Posted on 04/23/2013 10:15:14 AM PDT by massmike
Washington state’s governor signed into law on Monday the final piece of a six-year effort to rewrite state laws using gender-neutral vocabulary, replacing terms such as “fisherman” and “freshman” with “fisher” and “first-year student.”
Lawmakers have passed a series of bills since 2007 to root out gender bias from Washington statutes, though a 1983 state mandate required that all laws be written in gender-neutral terms unless a specification of gender was intended.
“This was a much larger effort than I had envisioned. Mankind means man and woman,” said Democratic state Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles of Seattle.
The bill passed the Democrat-controlled state House 70-22 on April 9 and unanimously cleared the state Senate on Feb. 8 before being signed by Democratic Governor Jay Inslee.
(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...
Oh I get it ...
pen-MAN-ship is just so offensive to people who... um, I dunno but it has the word MAN in it so it must offend someone.
No go practice your penwomanship.
With sequester and all how do they have the time and money to right these terrible injustices!!
Yep, it appears all the economic problems have been solved, crime has been eliminated, cancer has been cured so now they can go after things like this.
Soon, calling a man a man, will be considered sexist. The new accepted term will be non-female, wait female has male in it, got to get rid of that too. Woman has man in it too.
I’m sure they already have a PC term for them, I just don’t know what it is.
PenMANship is sexist? It took me a second to understand what they were talking about.
Man, the ‘60s losers are in power and ramming their whacked out, drug induced brain damaged ideas through wherever they can.
What a useless group of people and I’m one of the last baby boomer ‘60s &’70s losers as well. People like my father and others that went through WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam must be spinning in their graves, they risked their lives so this could happen?
Man, I miss President Reagan. He was a man, not some metrosexual giggling like a school girl like our current occupier of the White House does.
At least for a day, there is another state that displays as much stupidity in its government as mine does here in Massachusetts.
If only for a day.
So what are they going to do with ‘cockpit’?
This is going to be a real problem for the HuMan race.
Or a ‘Sperm Whale’?
Skulls, ooh scary. If you have to say you’re a man, you’re not.
The pen is also ugly, looks like something some sixteen year old goth would come up with but at least they’d have an excuse. What does that abomination go for?
After Sly came out in favor of gun control, I lost the tiny bit of respect I had for him. So, are they going to do to his movies what Spielberg did with ET and replace all the guns with walki talkis?
or thalidomide babies
I don’t have a issue with “cockpit”.
I suggest it be called a “cockPLACE”. I think “pit” is entirely too suggestive to us men for a place to do our job.
and what about languages that have gender built into the gramar?
Hu-person
OH WAIT.. it has SON in it...
hmmmmm
This is sure hard...
Aliens would come here and declare “I can’t figure this place out. Should we obliterate them or just leave?”
Drat, now I've done it too!
So, if I walk into a True value, and I need a 3/4” brass nipple, what should I be asking for from now on?
How about male and female fittings? “innies and outies?”
We got the government in this state that we deserve - this is, above all else, true.
The only paper in the state that would endorse this clown was the one in Olympia, so even liberals thought he was an idiot.
It’ll be funny watching Boeing march out of here. They’ll shift government business to WA, but only until Senator Rocket Scientist retires.
I hate living here.
I got it, I got it!
“Humyn”.
Uh oh. That sounds too much like the place where Hillary would store her cigars.
I guess that won’t work.
Where they put the snuke?
hahaha...why does this remind me of “The Knights That Say ‘Nee’”?
And for all you people whose surnames end in “MAN”....
You’re next
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