Mrs. Layoutshooter heard about this STUPID LAW on the 60's on 6 channel on XM radio this morning. Where callers were having a WONDERFUL time making fun of it, not that it is hard to make fun of. They were "Renaming" '60's songs. Like: "Person Godiva" or "Soldier Person" etc etc.
Is this REALLY what government should be doing? REALLY?
A 475 page bill on changing "penmenship" to handwriting? These people are NUTS!
[h=1]WASHINGTON STATE SCRUBS WORDS LIKE ‘PENMANSHIP’ & ‘POLICEMAN’ FROM OLD LAWS TO BE MORE GENDER-NEUTRAL[/h]
Washington State Governor Jay Inslee (D) signed a bill into law Monday that concludes a six-year effort to make state legislation more gender-neutral.
A bill passed in 1983 already mandates that new laws not use apparently offensive words like “fireman” (now “firefighter”) or “policeman” (now “police officer”), but the new law mandates that workers revise old laws dating back to 1854, according to the Seattle Times.
“There’s no good reason for keeping our legal terms anachronistic and with words that do not respect our current contemporary times,” Kohl-Welles, the 475-page bill’s sponsor, told to Reuters.
Some of the other words that have been replaced include “penmanship” (changed to “handwriting”), “freshman” (changed to “first-year student”), and “watchmen” (changed to “security guards”).
Reuters continues:
Washington State Scrubs Words Like ?Penmanship? & ?Policeman? From Old Laws to Be More Gender-Neutral | TheBlaze.com
Is this REALLY what government should be doing? REALLY?
A 475 page bill on changing "penmenship" to handwriting? These people are NUTS! [h=1]WASHINGTON STATE SCRUBS WORDS LIKE ‘PENMANSHIP’ & ‘POLICEMAN’ FROM OLD LAWS TO BE MORE GENDER-NEUTRAL[/h]
Washington State Governor Jay Inslee (D) signed a bill into law Monday that concludes a six-year effort to make state legislation more gender-neutral.
A bill passed in 1983 already mandates that new laws not use apparently offensive words like “fireman” (now “firefighter”) or “policeman” (now “police officer”), but the new law mandates that workers revise old laws dating back to 1854, according to the Seattle Times.
“There’s no good reason for keeping our legal terms anachronistic and with words that do not respect our current contemporary times,” Kohl-Welles, the 475-page bill’s sponsor, told to Reuters.
Some of the other words that have been replaced include “penmanship” (changed to “handwriting”), “freshman” (changed to “first-year student”), and “watchmen” (changed to “security guards”).
Reuters continues:
Several words, however, aren’t easy to replace, said Kyle Thiessen, the state’s code reviser, who heads up the 40-staff Washington Code Reviser’s Office agency.
The state likely won’t change the words “airmen” and “seaman,” for example, because of objections by the state’s Washington Military Department, he said
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Civil engineering terms such as “man hole” and “man lock,” also will not be changed because no common-sense substitutes could easily be found, Thiessen said.
Nearly 3,500 Washington state code sections, out of a total of about 40,000 have been tediously scrubbed of gender bias, although most involve adding pronouns “she” and “her” to augment the existing “he” and “his,” Thiessen said.
The bill passed the Democrat-controlled state House 70-22 on April 9 and unanimously cleared the state Senate on February 8 before being signed by Democratic Governor Jay Inslee. [Emphasis added]
The state likely won’t change the words “airmen” and “seaman,” for example, because of objections by the state’s Washington Military Department, he said
.
Civil engineering terms such as “man hole” and “man lock,” also will not be changed because no common-sense substitutes could easily be found, Thiessen said.
Nearly 3,500 Washington state code sections, out of a total of about 40,000 have been tediously scrubbed of gender bias, although most involve adding pronouns “she” and “her” to augment the existing “he” and “his,” Thiessen said.
The bill passed the Democrat-controlled state House 70-22 on April 9 and unanimously cleared the state Senate on February 8 before being signed by Democratic Governor Jay Inslee. [Emphasis added]
Washington State Scrubs Words Like ?Penmanship? & ?Policeman? From Old Laws to Be More Gender-Neutral | TheBlaze.com
