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Manholes are gender neutral now

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  • #32
    BarryD2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,717 ✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    Rodin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    JohnMc1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭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.


  • #35
    bloodless_coup
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭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.


  • #36
    Lux23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭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?


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  • #37
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭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.


  • #38
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭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....


  • #39
    hetuzozaho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,840 ✭✭✭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


  • #40
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,885 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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!"


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  • #42
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,885 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #43
    rireland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 90 ✭✭rireland


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

    Deadmans switch
    Hangman


  • #44
    tigerboon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭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.;)


  • #45
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 10,222 ✭✭✭✭ [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.


  • #47
    NSAman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,497 ✭✭✭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?


  • #48
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,236 ✭✭✭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.


  • #49
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


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


  • #50
    BloodBath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,283 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #51
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,212 ✭✭✭✭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!!


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  • #52
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Don't mention captain pugwash...


  • #53
    JohnMc1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    Lux23 wrote: »
    But why couldn't they call it a drainhole or something, why does everything have to belong to men?

    gloryhole was already taken.


  • #54
    0ph0rce0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,223 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    Lux23 wrote:
    But why couldn't they call it a drainhole or something, why does everything have to belong to men?

    Because we (men) are ****ing class


  • #55
    jaxxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    Oh f*ck right off. What's next, we're gonna change human to huperson??? The "Dawn of Man" to "The Dawn of People"?! F*CK THIS PC, WRAPPED IN COTTON WOOL, LEFTIST/RIGHTIST WORLD!! I'M JOINING THE ALIENS/ROBOTS SIDE WHEN THEY INVADE/TAKE OVER!!

    ^^ which cannot come quick enough btw!! HURRY UP!!


  • #56
    Franz Von Peppercorn II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    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?

    It’s all going to end with Jimmy Big Beard winning the 2024 female 100M Olympics ahead of Johnny big bollocks in a record time for female athletes.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    That's actually able-ist and speed shaming.

    There will be some fat shaming thrown in too when I finish eating all the little feckors.


  • #58
    Limpy
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Limpy


    Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »
    It’s all going to end with Jimmy Big Beard winning the 2024 female 100M Olympics ahead of Johnny big bollocks in a record time for female athletes.


    They will be battling for second and third as I fancy seMANya to move down from the 1500m to the 100m and take gold.


  • #59
    Ethereal Cereal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭Ethereal Cereal


    I know this it the Social & Fun forum, so I'm just cheking, ye're not actually getting worked up about any of below?
    I think this is a great move, specifically some of the examples the article specifies

    bondsman = bonds-person
    pregnant woman = pregnant employee
    manpower = human effort
    Firemen\firewomen = firefighters
    he or she = the attorney or the merchant

    Imagine being a young girl hearing people who protect you are policemen, or save you from a burning house are firemen.

    This article, in an effort to be click baity, which worked completely here, referenced the most facetious of the name changes...
    manhole = maintenance hole


    "There is power in language" "This is a small move, but it matters."
    agree completely


  • #60
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,445 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    rireland wrote: »

    Where is this all going to end?

    Why would you expe t it to end? It seems to be trending that way (even though this is happening in America, not Ireland).

    Surest way to be unhappy is to be surprised and get triggered by every single news story of this type.


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  • #61
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,817 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Ethereal Cereal wrote: »
    pregnant woman = pregnant employee
    I'm genuinely scratching my head here.

    To thine own self be true



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