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Berkeley bans 'male-centric' language in city code, like 'manhole,' 'manmade'
www.washingtontimes.com ^ | Thursday, July 18, 2019 | By Jessica Chasmar

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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: berkeley; california; codebook; genderneutral; homosexualagenda; insanity; leftists; lgbt; localnews; pc; rigelrobinson; transgender
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To: colorado tanker

To be replaced with the term “Maintenance Hole”.

Confusing when some one refers to a hooker.


21 posted on 07/18/2019 10:58:09 AM PDT by gdzla (Tyrannis Seditio, Obsequium Deo)
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To: KC Burke

“So in an effort to have this perfect, Councilman will now be substituted with Council-idiot.”

Excellent. Best post on the thread.


22 posted on 07/18/2019 10:58:54 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: luvbach1

Mankind means human beings, including women and children. No need to debase the English language by slavish adherence to PC-based corruptions to it.


23 posted on 07/18/2019 10:59:03 AM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Red Badger

MENopause

MENtally ill woMAN


24 posted on 07/18/2019 10:59:32 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Red Badger

How about woMAN and feMALE?


25 posted on 07/18/2019 11:00:05 AM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: AppyPappy
He-man?


26 posted on 07/18/2019 11:00:44 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Red Badger; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
That'll screw up the audiophile release of Grace Slick's old solo album.

27 posted on 07/18/2019 11:01:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger

Whoever controls the language controls thought, controls the people.
PC is very Orwellian (1984).


28 posted on 07/18/2019 11:02:09 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

It will at least keep them all busy for a while trying to think up new words to use, instead of the real ones.........................


29 posted on 07/18/2019 11:02:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.............................😃)
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To: Red Badger

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.


30 posted on 07/18/2019 11:02:17 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Two Kids' Dad

As is “hu-man”


31 posted on 07/18/2019 11:02:47 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: SkyDancer

Yes, they are fascinated by little things............


32 posted on 07/18/2019 11:03:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.............................😃)
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To: gubamyster
Womanhole?

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.

33 posted on 07/18/2019 11:06:37 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Red Badger

Changing words doesn’t change reality.


34 posted on 07/18/2019 11:07:18 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Red Badger

Does this stupid edict also eliminate “man-centric” words with a NEGATIVE connotation — like gunman, manhunt, manslaughter, etc.?


35 posted on 07/18/2019 11:08:04 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: I want the USA back

It does in their liberal bubble world...................


36 posted on 07/18/2019 11:08:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.............................😃)
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To: SkyDancer

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


37 posted on 07/18/2019 11:09:11 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is cast as the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: Alberta's Child

Supposedly so.

They aren’t called ‘Berzerkely’ for nothing..............


38 posted on 07/18/2019 11:09:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.............................😃)
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To: Red Badger

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]


39 posted on 07/18/2019 11:10:11 AM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: Red Badger
ALL LIB losers are lunatics...ALL. Sheesh! What nitwittery!!!
40 posted on 07/18/2019 11:11:02 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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