Berkeley Bans Word ‘Manhole,’ Will Now Be Called ‘Maintenance Holes’
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Via SF Gate :
At a Tuesday night city council meeting, Berkeley became the first city in America to ban the use of natural gas piping in new construction. But that was not the only utility-related issue they saw fit to attend to. No, there was another matter on deck: Eliminating the gendered connotations of words like “manhole” in the city municipal code.
No longer will the streets of fair Berkeley be dotted with manholes, nary a womanhole or nonbinaryhole in sight. With Tuesday night’s vote, they have all been transmuted into “maintenance holes,” that highest, hardest glass manhole-cover finally shattered.
The item, originally on the council agenda for March 12, was sponsored by councilmembers Rigel Robinson, Cheryl Davila, Ben Bartlett and Lori Droste, reports Berkeleyside. The ordinance eliminates all gendered pronouns from the city code, replacing “she” and “he” with “they.”
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What a bunch of unmitigated horse manure! But what else could be expected from the bastion of progressive leftist liberal insanity that is Berkley?
Manhattan is to be renamed Personhattan. The word "manufacture" from now on is "humanfacture". "Manitoulan Island" must now be called "Inclusivetoulan Island". I could go on all day with this ignorant idiocy.
LOL, well there was one name change I agreed with.
Back when I returned to the world in the later 70s, when you came down route 90 passing by Ocean Pines on your way to Ocean City Maryland at the time you crossed a bridge across a "bay" called Assawoman bay. True story. There I am driving some pretty girl in my F250 they see that sign and instantly "WTF is this?" pops up.
They eventually changed the name of that bay. Thank goodness.
Kathleen may remember this...?
Well, that name could be considered insulting so IMO nothing wrong with changing it. My examples were based on overzealous gender identification madness - an example of the idiocy that is starting to move from sublime to ridiculous.
I understand and I agree.
All you butt hurt "conservatives". Dont be afraid, it will be over one day. People will say 'maintenance hole' and even you wont bat an eye.
There is nothing 'wrong' with gender neutral language. You just can't imagine it.
This means that you condone government and academia controlling language. How 1984 of you!
Maybe we can get a bunch of women out there to lift those covers and go work in the spaces underneath. What, no volunteers?
Considering that over the many years we have had these things, it's almost always 100% men working with them, it doesn't seem unreasonable that we have been calling them manholes.
Berkeley has become a bunch of man-iacs....haha.
Nope, this doesn't go far enough...
They should have renamed them "woman-holes"!
wait until they get to pipe threads
I'll play "that guy" for this one.
How about we start calling them "Maintenance Holes" when we see more WOMEN going down them to perform maintenance?
Is it too late to suggest the name "glory hole"?
Asking for a friend...
The person that delivers your mail will now be called a "personperson".
Bbecause "mail" is obviously sexist, as is "man").
No more "Ladies and Gentlemen" to be said at speeches - just "Hey you guys, listen up."
What will they call manna from heaven? That'll be the day China will rename its predominant language to "Persondarin"? I'm sure they can't stop laughing at Americans.
No matter how hard the moonbats try, they'll find that it's impossible for a singular pronoun (identity) to miraculously morph into a plural pronoun (identity).
Since they're hellbent on removing male references to everything, I'd like to know what their alternatives are to replace Manhattan, mantle, Manchester, manicure, manatee, Manila, management, Mandarin, mantilla, manure, and mannequin.
These people are as loony and myopic as the plastic straw loons are.
Just more pie hole politics.
THIS is the typical kind of crap that matters to moonbats.
Sad.
Yep, they are full of manure.
I dont see any evidence at the city council meeting that this was considered a big deal. It was probably very routine.
On NT and other right wing gathering places it is a big deal. Big deal.
Routine?
WTF is routine about such a freaking ASININE proposal?
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984