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

Berkeley...Oakland, they're all one big ghetto. Bring on the bums/homeless, etc., And let them shiit on the sidewalk.

Feminists be crazy wrote:

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.

What about mynstruation and mynopause?

They’re not banning the words, they are updating they’re municipal code’s language.

So are we going to have to rename the eMANcipation proclamation now?

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Welcome to liberal America, folks! The title of the article says it all.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/berkeley-bans-gendered-words-manhole-195405363.html

This has nothing to with "Liberal America". This was a decision made by a small group of people or maybe even just one person.

I'm liberal and also think what they decided is meaningless and stupid.

Feminists be crazy wrote:

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.

And for "history" to become "herstory."

Just for the record, you can't simultaneously label Berkeley, California, which is spelled with three e's, liberal and also call people like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton liberal. Berkeley's politics tend a lot closer to the socialist and Green Party than to liberals with visions of free markets and private sector action.

Womendacious?

In another warped Berkeley CA move, the city just banned the use of natural gas. Warpered because most electricity comes from fossil fuels of which natural gas has been gaining larger share over coal due to its cost advantages and reduced carbon impact. I guess California just needs to dam up more rivers and impact the ecology along the way. Opps, no more rivers to dam and most are running dry. More solar generated electricity then - thanks for that mandated cost.

Good luck restaurant owners and home owners who have gas appliances and/or heating. Your freedoms are being taken away by loonies. At the stroke of the loonies pens they just upped the cost of your living on top of the ridiculous costs to live in California born by an ever shrinking populous that pays taxes.

I predict California will override NY as the number one out-migration state in the USA this year. The people leaving are those with financial means. California is bitting off the hand that feeds it and it is not just in Berkeley or San Francisco, or LA. So many cities in California are governed by lunatics with agendas and they are not working for the voters.

Wake up folks, this type of politician is pushing through their radical agendas at the cost of those that voted them in.

I'm glad the morons in Berkely are focusing their efforts here than in areas where they can do real damage.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Welcome to liberal America, folks! The title of the article says it all.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/berkeley-bans-gendered-words-manhole-195405363.html

This has nothing to with "Liberal America". This was a decision made by a small group of people or maybe even just one person.

I'm liberal and also think what they decided is meaningless and stupid.

I bet its a sactuary city and the city council has voted in opposition to the use of nuclear weapons in a UN resolution and other nonsense while thousands are living in cardboard boxes under the freeway just down the street. Priorities, people.

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?

On a somewhat related note:

In my understanding, manpower and people power mean different things. People power is the ability of a group to change things through their numbers carrying greater weight. Manpower is about muscle to physically move something. Both can be women or men.

What about the Manpower company that helps people find jobs?