooker Entrance’ to state house; it’s ‘offensive’ to women
Washington Times ^
| March 17, 2017
| Ken Shepherd
Posted on 03/18/2018 10:04:17 AM PDT by C19fan
A Bay State lawmaker is calling on her colleagues to change the sign to an entrance for the Massachusetts State House named after Joseph Hooker, a Union general in the Civil War, saying his surname is tied up with a slang term for prostitutes and is demeaning to women.
Female staffers dont use that entrance because the sign is offensive to them, State Rep. Michelle DuBois, Brockton Democrat, told CBS Boston in a recently aired interview.
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TOPICS: History; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: dubois; feminism; hooker; josephhooker; massachusetts; mediawingofthednc; metoo; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; statehouse
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Dumb a## politician looking for attention. General Hooker was a native of MA. The slang term hooker was in use before Hooker became a Union general.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:04:17 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
How dare they claim only women can be hookers! That’s sexist!!!
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:06:49 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: C19fan
Well, Massachusetts already has a long history of politicians and general hookers...
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:08:18 AM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
(Progressives are turning America into "Harrison Bergeron" as conceived by Ayn Rand.)
To: C19fan
Tell State Rep. Michelle DuBois to grow up and sh*tcan the PC blabbery.
Hooker is a family name, so is Dick.
Grow up and learn to respect and separate family names from terms of the gutter.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:10:50 AM PDT
by
Hostage
(nga)
To: C19fan
Would she feel any better if they renamed it the “Specific Hooker Entrance?”
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:11:00 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(When words can mean anything, they can also mean nothing.)
To: C19fan
Perhaps just a rename to “Hooker Entrance.”
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:15:47 AM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: C19fan
Insanity!
It's an attack on a person because of his name. Just another excuse to erase our history. Reminds me of ESPN(?) removing an announcer (an Asian) because his name is Lee.
Where will this insanity stop? When we have removed all traces of our history?
To: C19fan
Another dykish, confused woman in government who doesn’t belong there.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:17:10 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
To: C19fan
“...State Rep. Michelle DuBois, Brockton Democrat,...”
Aww... a politician has her panties in a wad ... Whatsamatta, Shelly... the term hits too close to home for ya?
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:18:12 AM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:18:24 AM PDT
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is what I read in the papers.)
To: C19fan
Oof...
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:18:33 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
To: C19fan
And I guess those or other women don’t use hoes or rakes for the same reason?
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:18:46 AM PDT
by
Chasaway
(Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?)
To: C19fan
They have better things to do in mass but they don't do them!
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:20:25 AM PDT
by
vigilante2
(I fixed my flag)
To: C19fan
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:21:07 AM PDT
by
EdnaMode
To: apocalypto
Insanity, it is. So much craziness. Last year a Portland, Oregon, school district got rid of the name "Lynch" from its schools because of its racist overtones. The Lynch family had given the school district the land.
If only these same nuts had gotten rid of Loretta Lynch for the same reason.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:22:00 AM PDT
by
Kipp
To: Jim 0216
I looked her up last night. Her bio's quite light.
Profession is "public administration" or the like.
Oh, and she's another one that warned illegal aliens of a potential ICE sweep...
To: C19fan
So these people just sit around and try to think of this sh!te? MLK wasn’t a King, but we’re are not changing everything named after him. Neither of the President Fords are trucks and nothing.
Political correctness has turned into political craziness.
I’m not comfortable with the name of the Presidential residence.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:22:54 AM PDT
by
ALASKA
(Watching a coup..........)
To: Jim 0216
She won't be mistaken for a hooker in a million years.
She looks more like a clerk at the DMV:
"You will have to fill this form out again, no erasures or cross-outs allowed!!!".
To: C19fan
I think it’s fitting, in the contemporary sense. I bet that there’s plenty of political whores crossing through that particular threshold, male and female.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:24:38 AM PDT
by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
To: C19fan
Offensive to women? They should be proud of having developed and thrived along with the world's oldest profession.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:25:05 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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