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The uproar over taking ‘man’ out of ‘manhole’
The Conversation ^ | 7/23/19 | Shannon Dea Shannon Den Professor of Philosophy, University of Waterloo

Posted on 07/19/2024 11:00:58 AM PDT by DallasBiff

A new city ordinance in Berkeley, Calif., that officially changes the name from ‘manhole cover’ to ‘maintenance cover’ has stirred up a media commotion. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu).

It is not every day that a change to a municipal code for a medium-sized city makes international news. But when city council in Berkeley, Calif., had its first reading of a proposal to remove gendered language from its municipal code, the media went to town.

The 14-page proposal provides a rationale for the changes, cites legal and grammatical support, specifies the wording that will change and estimates the cost of the initiative at a mere $600. The proposal was part of Berkeley city council’s consent agenda — that is, the portion of any agenda that is deemed so pro forma and uncontroversial that it isn’t brought to the floor for discussion. From Berkeley’s perspective, this was all pretty dry business.

Almost immediately though, the proposal generated dozens of high-profile media stories, the overwhelming majority of which touted in their headlines one particular proposed change: the replacement of “manhole” with “maintenance hole.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: berkeley; california; ednorton; manhole; morons; pittsburgh; sewer
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Back some 58 tears ago, my Mother(RIP) would drag me to her shopping in Pittsburgh, Kaufmans and Horne's, and she always said beware of open manholes while walking.

I appreciate sewer workers, what would Ed Norton say?

Have fun it's Friday.

1 posted on 07/19/2024 11:00:58 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Grace Slick hardest hit!


2 posted on 07/19/2024 11:02:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: DallasBiff
Call it a womanhole.


3 posted on 07/19/2024 11:02:52 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: DallasBiff
When was the last time Berkeley sent a woman down one of those things?

-PJ

4 posted on 07/19/2024 11:03:47 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: DallasBiff

This has been going on since the 1980s...I worked for a municipality back then and we were redoing our contract formats and this as******* idea came up. Idiots...


5 posted on 07/19/2024 11:04:02 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: DallasBiff

I remember this same story making the news back in the late 1970s.


6 posted on 07/19/2024 11:04:14 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Arise and shine,and give God the glory!-A trail cook's morning call.)
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To: DallasBiff

Sewer Access Cover...................


7 posted on 07/19/2024 11:10:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: DallasBiff

All this interest in ‘holes’.

Front hole
Back hole
now, manhole, oops maintenance hole.

Next is front maintenance hole, ..., etc., just wait and see.


8 posted on 07/19/2024 11:11:31 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: DallasBiff

I find all this “Gender affirming/apologies” stuff to be the dumbest thing that has happened in this country this century. People need to grow up.


9 posted on 07/19/2024 11:12:15 AM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: Political Junkie Too

Ive heard the same happened in some places, where signs which read “Men Working” , such as on road maintenance, have been banned. Supposedly its offensive to women to suggest that men are doing such jobs.


10 posted on 07/19/2024 11:12:52 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (")
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To: DallasBiff

Actually, they did not take “man” out.

They just added a bunch of other letters-

—i-tenance hole.


11 posted on 07/19/2024 11:13:28 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Don’t forget the ridiculous Bonus Hole.


12 posted on 07/19/2024 11:14:04 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: DallasBiff

Does pot hole promote drugs?

My bad I forget maryjane is pretty much legal now.


13 posted on 07/19/2024 11:15:16 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: DallasBiff

I think a DEI redesign is long overdue. Let’s make them oval.


14 posted on 07/19/2024 11:15:35 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: DallasBiff

Here in NH I’ve seen *raised steel structures”.

I could about see out my ears with as much eye rolling I did over that.

God, spare us from PCness.


15 posted on 07/19/2024 11:17:58 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: DallasBiff

Idiocracy writ large.


16 posted on 07/19/2024 11:19:41 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: DallasBiff

We can call it a womanhole if that makes them happy.


17 posted on 07/19/2024 11:20:13 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Yet we never see women at these job sites.

How many women do we see walking the girders of high-rise buildings under construction?

How many women do we see changing the light bulbs at the top of bridges and antenna towers?

How many women do we see climbing down manholes into the sewer systems?

-PJ

18 posted on 07/19/2024 11:20:28 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: DallasBiff

Mainhole?

Do the few women who work underground really care that access is called a manhole?

This has got to be the doing of a bureaucrat who never turned a wrench in her/zer/xis life.


19 posted on 07/19/2024 11:24:19 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: DallasBiff

Man has already been removed from manhole in some cities in Colorado


20 posted on 07/19/2024 11:26:34 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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