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.
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Sheesh. Well, that explains why I have the disturbing feeling my subconscious is being violated by alien probes.
I live in Massachusetts.
It is legal to carry some around, but I don’t think you can smoke it in public.
Well, maybe not legal, they decriminalized it. I had to look, and it sounds like you can carry an ounce of marijuana with you, and if caught, will pay $100 and your record doesn’t get dinged.
Ya gotta wonder about anyone who cannot laugh at themselves.
You know, a fish without a bicycle is like a man without a feminist girlfriend!
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