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Euro Chiefs Ban 'Miss' and 'Mrs'
Telegraph (UK) ^ | March 15, 2009

Posted on 03/15/2009 9:40:48 PM PDT by Steelfish

Euro chiefs ban 'Miss' and 'Mrs'

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

By Simon Johnson 15 Mar 2009

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 03/15/2009 9:40:48 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

I’m in favor of the gender-neutral “Asshat”.


2 posted on 03/15/2009 9:41:45 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Steelfish

Certainly is no excess of manliness over there to offend the euroweenies.


3 posted on 03/15/2009 9:45:04 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Steelfish

Is this from the Onion ?


4 posted on 03/15/2009 9:45:05 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Steelfish

This sounds doubleplusgood!!!


5 posted on 03/15/2009 9:45:33 PM PDT by frankiep (Ron Paul was right)
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To: Steelfish

They have no problem with “neck choppers”, it would appear.


6 posted on 03/15/2009 9:47:51 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: Steelfish

Last I checked, Humans come in boy type and girl type.

If they’re going to start doing stupid things, where will it stop?

Will we not be able to have nations? races? families?

Why call a Jew a Jew or an Arab an Arab? Someone might get offended.

While we’re at it, let’s get rid of age language to, we’re all the same age with the same experience, no matter if you’ve been here for 3 years or 300 years!

Also, why don’t we blur the lines between idiots and intellectuals... oh wait... we already have, I guess that was the first to go.


7 posted on 03/15/2009 9:48:14 PM PDT by PureSolace (Trust in God)
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Does Islam really sound as bad as this crap? ... really? What is worse? Insane European socialist or a Islamist traditionalist? I'm torn... I'm truly torn.
8 posted on 03/15/2009 9:48:34 PM PDT by Porterville ( I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum)
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To: Steelfish

Well, seeing as how they don’t have any other problems I can see how they could become mired in such picayune, politically correct matters.


9 posted on 03/15/2009 9:49:06 PM PDT by WildcatClan (Iam fimus mos ledo ventus apparatus)
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To: Steelfish
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.

Dunno about that... we've been using the generic "waitron" in the food business here in the States for a long time. Friggin idjits.

/johnny

10 posted on 03/15/2009 9:49:16 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: Steelfish

reporterette
anchorette
aviatrix
editrix
blogress
motoriste
chanteuse


11 posted on 03/15/2009 9:49:51 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Steelfish

Back in the EUSSR...


12 posted on 03/15/2009 9:50:34 PM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: Steelfish

So I guess Mr and Ms are taboo?


13 posted on 03/15/2009 9:51:09 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: Interesting Times

As noted repeatedly here since 2001, the EU is just the Sovs w/o the tanks.


14 posted on 03/15/2009 9:53:35 PM PDT by SAJ
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To: Steelfish

I would think ‘server’ would fit as an alternative to waiter or waitress.


15 posted on 03/15/2009 9:54:50 PM PDT by Frogtacos (When our economy falls in the well can we elect Lassie as president?)
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To: Steelfish
Why don't they ban the Romance Languages altogether? after all, don't most of the words have a gender assigned? Why trouble yourself over whether it's la pussy or le pussy when talking about the neutered male of the species?
16 posted on 03/15/2009 9:57:35 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (May God save America from its government; this is no time for Obamateurs. Emmanuel = Haldeman?)
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To: NonValueAdded

Very good point and all the operas and classical music.


17 posted on 03/15/2009 10:00:28 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Apparently no real, pressing matters to solve in the European Parliament.


18 posted on 03/15/2009 10:00:44 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Steelfish

The EU should, instead, focus on making all countries have gender-neutral nouns. There is no good reason to have the articles der (masculine), die (feminine), and das (neutral), which all mean “the”, to modify German nouns, for example. Many other non-English languages have the same problem. It makes learning to speak a foreign language a pain in the buttinsky.

The Mr. and Mrs. thing pales in comparison.


19 posted on 03/15/2009 10:05:08 PM PDT by cookiedough
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"no gender-neutral term has been successfully proposed" to replace 'waiter' and 'waitress'

I propose "Waitron" for most of the EU, and in France they can use Pompous Twit...

20 posted on 03/15/2009 10:05:52 PM PDT by RobFromGa (I want to panic but I'm too confused...)
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