Posted on 07/17/2019 4:04:57 PM PDT by artichokegrower
At a Tuesday night city council meeting, Berkeley became the first city in America to ban the use of natural gas piping in new construction. But that was not the only utility-related issue they saw fit to attend to. No, there was another matter on deck: Eliminating the gendered connotations of words like "manhole" in the city municipal code.
No longer will the streets of fair Berkeley be dotted with manholes, nary a womanhole or nonbinaryhole in sight. With Tuesday night's vote, they have all been transmuted into "maintenance holes," that highest, hardest glass manhole-cover finally shattered.
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So NonHumanPersonKindLGBTQ? holes?
You’re correct. So HuPerKindLGBTQ? holes.
In related news, Barack Obama say he still favors the term “manhole”.
I just want men taken out of menstuarate.
In San Francisco they call them Man Vaginas.
As you can imagine utility workers there don’t like to talk about work at home. Most of ‘em.
I’m wondering who objected to the term ‘manhole’ to prompt this change. Did women feel left out that there is no ‘womanhole’ designation? Did men resent being associated with ‘holes’?
Gosh; all the conundrums of modern-day semantics...
What if they self identify as woman holes?
Leave it to Berkley to mess with the no 1 attraction in the Bay Area......how homophobic
I though manholes were “back holes.”
Oh hell no, signs just say workers present now
LOL, nice!
With the leftists in society pushing for gender neutrality, I think it is only fair they come up with another name for ladybugs.
What about ‘MENopause’?
Betcha 50 years from now the public will still be calling them manholes. Political correct bullshit.
Threads like this is why I come to FR. I need a laugh.
Manholes probably offended the feminists as they thought they referred to them.
This will not do. You can still pull the letters that make up the word, ‘man’ from maintenance.
And in order as well.
Call them:
Maintance
Accessable
Navigatable
Holes.
M.A.N. Holes
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