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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 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: History; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: dubois; feminism; hooker; josephhooker; massachusetts; mediawingofthednc; metoo; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; statehouse
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To: C19fan
As long as we're wasting time on this stuff vs lowering taxes etc., someone inform this pol she's got some work ahead of her.


21 posted on 03/18/2018 10:25:23 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: Jim 0216

That’s a man, baby.


22 posted on 03/18/2018 10:25:47 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Good one.


23 posted on 03/18/2018 10:25:59 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: C19fan

Let’s ban all books from Phillip K. Dick and all music from John Lee Hooker too.


24 posted on 03/18/2018 10:26:33 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: Menehune56

"Perhaps just a rename to “Hooker Entrance.”"

Maybe she'd prefer it if they changed "Entrance" to "Passageway".

25 posted on 03/18/2018 10:27:26 AM PDT by Songcraft ("Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
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To: Olog-hai

Notice, they don’t drug test these people that look like females before they go into government. Probably would test with enough testosterone to be a man.

Oof.


26 posted on 03/18/2018 10:30:12 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

Never mind the DNA profile.

Not that DuBois looks too much like a female.


27 posted on 03/18/2018 10:31:31 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: C19fan

cuz there are no liberal heroes with offensive names.....?


28 posted on 03/18/2018 10:31:34 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: C19fan
Can someone create a dictionary of what is NOT offensive?

We already have many dictionaries of all the words that someone (usually a liberal) can find offensive. For example


29 posted on 03/18/2018 10:34:24 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: C19fan

So stupid and stubborn, that I’ll bet someone told her it was a Generals name, and she didn’t care. Also, men can’t be hookers? What about those “trans” hookers, who identify as men?


30 posted on 03/18/2018 10:36:20 AM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: C19fan

It sounds to me as though the retarded Ms DuBois thinks all women are hookers. Typical “democrat”.


31 posted on 03/18/2018 10:37:34 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: C19fan
the epitome of victim hood combined with public school illiteracy
32 posted on 03/18/2018 10:47:34 AM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: C19fan

The Fuch family is not amused.


33 posted on 03/18/2018 10:48:27 AM PDT by healy61
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To: C19fan

Is there any proof her claim is true that women avoid the entrance due to the name? I can’t imagine being that juvenile.
Attention ho.


34 posted on 03/18/2018 10:50:33 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: DoodleBob

I would have used Climax for Georgia and substituted French Broad for North Carolina. And who would not have included French Lick, Indiana.


35 posted on 03/18/2018 10:51:21 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: DoodleBob
"Mary's Igloo"

LOL. I've been there, figuratively speaking.
 

36 posted on 03/18/2018 10:52:30 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: C19fan

You forgot, Big Bone Lick, Kentucky. And Climax, Michigan.


37 posted on 03/18/2018 10:54:32 AM PDT by healy61
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To: C19fan

After all the hookers legislators..not to mention Kennedys...invited through there NOW they get offended?


38 posted on 03/18/2018 10:55:39 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: C19fan

This is the type that will demand that the terrible ASSAULT Musket be removed from the statue of the MINUTEMEN guarding the bridge from the Redcoats.
Next will be the famous painting of the Pilgrim fathers walking to Church on Sundays, likewise fully armed with the ASSAULT weapons of the day. It must be taken down and hidden.


39 posted on 03/18/2018 10:57:38 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (.)
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To: C19fan

General Moron Entrance


40 posted on 03/18/2018 10:58:13 AM PDT by small farm girl (....)
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