Is the 'Gender-Neutral Bill' Fair Game?
tentmaster
2013/02/06 22:00:00
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A new bill, already passing the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee, could neutralize the way men and women of Washington State describe certain words and phrases. Words like 'freshman', 'dairyman', and even 'penmanship' might have to be changed to play a more gender-neutral role.
Even though Florida and Minnesota have already revised their laws, opposers of the bill are saying those phrases are impartial and states should concentrate on more important matters, like economy and education. What do you think? Is the gender-neutral bill fair game -- or a face palm?
Even though Florida and Minnesota have already revised their laws, opposers of the bill are saying those phrases are impartial and states should concentrate on more important matters, like economy and education. What do you think? Is the gender-neutral bill fair game -- or a face palm?
Read More: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/03/washing...
I once had to rewrite a local Federal Civil Service manual to remove all reference to He, She, Him and marital status such as Mrs and Miss, what a friggin PIA to have to remove VERY old English traditional indefinite forms to suit some offended Prima Donas that do NOT want to be anything but VERBALLY equal if nothing else. None of this verbal implications of other sexes when talking about anyone, Name the Name, as it were.
For most of the books they female terms, (Except sometimes for class descriptions where their example is a male, or for most monsters...) That seems to work fine.
Besides, who actually thinks the term "freshmen" means they're all male, is offended by that or is too stupid to be able to substitute their own gender descriptor?
Although if this does pass, the gender neutral thing should apply to religious institutions also. Why is god always addressed as a "he"?
I think it's because people prefer to say "he" than "it" about their god. "It" tends to be seen as negative.
I prefer the Polytheistic religions for that, most of those assign all of their gods atleast one gender.
This business of 'new age' thinking; a society where anything and everything is 'ok', from sexual perversion (soliciting and even applauding homosexuality as 'just another life choice) to religious smorgasbord from which children can choose to build their own morality is both infantile and dangerously seductive to those with weak minds.
Before you go berating Christians and their morality, let me set my argument in place. The Bible has been around for over 2000 years. It is now and has always been the leading best seller of all time since the advent of the printed word. All of the other spiritual tomes pale in comparison. The leading ones that strive for equivalence with the Bible pale in comparison.
The Bible is a teaching manual for living life Those that decry its truths and deny its credibility by reading it and cutting huge smipets simply for the purpose of refuting its teachings as hypocritical, advocating violence and to portray God as the source of evil and all of the wrongs in the world are erroneous in their very foundation. They are the epitome of apostate thinking.
So your contention and adcocacy of a 'let the children tea...
This business of 'new age' thinking; a society where anything and everything is 'ok', from sexual perversion (soliciting and even applauding homosexuality as 'just another life choice) to religious smorgasbord from which children can choose to build their own morality is both infantile and dangerously seductive to those with weak minds.
Before you go berating Christians and their morality, let me set my argument in place. The Bible has been around for over 2000 years. It is now and has always been the leading best seller of all time since the advent of the printed word. All of the other spiritual tomes pale in comparison. The leading ones that strive for equivalence with the Bible pale in comparison.
The Bible is a teaching manual for living life Those that decry its truths and deny its credibility by reading it and cutting huge smipets simply for the purpose of refuting its teachings as hypocritical, advocating violence and to portray God as the source of evil and all of the wrongs in the world are erroneous in their very foundation. They are the epitome of apostate thinking.
So your contention and adcocacy of a 'let the children teach themselves' mindset promotes the blind leading the blind.
The sentence in which you advocate a gender neutral God is the key to my contentions.This was a reaction to a couple of short sentences, and it is a long one but has roots in reason. That reason is that any of this new age garbage such as calling God 'she' or advocating 'gender neutrality' is false and promotional of a 1984 type of society and should not be pursued. And those that do advocate this sort of thing are a destructive blight on society and should be ignored and excised.
Satisfied? You asked for it...several times.
It isn't rational. It might be feel good to the overly sensitive feminists but all it really is doing is unnecessarily making communication complicated when people already understand word use as it conventionally been applied for decades.
What an extraordinary waste of time & money and commonsense that it got serious consideration at all.