🐱 California city bans gender-specific words from city code

"Manholes" to "Maintenance Holes": California city bans gender-specific words from city code

Berkeley City Council has unanimously voted to eliminate gender-specific words from its municipal code.

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Berkeley City Council has unanimously voted to eliminate gender-specific words from its municipal code.
The vote was on Tuesday and the idea was introduced by 23-year-old city council member Rigel Robinson.



"Language has power. The words we use are important," Robinson said. "It's not only timely, but necessary to make sure that our laws really speak for everyone."
Some of the changes include the word, "manhole" that will now be "maintenance hole."
A bondsman will become a "bondsperson." And fireman officially becomes firefighter.
The list goes on with other examples, including craftsmen, which becomes artisans.
Heirs is changed to beneficiaries. Manpower will now be "human effort" and pregnant woman is now pregnant employee.%INLINE%
We found a mix of reactions to these changes.
Supporters say the language tweaks make Berkeley more inclusive.
"If it makes the city happy I guess they can go ahead. They can change it to maintenance hole. I'm sure it wouldn't hurt anybody," said Erin Davis of Berkley.
"It sounds like they want to include everybody, including trans, the LGBTQ community that gets left out.
But not everyone was on the same page.
"No. Uh...I think it would remain the same. Why change it?" said Athena Addison of Berkeley.
"They come up with these cockamamie things all the time," said one unidentified older resident.
And at one Berkeley fraternity, Andrew Haits, a UC student had this reaction: "Come on. Enough is enough," he snickered. "I think they've gone too far. The reason why they're gender separated is because they are gender separated. Fraternities are male and sororities are female."
He's referring to fraternities and sororities, which will now be referred to as "collegiate Greek system residencies."
Berkeley's municipal code uses mostly male pronouns, such as "he", but the new code will switch from he and she to "they" when referring to individuals.
All forms generated by the city of Berkeley will soon have a space for people filling it out to designate which pronoun they prefer.
City officials said the cost of the changes is $600.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

All in favor of kicking California out of the United states raise your hand

Just let me move out first, please.

We're not all bad, I swear!

 

[FH 721]

Goddamn it Doctor wash your dick was right.

 

[JambledUpWords]

Last I checked, women are the only ones getting pregnant. In fact, giving birth and being pregnant are some of the most womanly things a person can do. Trying to appeal to the Rainbow Coalition will never work. Nothing is ever good enough.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

"Hey boss, I gotta take pregnancy leave." - a 250 pound man wanting a vacation.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

All in favor of kicking California out of the United states raise your hand

When will California just break off and sink into the ocean?

Honestly if the earthquakes are anything to go by the earth itself is trying it's hardest to sink the whole state. I'd prefer the whole city ( or at the very least the university) get swallowed by a massive sinkhole.

 

[Coach Kreeton Of All That]

The Real Sonichu wasn't just a Farms webcomic. It was a cryptic prophetic warning of the creation of Robee Sonichus that will flood and infest California. They will assault jerk-ops and scream "oppresshun!" once the beat hits back.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

So, since Californians can't write off their state taxes anymore, what are the odds of a huge reckoning for CA politicians when their people get the bill for all this stupid shit?

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

You guys gendered entities want the whole list? Oh c'mon, you know you want the whole list:

 

[BoingBoingBoi]

"I think they've gone too far. The reason why they're gender separated is because they are gender separated. Fraternities are male and sororities are female."
He's referring to fraternities and sororities, which will now be referred to as "collegiate Greek system residencies."

i don't get this. are all frats and sororities gonna be gender neutral now? who in the fuck wants that? i'm no fan of the frat/sorority culture generally speaking, but i recognize the desire and even utility in college of having social groups free from members of the opposite sex. it just floors me that radical leftists are so willing to destroy women-only (and men-only) spaces and organizations because of troony loons that make up less than 1% of the population. come on.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

"Collegiate Greek system residence"

I'm not even mad, that's so fucking awkward it's hilarious

 

[Otterly]

Firefighters can be men or women, so that’s fine. A male firefighter being called a fireman also fine.
Police officers, men or women so that’s fine.

Everyone who has ever been pregnant is a woman.

One of these things is not like the other.

 

[TheAmazingZander]

You guys gendered entities want the whole list? Oh c'mon, you know you want the whole list:
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WTF? You can't even refer to brothers and sisters? Also "Collegiate Greek system residence" really rolls off the tongue.

I want to eject myself from the humanperson race.

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

WTF? You can't even refer to brothers and sisters? Also "Collegiate Greek system residence" really rolls off the tongue.

I want to eject myself from the humanperson race.

I don't even need to make jokes anymore - I just need to look at the news.

It's a beautiful time to be alive.

 

[Ambidextype]

I think California is more insane than Florida. Every Sane people should wish for Cali to secede. Cali alone probably contributes to US having bad reputations.

 

[Lurkio]

You guys gendered entities want the whole list? Oh c'mon, you know you want the whole list:
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People who wonder why we have the electoral college; this is why. Imagine if these "people" had enough sway that they could almost single-handedly decide the course of the US election.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

Jesus thats two exceptional laws in berkely in one day. How long until they formally legalize designated shitting streets?

 

[Slappy McGherkin]

"Language has power. The words we use are important," Robinson said. "

You know what? You're absolutely right, Rigel. So here's my words to you -- "Fuck off and die, dweeb!"

 

[8777BB5]

My question is what do they call a locomotive fireman? They don't fight fires so you can't call the person a fire fighter, they don't drive a locomotive so you can't call them an operator/engineer and you can't do what the British do and call them a Secondman because it's got the word man in there.

 

[TheAmazingZander]

My question is what do they call a locomotive fireman? They don't fight fires so you can't call the person a fire fighter, they don't drive a locomotive so you can't call them an operator/engineer and you can't do what the British do and call them a Secondman because it's got the word man in there.

Stoker is the more gender neutral term, but I'm sure they'd come up with "person of stoking" or something.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Just let me move out first, please.

We're not all bad, I swear!

Well, I'm not bad...