🐱 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.

 

[JULAY]

"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!"

Why don't you tell him that yourself?

(510) 981-7170

RRobinson@CityofBerkeley.info

 

[queue-anon]

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.

I don't know if the city has the power to overrule state and federal law in this instance which, as far as I know, still allows for "gender" segregation in certain spaces. Although state law would already require the Greek system to be de facto gender neutral since, under California law, anyone can identify their way into the opposite sex's spaces. Thanks to the Obama administration, various exceptional states, and the social media peanut gallery, all sororities are effectively required to accept trannies.

 

[Overcast]

I’m so glad that I left.

But I feel sad for the friends I had there that still live there.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

I don't know if the city has the power to overrule state and federal law in this instance which, as far as I know, still allows for "gender" segregation in certain spaces. Although state law would already require the Greek system to be de facto gender neutral since, under California law, anyone can identify their way into the opposite sex's spaces. Thanks to the Obama administration, various exceptional states, and the social media peanut gallery, all sororities are effectively required to accept trannies.

Don't you know?
California does whatever the fuck it wants, federal law be damned.

 

[kcbbq]

Man/men is gender neutral, learn how English works California.

Just because we leave off the prefix for the masculine doesn't change that fact and shouldn't require writing a novel to refer to a frat.

 

[TheBlackVolga]

I think California is more insane than Florida.

I'm doing my hardest to figure out how to feed Californians to Florida methgators.

Plus, they need to stop using the word "human" as it contains the word "man". They'd better start referring to "hupeople rights" or I'm gonna be even madder on the Internet.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

Well, I'm not bad...

Sadly Vegas is also on the San Andreas fault else I'd say you could just move here.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Do you think Orwell thought of this when he created Newspeak?

 

[Coldgrip]

Another win for progressiveness and another sad, caustic loss for actual women.

Eh, it's the future they wanted, they deserve it.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Eh, it's the future they wanted, they deserve it.

I'm sure they all didn't want it - there is a sad irony even for the women who are super progressive and would want something like this being crushed under the weight of a movement they signed on for.

 

[frozenrunner]

Do you think Orwell thought of this when he created Newspeak?

Well, he did envision the Junior Anti-Sex League. And trannies don't get laid.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

California, huh? What about Spanish, which is heavily ("binary") gendered and where all nouns are either masculine or feminine?

 

[kcbbq]

I'm doing my hardest to figure out how to feed Californians to Florida methgators.

Plus, they need to stop using the word "human" as it contains the word "man". They'd better start referring to "hupeople rights" or I'm gonna be even madder on the Internet.

"Hu" as a prefix originally meant earth, and as it evolved, human (it is a strange one...). It's degrading and discriminatory towards all those psychologists scientology claim are grown on Mars and Venus and then dumped into Earth's oceans.

 

[Coldgrip]

California, huh? What about Spanish, which is heavily ("binary") gendered and where all nouns are either masculine or feminine?

"Those savages should just learn to accept our superior and enlightened ways, after all we're doing it for their own good."

-Some liberal, soft-racist, fart-huffing faggot.​

 

[FierceBrosnan]

"Those savages should just learn to accept our superior and enlightened ways, after all we're doing it for their own good."

-Some liberal, soft-racist, fart-huffing faggot.​

I would hope my fellow Burrito Americans would band together and beat the everloving shit out of the first milquetoast soyboy that dares utter "Latinx".

 

[Pontiff Sulyvahn]

I’m so glad that I left.

But I feel sad for the friends I had there that still live there.

Same. Fuck that shithole. I praise every earthquake, fire and hope God rains destruction and death upon that entire hellhole.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

I would hope my fellow Burrito Americans would band together and beat the everloving shit out of the first milquetoast soyboy that dares utter "Latinx".

Just woke Anglofags use that, no Spanish-speaking person talks this way.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Just woke Anglofags use that, no Spanish-speaking person talks this way.

I wish that were true, but did you see the democratic primaries?

 

[Lemmingwise]

Reminds me of when the Dutch government changed the name of the ministry of "Economic Business" to "Economic Business, Farming and Innovation". That name change ended up costing 1.5 million euros. And then two years later they changed it back for about the same price. And now they're changing to "Economic Business and Climate".

But best of all was the change of the ministry of Safety and Justice to the ministry of Justice and Safety. Roughly the same price again.

Color me skeptical that it would only cost 800$, even for a small city such as Berkeley.

 

[Amber the Hedgehog]

Some of these are fine enough, like police officers and firefighters, but others not so much. Like why is wrong with manhole and why was it replaced with word that doesn’t mean the same? There many types holes for maintenance and not all of them are manholes. Cheese. Maybe this just my none native English but hows ‘heirs’ gendered? Also if somebody used collegiate greek system residence to me, I would have absolutely no idea what they were talking about. Seriously many of these new terms are unreasonable as they will fail communicate people outside of gender woke folks. People working for city are going to love the extras explaining that their very confused clients are going to need, assuming that the employees understand this crap themselves.