Posted on 07/18/2019 10:48:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
The city of Berkeley, California, is updating its municipal code to exclude gendered words like “manhole” and “manmade” in favor of more inclusive language, according to a new ordinance.
The City Council voted Tuesday night to adopt the new ordinance eliminating “gender preference language” in its code.
“Manholes” will now be called “maintenance holes,” “firemen” will become “firefighters,” “manmade” will be “artificial” and all instances of “men and women” will be replaced by “people.” Gendered pronouns, such as “he” and “she” will also be replaced with “they.”
“There’s power in language,” the bill’s primary author, Berkeley City Council member Rigel Robinson, told CNN. “This is a small move, but it matters.
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And “mankind” is right out! (to be read in a Monty Python voice)
From now on, it will be called an a__hole.
Womanhole?
I was looking down on an intersection from one of our conference rooms. In and around that one intersection there were 28 a$$holes. I mean, manholes.
Today’s classic example of liberal I N S A N A T Y.
Every single day they try to outdo themselves.....morons, all of em.
They belong in an asylum, not running some form of government.
>> Gendered pronouns, such as “he” and “she” will also be replaced with “they.” <<
Talk about burying the lede!
This is Berkley... “Manholes” is a confusing term in the San Francisco area.
Personhole sounds kind of vulgar, yea?
So Killing Fields. I have to watch the movie again to learn how to survive them ‘cause if this doesn’t stop we are going to end up there.
If you don’t identify as plural, well you’re SOL.
So in an effort to have this perfect, Councilman will now be substituted with Council-idiot.
Oh the Hugh Manatee!
So they won’t be celebrating Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon, I take it
“There is power in language”
Y’all are a bunch of fags.
Manbun? Transman? Gay man?
Perfectly clear in the Castro...
Mannkind means human beings, including women and children. No need to debase the English language by slavish adherence to PC-based corruptions to it.
Wasting tax payer money to change a name ,just the name nothing else ,LOL
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