Berkeley bans gender-specific words in code

[Bithabus]

https://www.omaha.com/news/nation/n...cle_945bcee4-9987-501b-9082-60ee53806fa1.html

"The sponsor of the ordinance is councilman Rigel Robinson, a 23-year-old recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. He says his time in college expanded his awareness of gender issues."

 

[Bithabus]

 

[GoPappy]

Well, now we can sleep well knowing that the city’s most important problems are being addressed.

How about cleaning up all the poop and needles on the sidewalks and streets next.

 

[Army 1911]

Well, now we can sleep well knowing that the city’s most important problems are being addressed.

How about cleaning up all the poop and needles on the sidewalks and streets next.

Naw they don't have the manpower to do that.

 

[AustinN4]

Naw they don't have the manpower to do that.

Ha!

 

[Dawico]

Soon people won't even be able to communicate.

 

[Army 1911]

What always gets me is the phrase "person or persons unknown."

The plural of person is people not persons. At least it was when I learned standard English.

 

[AustinN4]

I wonder when we will start having genderless names for our pets?
No more prince vs princess!

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I wonder when we will start having genderless names for our pets?

You mean you don't?!

 

[Army 1911]

If your pet is neutered any name you give it is basically gender neutral.

 

[easy rider]

Does anyone know what the penalty is for using a banned word in Berkeley?

 

[toddnjoyce]

Does anyone know what the penalty is for using a banned word in Berkeley?

Life in Berkeley is punishment enough.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

...then there people like me who couldn't possibly give a shit about tying ourselves into verbal pc knots no matter how p.o.'d off it makes the pc poh-lice.

Deplorables Matter!

 

[dennisz]

This is just the tip of the iceberg, they also just banned putting natural gas pipelines in any new construction, guess they don’t fully understand how a large portion of electricity is generated, natural gas. There is no hope for that state.

 

[MTA]

As they say in 1984, this doubleplusgood

 

[BRD@66]

I just can't believe something like this could happen in CA.
Especially in a conservative enclave like Berkeley.

 

[Coiled]

...then there people like me who couldn't possibly give a shit about tying ourselves into verbal pc knots no matter how p.o.'d off it makes the pc poh-lice.

Deplorables Matter!

+ 100

 

[Coiled]

So no gendered words in the City code eh? Now purchasing can't buy male/female plumbing/electrical supplies for the maintenance dept. That place is gonna smell like a workpersons stanky ass at the end of summer day before too long.

Well done cisgendered Rigel. Bathe in it!

 

[Charlie]

Sigh!
WTF is wrong with those "persons"?

 

[Big Dipper]

Yeah, really helpful for communicating.

Me: Go ask my sibling.
Thee: OK, which one?
Me: The one with the person boobs.
Thee: OK, which one ...
Etc.