🐱 California city bans gender-specific words from city code

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"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.
 
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It's so fucking great to speak a language that never used gendered pronouns. Sadly shit like "fireman" does exist here as well (sad in the sense that idiots get ammo to bitch about it), and a bunch of tumblrinas proclaim that they are offended on behalf of nonexistent firewomen.

Now I know people start taking sentences like that weirdly personally, so I'll just do a quick rundown on cold, hard statistics: According to official channels in this country, there are a total of ten women who have finished the emergency services education, and the first of those got her degree in 1995. Between 2013 and 2017 a total of 33 women applied, and only 4 were accepted. Of the 33 women who applied, 19 passed the physical exam. It just wasn't enough to become a fireman.

24 years, ten female firemen. This shit is enough of a reason for some people to change a word that nobody, least of which the proud women working this dangerous profession, has a problem with.

I wonder if the female firefighters in the US (which are apparently around 7% according to some CNN article) have ever given their opinion on how much of a shit they give about what term is used? Though I can't imagine a single person giving a shit about "manhole" being changed since there's no fucking way anyone but a man is voluntarily doing sewage work.
 
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