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Berkeley bans 'male-centric' language in city code, like 'manhole,' 'manmade'
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| Thursday, July 18, 2019
| By Jessica Chasmar
Posted on 07/18/2019 10:48:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: colorado tanker
To be replaced with the term “Maintenance Hole”.
Confusing when some one refers to a hooker.
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posted on
07/18/2019 10:58:09 AM PDT
by
gdzla
(Tyrannis Seditio, Obsequium Deo)
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.
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.
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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!)
To: Red Badger
MENopause
MENtally ill woMAN
To: Red Badger
How about woMAN and feMALE?
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posted on
07/18/2019 11:00:05 AM PDT
by
bleach
(If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
To: AppyPappy
He-man?
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posted on
07/18/2019 11:00:44 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: Red Badger; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
That'll screw up the audiophile release of Grace Slick's old solo album.
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posted on
07/18/2019 11:01:45 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Red Badger
Whoever controls the language controls thought, controls the people.
PC is very Orwellian (1984).
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.........................
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posted on
07/18/2019 11:02:14 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.............................😃)
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.
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posted on
07/18/2019 11:02:17 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: Two Kids' Dad
To: SkyDancer
Yes, they are fascinated by little things............
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posted on
07/18/2019 11:03:21 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.............................😃)
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.
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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.)
To: Red Badger
Changing words doesn’t change reality.
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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.)
To: Red Badger
Does this stupid edict also eliminate “man-centric” words with a NEGATIVE connotation — like gunman, manhunt, manslaughter, etc.?
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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)
To: I want the USA back
It does in their liberal bubble world...................
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posted on
07/18/2019 11:08:21 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.............................😃)
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
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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")
To: Alberta's Child
Supposedly so.
They aren’t called ‘Berzerkely’ for nothing..............
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posted on
07/18/2019 11:09:58 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.............................😃)
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]
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posted on
07/18/2019 11:10:11 AM PDT
by
SolidRedState
(I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
To: Red Badger
ALL LIB losers are lunatics...ALL. Sheesh! What nitwittery!!!
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posted on
07/18/2019 11:11:02 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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