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"Penmanship" is now 'handwriting' as Washington state removes gender bias in statutes
Reuters ^
| 4/23/2013
| Laura L. Myers
Posted on 04/25/2013 4:54:05 PM PDT by markomalley
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 new gender-neutral references, for example, include "journey-level plumber" instead of "journeyman plumber," "handwriting" in place of "penmanship," and "signal operator" for "signalman."
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: moonbattery
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To: Thom Pain
We should have seen this coming when they redefined “niggardly.”
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:27:05 PM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
To: BykrBayb
Well it was September and they said by January they would decide. I would have taught her myself the decision was due to I'm sure outrage by parents.
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:27:39 PM PDT
by
angcat
To: markomalley; a fool in paradise
In other news, the last remaining multinational record company Universal Warner has announced that singer-songwriter Aimee Mann had decided to change her last name to Personn.
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:31:05 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: angcat
I suppose you could still childcott them, but I don’t think it would be as good as an old fashioned boycott.
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:31:32 PM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
To: Revolting cat!
“I am PERSON hear me roar...”
To: BykrBayb
I'm praying they stay sane for another 5 years. Then I will go bankrupt sending her to the same Private high school her sister is graduating from next month. I'm sure the price will double in the next six years. My husband and I will die poor living in a hut.
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:34:54 PM PDT
by
angcat
To: markomalley
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:35:51 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: a fool in paradise
Oh, stop complaining! Take it like a... uh, person!
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:44:19 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: markomalley
Are we still allowed to say “bullshit!” To this? Or is that gender_non_neutered, too?
To: markomalley
I refuse to get “penalized” if I still say “penmanship”
(sounds like)
TT
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:48:51 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
To: Revolting cat!
You better shape up or the boogeyperson will get you!
And go to sleep to the sandperson can pay you a visit.
And the sandperson scares easily, but will be back. And in greater numbers.
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:50:01 PM PDT
by
boop
("You don't look so bad, here's another")
To: markomalley
Just watch your personners, folks, uh, I mean persons.
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:50:16 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: markomalley
So glad I live in South Carolina.
I doubt anyone of authority would even think about something like this, let alone try and make it law.
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:50:37 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
To: Thom Pain
They better rename Whitman County. Everyone knows that’s just racial code for “Whiteman”.
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:51:18 PM PDT
by
beelzepug
(Telling other people they need to die is a good way to get your own lamp blown out.)
To: beelzepug
"Civil engineering terms such as "man hole" and "man lock," also will not be changed because no common-sense substitutes could easily be found"
Gee, "common sense"?
In a freakin' bill that is filled to the brim with NONSENSE?
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:55:39 PM PDT
by
boop
("You don't look so bad, here's another")
To: markomalley
If these words offend you grow a pair.
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:58:21 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Obama is the Chicken Little of politics)
To: markomalley
The whole Latin language is gender specific (French, Italian, Spanish) - but I understand from reading it was a MANdate from the state to eliminate gender bias. They have no ideas the can of worms they just opened.
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posted on
04/25/2013 6:02:41 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: faithhopecharity
Definately not allowed. Replace with 0bama.
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posted on
04/25/2013 6:04:49 PM PDT
by
mykroar
(Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.-Thomas Paine)
To: mykroar
Replace with 0bama.No can do. That word ends in "ma" which is a term often used in reference to one's female parent. It is therefore sexist and must be avoided. /sarc
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posted on
04/25/2013 6:47:04 PM PDT
by
ken in texas
(I respect my elders but keep finding fewer of them.)
To: markomalley
Misandry by any other name
Would smell just like this cr_p.
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posted on
04/25/2013 7:18:05 PM PDT
by
TChad
(Call them Oppressives, not Progressives)
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