Mass. lawmaker: Rename ‘General Hooker Entrance’ to state house; it’s ‘offensive’ to women

Washington Times ^ | March 17, 2017 | Ken Shepherd

[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 don’t use that entrance because the sign is offensive to them,” State Rep. Michelle DuBois, Brockton Democrat, told CBS Boston in a recently aired interview.

[C19fan]

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.

[bgill]

How dare they claim only women can be hookers! That’s sexist!!!

[Ciaphas Cain]

Well, Massachusetts already has a long history of politicians and general hookers...

[Hostage]

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.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Would she feel any better if they renamed it the “Specific Hooker Entrance?”

[Menehune56]

Perhaps just a rename to “Hooker Entrance.”

[apocalypto]

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?

[Jim W N]

Another dykish, confused woman in government who doesn’t belong there.

[NFHale]

“...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?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

It’s all about me!

[Jim W N]

Oof...

[Chasaway]

And I guess those or other women don’t use hoes or rakes for the same reason?

[vigilante2]

They have better things to do in mass but they don't do them!

[EdnaMode]

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

[Kipp]

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.

[Calvin Locke]

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...

[ALASKA]

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.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

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!!!".

 

[factoryrat]

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.

[equaviator]

Offensive to women? They should be proud of having developed and thrived along with the world's oldest profession.