Manholes are gender neutral now

rireland

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2019/0719/1063973-manholes-policewomen-gender-neutral-alternatives/

No more manholes lads. Too offensive!

Where is this all going to end?

Spleerbun

"Would you like to join our collegiate Greek system residence?"

Proper pack of freaks

Allinall

What'll the cool kids say now when they're stoned?

Ahh Person ?

Utter Consternation

It took a lot of human effort to come up with that.

hetuzozaho

rireland wrote: »

Where is this all going to end?

I never understood this saying.. Maybe I'm lucky to not work in the manhole industry or related industries, but I really don't see whatever we decide to call it effecting my life in anyway at all.

peddlelies

When they lift them up to rebrand them they'll have somewhere to throw all the shíte and drug paraphernalia off the sidewalks.

jmayo

As such, common words such as "bondsman" will be replaced by the non-gendered term "bonds-person," "manhole" becomes "maintenance hole" and a "pregnant woman" will now be referred to as a "pregnant employee".

The municipal code will also replace the terms "sorority" and "fraternity" with "collegiate Greek system residence," while "manpower" will be changed to "human effort".

FFS.
The ultimate one has to be "pregnant employees".

How many fooking pregnant men has anyone ever met ?
Oh yeah a couple of people out of the entire human race of 7.5 odd billion claimed they were guys even though they didn't have a mickie, had ovaries and a baby in their wombs.

Loons, freaking loons.

The westerner world has more to worry about than this type of shyteology.

Conchir

Do you enjoy being offended OP?

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

More PC bollocks. Who’s actually offended by the term manhole, nobody, that’s who.

Bullshít.

GreeBo

Utter Consternation wrote: »

It took a lot of human effort to come up with that.

hu-person, sheesh theysh!

peddlelies

Conchir wrote: »

Do you enjoy being offended OP?

Being offended and pointing out loopy left wing idiocy aren't the same thing.

ChikiChiki

Boom_Bap

Wait til they figure out that Maintenance Hole is slang for anal.

Mr.Maroon

This is definitely one to rile up the broflakes.

rireland

Conchir wrote: »

Do you enjoy being offended OP?

Oh yeah, although I'm not as offended as someone calling a manhole a manhole!

whisky_galore

Good to see that Berkeley, with long term homelessness double the national average, is at last tackling really important issues....

Conchir

Conchir wrote:

Do you enjoy being offended OP?

People recognising that some people are so mentally retarded that now you aren't allowed use the term "pregnant woman" in certain places in case you offend someone is absolutely not the same as being offended.

It's absolutely hilarious. You are accusing someone of being easily offended about people getting offended.

Mr.Maroon wrote:

This is definitely one to rile up the broflakes.

Is a broflake the woke way of referring to someone who doesn't buy into all this bull****? And if it is, is it meant to be an insult?

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Are they making manholes gender neutral because of all the women you see working in drainage?

super_furry

Good thing you don't live in *checks notes*...... Berkeley, California.

Still, let's not stop the outrage machine.

Woodsie1

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7253545/Female-college-student-designs-chair-blocks-manspreading.html

Its all very funny at this stage.

jimgoose

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Wait til they figure out that Maintenance Hole is slang for anal.

Ooh, a Starfish Trooper, eh??

super_furry

jimgoose wrote: »

Ooh, a Starfish Trooper, eh??

Lost my heart to one of them once.

jam_mac_jam

The weirdest thing is the non use of pronouns, what are you meant to say them instead of him or her, that's just wrong.

namenotavailablE

What terms will they substitute for 'manager', 'management', 'many', 'heritage', 'history', 'mental', 'monuments', 'mention', 'gentle', 'pungent' etc.

jam_mac_jam

namenotavailabl wrote: »

What terms will they substitute for 'manager', 'management', 'many', 'heritage', 'history', 'mental', 'monuments', 'mention', 'gentle', 'pungent' etc.

I don't think any of those are in the same context. History for example is from the word for enquiry in Greek, Management comes from handle so nothing to do with men.

Tasfasdf

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

I don't think any of those are in the same context. History for example is from the word for enquiry in Greek, Management comes from handle so nothing to do with men.

Its only a matter of time before them snowflakes are offended by it.

nthclare

Feck that, it'll be like blasphemy soon to say what's touts innaprops.....

Man hole man hole, fireman, police man, binmam, man man man....

Ginger bread man, fisherman, Starman, man of the house...

Pronoun's what a load of sh one tea...

Anybody who subscribe to this bullsh one T should have a stake of Holly up their own hole boiled with their own snowflakes and give the rest of the knobs a drink of it and cop on...

Pronoun's do not exist and this Dojo "does it"

Bunch of liberals at it again setanta wept.....

jam_mac_jam

Tasfasdf wrote: »

Its only a matter of time before them snowflakes are offended by it.

I don't think anyone is offended by fireman or man hole, which makes this even stupider.

Rodin

I have never see a firewoman so for me it shall remain 'fireman'.

And men do not get pregnant, so I can't fathom who might be offended by the term 'pregnant woman' though it is a tautology.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Rodin wrote: »

I have never see a firewoman so for me it shall remain 'fireman'.

And men do not get pregnant, so I can't fathom who might be offended by the term 'pregnant woman' though it is a tautology.

Woah, you're not up to speed on the new rules... men can get pregnant now and if you say otherwise you're wrong. Don't even think about quoting science because hurt feelings matter more than science now.

