"Penmanship" is now "handwriting" as Washington state removes gender bias in statutes

Reuters ^ | APRIL 22, 2013 | LAURA L. MYERS

[tacticalogic]

Whoever controls the terms controls the debate.

[reg45]

Doesn’t the term “handwriting” discriminate against people without hands?

[luvbach1]

Language evolves over time based on usage, utility, and necessity. It should not be forcible change based on stupidity.

[Graybeard58]

Now the question comes up is what are they going to do with the word “homo” which is Latin for ‘man’?

It's also Greek for "same".

-- a) From the Greek homos meaning same / the same, as in homosexuality (same-sex love), homogenous (uniform). (The opposite is hetero- from the Greek heteros meaning different from);

-- b) From the Latin homo, meaning human / human being (a member of the genus Homo), as in Homo sapiens, hominophobia, homicide.

That's why a lesbian is also a homosexual.

[GeronL]

workcraft, brinkscraft, statecraft and craftcraft?

[tacticalogic]

I’m guessing they won’t touch “manslaughter” because if they make it too generic people might think it includes fetuses.

[Senator_Blutarski]

Eastern Washington state is quite conservative. The west coast of the state is a la-la land filled with the enlighten elite.

[Flick Lives]

“Words matter,” said Liz Watson, a National Women’s Law Center senior adviser.

Fail.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Gender based terminology was eliminated in Newspeak 4, I believe.

[BigCinBigD]

Intetresting that “Kohl-Welles” is also a Klingon term for Targ spittle.

[BlueLancer]

"Words matter,” said Liz Watson, a National Women’s Law Center senior adviser."

Liz Watson

Double-fail

[Venturer]

It doesn’t get much dumber than this.

[OldPossum]

mens and wymyns

I actually heard an Army sergeant address a group of men, "Menses, we..."

I kid thee not.

[CPOSharky]

Are they going to change “mailman” to “person person”?

[winkadink]

HOW STUPID!

[FatherFig1o155]

While Rome burns...

[RobinOfKingston]

At least the dipsticks (that’s polite-speak for different descriptive term) are still teaching cursive, by whatever name ... provided it is cursive, and not merely printing.