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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Notice they’re still not telling out the bozo fell through the cover. They are round so it and you can’t fall through.
Id assume its at least 97% males going down the holes anyway.... majority wins
Notice these yahoos never object to the use of “gunman.”
And vice versa. I mean, you have to deny science and biology and nature to believe that.
“Notice these yahoos never object to the use of “gunman.””
Excellent point!
Well fine then. We will no longer call them manhole covers. We shall call them “person hole covers”.
Ah good. Every other issue has been solved and now they can take on real issues
I suppose we will be required to take the man out of mankind as well. It’s funny though that I have never in my entire life seen anyone but a man go down into a manhole.
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