Berkely, CA Bans Use of Gendered Words Like "Manhole" and "Manpower"

hahahaohnonono wrote:

Harambe wrote:

People love to obsess about a 125k population city 1000s of miles from them.

Living rent free in your head - although its not as prime as bay area real estate.

Berkeley has produced something like a dozen Nobel Prizes so they must be doing something right.

Imagine having this small of a brain that you conflate the university's success with the city itself.

If it really was a terrible place then the university would not be as successful.

You forgot about the national lab there as well.

You really should leave these threads to people who remember things past 5th grade history and civics.

Harambe wrote:

People love to obsess about a 125k population city 1000s of miles from them.

Living rent free in your head - although its not as prime as bay area real estate.

Berkeley has produced something like a dozen Nobel Prizes so they must be doing something right.

Obama won a Nobel Prize ONLY for being elected President so I would definitely say that judging a town based off of Nobel Prize count is really solid logic! I like that you used a term made famous by one of the most famous Conservatives of all time as part of your diss as well Harambe.

English professer wrote:

I guess I just don't understand why this offends you.

Berkley, CA is editing there municipal code. Why do you care?

English professor who doesn’t know how to use their/there correctly....HS failure more like it....

What is the Berkeleyed replacement for the word huMAN?

another perspective wrote:

Harambe wrote:

People love to obsess about a 125k population city 1000s of miles from them.

Living rent free in your head - although its not as prime as bay area real estate.

Berkeley has produced something like a dozen Nobel Prizes so they must be doing something right.

Obama won a Nobel Prize ONLY for being elected President so I would definitely say that judging a town based off of Nobel Prize count is really solid logic! I like that you used a term made famous by one of the most famous Conservatives of all time as part of your diss as well Harambe.

Nobel Peace Prize is distinctly less technical than the other original awarded fields. Berkeley is known for its prizes in the hard sciences.

Please stop making it so easy for me. You guys gotta have better arguments than this, right?

English professer wrote:

I guess I just don't understand why this offends you.

Berkley, CA is editing there municipal code. Why do you care?

It doesn’t offend me, it irritates me. Especially because the root word “man” doesn’t mean human male in those contexts it refers to all humans, ie “mankind”.

Flounder wrote:

What is the Berkeleyed replacement for the word huMAN?

Seen something once where feminist were pushing for the new spelling of women to be womyn.

Free_the_thigh wrote:

English professer wrote:

I guess I just don't understand why this offends you.

Berkley, CA is editing there municipal code. Why do you care?

It doesn’t offend me, it irritates me. Especially because the root word “man” doesn’t mean human male in those contexts it refers to all humans, ie “mankind”.

Why let something like this bother you? To give in to emotions like this is evidence of weak mind. Let alone the need to complain on the internet about it.

Berkeley CA is named after an Irishman named George Berkeley.

What will it’s political class change the name to? Wonder if people living there feel somewhat manipulated?

I live in Manhattan NY. It must be very difficult for these PC politicians to manage things.

Don’t know about you but I always strived to become upper management but managerial jobs are far and few between in the manufacturing sector. Watched my daughter play soccer the other day, 10 players maneuvering for the ball and yelling “man on”! Some of the players showed really bad manners and tried to manipulate the referee by faking fouls. My wife just left to see her manicurist before we leave for our mandatory annual trip to Manistigue MI to see her relatives. She demands that of me each year. There is a great Italian restaurant there that serves a wonderful manicotti.

This story has many bizarre elements...that government is going to waste time and money on this.

Luv2Run wrote:

This story has many bizarre elements...that government is going to waste time and money on this.

So now they've got to replace all their "manhole" covers and "Men Working" road warning signs?

Money well spent.

Luv2Run wrote:

This story has many bizarre elements...that government is going to waste time and money on this.

The time it takes is as long as it takes to sign a piece of paper, "the estimated cost for implementing the new ordinance is $600, the city said."

To soend $600 and 1 minute of time to make a large section of your population happy is a bargain. You don't have to agree with it or understand it. You also don't have to live there.

Mind your own fucking business.

No more she-sheds?

Slumdog wrote:

I am totally ok with calling them womanholes.

And I’d like to see equal numbers of women going down there to clean and repair. They can make up for what the did to men by creating a society where males did the most dangerous and sickening work causing them to have Lower life expectancies.

So for the next thousand years they are womanholes.

Any evidence of this cause and effect relationship that you claim?

Didn't think so.

Harambe wrote:

another perspective wrote:

Obama won a Nobel Prize ONLY for being elected President so I would definitely say that judging a town based off of Nobel Prize count is really solid logic! I like that you used a term made famous by one of the most famous Conservatives of all time as part of your diss as well Harambe.

Nobel Peace Prize is distinctly less technical than the other original awarded fields. Berkeley is known for its prizes in the hard sciences.

Please stop making it so easy for me. You guys gotta have better arguments than this, right?

UC Berkeley faculty members have won 22 Nobel prizes. Almost all of them in physics, chemistry and economics. One in literature.

Udumbshit.... wrote:

English professer wrote:

I guess I just don't understand why this offends you.

Berkley, CA is editing there municipal code. Why do you care?

English professor who doesn’t know how to use their/there correctly....HS failure more like it....

It's funny because you didn't even say anything about my username being "professer"...almost as if it was a demonstration about how people on the internet get mad about something and try to show how smart they are but just continue to look dum. Or how bout that it's actually spelled Berkeley. Irregardless...ya got me good!

Harambe wrote:

hahahaohnonono wrote:

Imagine having this small of a brain that you conflate the university's success with the city itself.

If it really was a terrible place then the university would not be as successful.

You forgot about the national lab there as well.

You really should leave these threads to people who remember things past 5th grade history and civics.

Isn’t this article about the decisions made by the people in charge of the city of Berkeley? Why are we talking about the university in particular? Did they have a direct hand in this decision? If so, source please. Just a lot of weird posturing and lame attempts at insults in this thread.

P.S. You got really assmad lol

Is woman banned?

That's got a man in it!

Harambe wrote:

Gotta change the subject when you get c0ckslapped I see.

PS why are you bragging about being from Los Gatos

Just chiming in. You keep trying to derail the thread to steer it about the university for some reason. Stay mad, sad, and dare I say....upset?