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California city to ban gendered language like ‘manhole’ and ‘manpower’
submitted 4 years ago by HeyImSancho from fox59.com
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[–]happysmash27 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago* (4 children)
I absolutely love gender neutrality, but the replacement words better not sound like my English teachers satire "personhole cover". Something like "utility access hole cover" works much better.
…Woah woah woah, I am reading the article, and the title is a bit misleading!
Banning is bad, therefore this sounds terrible.
The city voted Tuesday night to replace gendered terms in its municipal codes, like “manhole” and “manpower,” with gender-neutral ones like “maintenance hole” and “human effort.”
That is not banning though.
Well, I'm certainly glad they used reasonable names and not the ridiculous-sounding names from satire! In the case of "manhole" and similar, this is a nice, but largely insignificant change in the municipal code terminology, because who actually thinks of "man" when they hear "manhole" anyway? In the case of other changes, however, like gender-neutral pronouns, it makes me quite happy, as ones like that which are noticeable actually do irk me ever so slightly.
Edit: Also, this says "California city", which led me to believe this was happening in California City, but it's actually happening in Berkley.
[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (3 children)
Yeah, i actually think its a decent effort at removing gendered words. It's not a ban, its more like "Moving forward, we shouldn't use these words on these things".
[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (2 children)
What does society gain?
[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
It just helps keep things neutral. While i don't personally care, other people do. Phasing out gendered words is a big agenda for leftists and I don't care either way.
[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
I don't think it keeps things neutral.
Most languages have gender cases for almost all nouns. Are those countries changing their languages?
If not, then I suspect that there's more to this then we're being told.
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