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BERKELEY, Calif. — Soon, there will be no more manholes in the city of Berkeley, California. There will also be no chairmen, no manpower, no policemen or policewomen.
The city voted Tuesday night to replace gendered terms in its municipal codes, like “manhole” and “manpower,” with gender-neutral ones like “maintenance hole” and “human effort.”
The revised city documents also will replace instances of gendered pronouns, such as “he” and “she” with “they,” according to the ordinance.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. And we need to find a way to rename man-hole covers."
-Thomas Jefferson
originally posted by: DBCowboy
We should never make light of a serious issue that has plagued our nation for centuries.
"Man-hole covers hurt my feelings."
-Abraham Lincoln
Now we know why there was a civil war. Perhaps, because of Berkley, we can finally enjoy a peace that has eluded our great nation.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, like get rid of manhole covers, not because they are easy, but because feelz". - John F. Kennedy