Posted on 07/18/2019 10:48:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
The city of Berkeley, California, is updating its municipal code to exclude gendered words like “manhole” and “manmade” in favor of more inclusive language, according to a new ordinance.
The City Council voted Tuesday night to adopt the new ordinance eliminating “gender preference language” in its code.
“Manholes” will now be called “maintenance holes,” “firemen” will become “firefighters,” “manmade” will be “artificial” and all instances of “men and women” will be replaced by “people.” Gendered pronouns, such as “he” and “she” will also be replaced with “they.”
“There’s power in language,” the bill’s primary author, Berkeley City Council member Rigel Robinson, told CNN. “This is a small move, but it matters.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
To be replaced with the term “Maintenance Hole”.
Confusing when some one refers to a hooker.
“So in an effort to have this perfect, Councilman will now be substituted with Council-idiot.”
Excellent. Best post on the thread.
Mankind means human beings, including women and children. No need to debase the English language by slavish adherence to PC-based corruptions to it.
MENopause
MENtally ill woMAN
How about woMAN and feMALE?
That'll screw up the audiophile release of Grace Slick's old solo album.
Whoever controls the language controls thought, controls the people.
PC is very Orwellian (1984).
It will at least keep them all busy for a while trying to think up new words to use, instead of the real ones.........................
How many words are there with “man” either at the beginning or middle or end? How many words end in “son”? These idiots will have a long time changing all that; keep them occupied in their closet for a while.
As is “hu-man”
Yes, they are fascinated by little things............
No thanks! That makes normal men think of a female anatomical part where man exits to begin his life.
Then spends much of the rest of it trying to get back in.
Changing words doesn’t change reality.
Does this stupid edict also eliminate “man-centric” words with a NEGATIVE connotation — like gunman, manhunt, manslaughter, etc.?
It does in their liberal bubble world...................
They are going after something SUPPOSED to be interpreted by being used by a male....???
HOWEVER
How about Manual.....
Or, better yet Manuel ... would we force a Latino to change his name because it has the offensive ‘man’ in it?
This is what WE have to push.....take their absurdity and turn it around on them...
Take words like leeway.....how about the nautical use of LEE? Shouldn’t we demand that word stop being used AND don’t forget the 100 or so billion Chinese named Lee.
Being absurd for the sake of absurdity
Supposedly so.
They aren’t called ‘Berzerkely’ for nothing..............
They better change the name of the town, also.
From Wikipedia, it was named after, OH MY!, a man …
According to the Centennial Record of the University of California, “In 1866…at Founders’ Rock, a group of College of California men watched two ships standing out to sea through the Golden Gate. One of them, Frederick Billings, thought of the lines of the Anglo-Irish Anglican Bishop George Berkeley, ‘westward the course of empire takes its way,’ and suggested that the town and college site be named for the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish philosopher.”[15] The philosopher’s name is pronounced BARK-lee, but the city’s name, to accommodate American English, is pronounced BERK-lee.[16]
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