Sorry.

Lux23

Why did they give them gendered terms in the first place?

BarryD2

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Are they making manholes gender neutral because of all the women you see working in drainage?

Yeah, when we see the women queuing up to go down the manholes and clear the sh*t in the drains, then we'll change the name.

Rodin

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Woah, you're not up to speed on the new rules... men can get pregnant now and if you say otherwise you're wrong. Don't even think about quoting science because hurt feelings matter more than science now.

Sorry.

Just wait until women are getting prostate cancer and men ovarian cancer..... f*king nonsense.

The actual time/energy devoted to transgenderism is completely at odds with its prevalence. If equivalent prevalence-related time, energy and money was devoted to disability rights then we'd all be a lot better off.

JohnMc1

rireland wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2019/0719/1063973-manholes-policewomen-gender-neutral-alternatives/

No more manholes lads. Too offensive!

Where is this all going to end?

When people with sense finally tell these idiots to **** off.

This is why people are abandoning the Left. The need to be outraged and "offended" by damn near anything and everything. For God's sake they're looking at children's cartoons for something to be outraged by.

Its the Boy who cried wolf situation. By the time they'll find something to be genuinely outraged about people will just ignore them.

bloodless_coup

Lux23 wrote: »

Why did they give them gendered terms in the first place?

Because it's a hole in the ground in which a man goes. Women don't work these kinds of jobs, and they certainly didn't in the era the term was coined.

Lux23

doylefe wrote: »

Because it's a hole in the ground in which a man goes. Women don't work these kinds of jobs, and they certainly didn't in the era the term was coined.

But why couldn't they call it a drainhole or something, why does everything have to belong to men?

jam_mac_jam

Lux23 wrote: »

Why did they give them gendered terms in the first place?

When the word was first used women didn't do the jobs. Also man can mean human as well as man. So mankind doesn't really mean just men it means people.

nthclare

Lux23 wrote: »

Why did they give them gendered terms in the first place?

Because back in those days people were less sensitive about theses thing's and it didn't bother them...

Mental illness I think contributes to people who prefer pronoun's....

They feel special.

The latest rubbish I heard lately is UL making it an option for the LGBT community to stay in their own safe space on the campus.

Therefore undermining the security of UL, the LGBT community being unable to look after themselves and once again enabling the LGBT community to feel different.

After all the progress we have achieved in helping the LGBT community to be normalised some numptys decide to go ahead and ostricise them again....

What an own goal....

hetuzozaho

Lux23 wrote: »

But why couldn't they call it a drainhole or something, why does everything have to belong to men?

I reckon cause its not for drainage.. Its a hole for a man to go through to get under the ground to do something

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

BarryD2 wrote: »

Yeah, when we see the women queuing up to go down the manholes and clear the sh*t in the drains, then we'll change the name.

If I owned a drainage company I’d employ all women because you only have to pay them 70% of what men make.

nthclare

nthclare wrote: »

Ginger bread man

Probably not PC to call him Ginger either these days. Not sure where that leaves the rhyme:

Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I am the Biscuit of indeterminate gender and colour! Don't label me dammit!"

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Lux23 wrote: »

But why couldn't they call it a drainhole or something, why does everything have to belong to men?

This’ll blow your mind.

Wo[men]

You’re welcome.

rireland

Let's get a list of things that will eventually be renamed:

Deadmans switch
Hangman

tigerboon

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

When the word was first used women didn't do the jobs. Also man can mean human as well as man. So mankind doesn't really mean just men it means people.

Could call them a "mankind" hole. Would devalue Neil Armstrong's quote a bit but other than that.... problem solved.;)

Boom_Bap

tigerboon wrote: »

Could call them a "mankind" hole. Would devalue Neil Armstrong's quote a bit but other than that.... problem solved.;)

or kind lady holes

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Probably not PC to call him Ginger either these days. Not sure where that leaves the rhyme:

Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I am the Biscuit of indeterminate gender and colour! Don't label me dammit!"

That's actually able-ist and speed shaming.

NSAman

Why not just call it a Personhole?

As In: "Jacinta had a non-binary non-specific plumber in to look at her personhole"..... makes sense huh?

mcmoustache

There have been articles and comedy skits like this for at least 30 years. I remember one when I was a kid about woman and other such terms being replaced with things like woperson. Back then it was only around the corner and going to be forced upon us all.

For some reason, it never actually happened. Not that there aren't some gobshítes thinking that such things are a good idea, the world is full of gobshítes after all, but they haven't had much success in convincing the wider world of the benefits of such nonsense.

is_that_so

How is a personal pronoun having been replaced by a noun , now a gender neutral pronoun?

BloodBath

JohnMc1 wrote: »

When people with sense finally tell these idiots to **** off.

This is why people are abandoning the Left. The need to be outraged and "offended" by damn near anything and everything. For God's sake they're looking at children's cartoons for something to be outraged by.

Its the Boy who cried wolf situation. By the time they'll find something to be genuinely outraged about people will just ignore them.

Woah woah woah, don't you mean the person who cried wolf?

jimgoose

Deleted User wrote: »

Probably not PC to call him Ginger either these days. Not sure where that leaves the rhyme:

Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I am the Biscuit of indeterminate gender and colour! Don't label me dammit!"

He'd better be gluten-free as well, or there will be BIG trouble!!