Euro chiefs ban 'Miss' and 'Mrs'

telegraph.co.uk ^ | 3/15/09 | Simon Johnson

[melt]

The European Parliament has banned the terms 'Miss' and 'Mrs' in case they offend female MEPs.

The politically correct rules also mean a ban on Continental titles, such as Madame and Mademoiselle, Frau and Fraulein and Senora and Senorita.

Guidance issued in a new 'Gender-Neutral Language' pamphlet instead orders politicians to address female members by their full name only.

Officials have also ordered that 'sportsmen' be called 'athletes', 'statesmen' be referred to as 'political leaders' and even that 'synthetic' or 'artificial' be used instead of 'man-made'.

The guidance lists banned terms for describing professions, including fireman, air hostess, headmaster, policeman, salesman, manageress, cinema usherette and male nurse.

However MEPs are still allowed to refer to 'midwives' as there is no accepted male version of the job description.

The booklet also admits that "no gender-neutral term has been successfully proposed" to replace 'waiter' and 'waitress', allowing parliamentarians to use these words in a restaurant or café.

[melt]

The European Parlia"men"t needs to ban its own name...

[boomop1]

Glad they found something useful to do, don't want to offend any ugly wenches..

[mylife]

Europe is lost

[Feckless]

So... what you’re telling me is there are no testicles left on the European continent? Do they specifically prohibit “nappy headed ho’s”?

[mathurine]

Effete European intellectuals with nothing worthwhile to do. Maybe they could send some MEN to Afghanistan to better fulfill their NATO obligations. Idol hands are the devil’s workshop.

[IronJack]

I will now take extra precautions to use the gender-specific terms in defiance of this pc hijacking of my beloved language.

[Venturer]

Id this isnt satire or from the Onion a lot of people have lost the F$#@^&* minds.

[ari-freedom]

there are no real men left in Europe

[rfp1234]

OOOOps, I meant "Personatee".

[pissant]

The new castrati

[SkyDancer]

Like Person and Human and Menopause ...

[truthguy]

Just a few questions. Just WHO are these people making up these rules? Do they have any real power. Do their decisions have any power.

Has Europe gone mad?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

This is a joke right?

[muawiyah]

Part of this reflects the utter subjugation of the Continent by English speaking people. Frankly it is NOT possible to even speak an inflected language such as French, German, Spanish, Italian, etc. WITHOUT being gender specific.

The European intellectuals who thought this one up obviously didn't use their brains.

[HEY4QDEMS]

I simply refer to them as “chicks” just to be safe.

[bossmechanic]

Blithering idiots. They say if ya don’t use something, eventually ya lose it.
In this case, I suppose it was the brains followed by the balls.

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[melt]

Next thing you know, they'll be demanding Germany start calling itself 'Gery'...

[libh8er]

To the sign holder: Don't worry. dear. You will never be mistaken for one.

[gogogodzilla]

As per guidelines set down in the movie ‘Idiocracy’, women shall no longer be referred to by name, but by the term “Funbags”.

There, this satisfies European requirements while taking their Islamic values into consideration as well.

:-P