Manholes are gender neutral now

Ulysses Gaze · 19-07-2019 05:33PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

I'll go to my grave calling a man hole what it is and that's a MAN HOLE....

And I shall go to my grave calling the place I park my car, my CAR HOLE.

Ninthlife · 19-07-2019 05:38PM

When will manslaughter be renamed. Im outraged men get labelled with such a name.

Humanslaughter? Person of no definitive gender slaughter?

The world is gone stupid to be honest

One eyed Jack · 19-07-2019 05:40PM

The Specialist wrote: »

Call them whatever you want, I’ll continue to refer to them by the correct names. Speech policing is unacceptable and must be rejected in all forms.

This post has been brought to you by the Official Speech Police :pac:

Shield · 19-07-2019 05:46PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

This post has been brought to you by the Official Speech Police :pac:

Sorry, I was busy helping a man give birth to a theyby.

Ninthlife · 19-07-2019 05:59PM

All this not allowing he or man be used draws me to the conclusion that He-Man is f**cked

fritzelly · 19-07-2019 06:05PM

This must be a piss take or is RTE sourcing it's news from Waterford Whispers

punisher5112 · 19-07-2019 06:13PM

fritzelly wrote: »

This must be a piss take or is RTE sourcing it's news from Waterford Whispers

I think they're really pushing this trope as it's what's really selling at the moment like not saying mother or father or Boyz or gulrs toilets etc....

I do in me hole want to share a toilet with a woman or can I say woman???!!! They leave the place in a tip.

Bob24 · 19-07-2019 06:21PM

Woodsie1 wrote: »

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7253545/Female-college-student-designs-chair-blocks-manspreading.html

Its all very funny at this stage.

Laugh about it while you can, the next award is going to a brilliant female student who designed a clever device to prevent manlaughing.

punisher5112 · 19-07-2019 06:32PM

I actually hate the way the world seems to be going.....

If you want to be gay, bye, whatever go nock yourself out but by God I don't need all this absolutely diabolical crappy crap crap shoved down my throat.

lbc2019 · 19-07-2019 06:41PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

I actually hate the way the world seems to be going.....

If you want to be gay, bye, whatever go nock yourself out but by God I don't need all this absolutely diabolical crappy crap crap shoved down my throat.

???

Can't be the gays, they love manholes tbf!

leitrim4life · 19-07-2019 06:46PM

Everyday that goes by makes me feel that Isis was on to something.

lbc2019 · 19-07-2019 06:47PM

leitrim4life wrote: »

Everyday that goes by makes me feel that Isis was on to something.

Nuke Leitrim?

Bob24 · 19-07-2019 06:52PM

Ninthlife wrote: »

When will manslaughter be renamed. Im outraged men get labelled with such a name.

Humanslaughter? Person of no definitive gender slaughter?

The world is gone stupid to be honest

Would you fell less offended with gender neutral slaughter, or maybe inclusive slaughter?

punisher5112 · 19-07-2019 07:00PM

lbc2019 wrote: »

???

Can't be the gays, they love manholes tbf!

True but they are all under one banner now a to z and fook the rest of ya normal folk

Autecher · 19-07-2019 07:00PM

Bob24 wrote: »

Would you fell less offended with “gender neutral slaughter”, or maybe “inclusive slaughter” would provide a safe space for you?

How about Sergeant Slaughter?

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 19-07-2019 07:02PM

Could everyone stop being so offensive for two minutes, you're triggering me.

19-07-2019 07:12PM

rireland wrote:

No more manholes lads. Too offensive!

Jasus, call me modern all you want but I'd rather a womanhole over a manhole any day of the week. Maybe that's just me

punisher5112 · 19-07-2019 07:13PM

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Could everyone stop being so offensive for two minutes, you're triggering me.

Oh spill...

The goggles do nothing!!!

is_that_so · 19-07-2019 07:13PM

Bob24 wrote: »

Would you fell less offended with gender neutral slaughter, or maybe inclusive slaughter?

Etymology of the word comes from old English meaning man slaying. We could go back to the Middle English form of man quelling ( without the man!) and just go all Hunger Games!

Yer Da sells Avon · 19-07-2019 07:16PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

I'll go to my grave calling a man hole what it is and that's a MAN HOLE....

I'll probably go to my grave crying out for more morphine, but each to their own.

punisher5112 · 19-07-2019 07:20PM

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

I'll probably go to my grave crying out for more morphine, but each to their own.

Wooss

is_that_so · 19-07-2019 07:22PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

Wooss

Nah, depends what's taking you out! Morphine may be your very last BFF!

Ted Johnson · 19-07-2019 07:27PM

Just another day in clown world. Lets have a parade of 10 year old drag queens to celebrate the progress.

Honk honk!

Sonny noggs · 19-07-2019 07:28PM

Ted Johnson wrote: »

Just another day in clown world. Lets have a parade of 10 year old drag queens to celebrate the progress.

Honk honk!

Drag monarch you mean?

antodeco · 19-07-2019 07:29PM

My friends Personila (instead of Sheila), Personuel (instead of Manuel) and Personry (instead of Henry) will be very upset.

2019newspeak · 19-07-2019 07:30PM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Language changes all the time. It was different before you started speaking it, it'll change during your lifetime and it will continue to change after you're gone.

You say the other people are "arseholes" who "who find victimhood everywhere". But you're getting cross about it. So how would you characterise your view on it? Typically people tend to say something along the lines of "I'm amused", or "I'm just pointing it out". So what makes you so different from the arseholes who find victimhood everywhere?

Lanugage does change all the time. Lanugage usual changes due to how we speak natually.

I doubt anyone was ever insulted by the use of the word manhole, the word may come from the fact that mainly men entered the hole and as a whole that might now be arachic but so are lots of words that are non-genered. I never even put manhole as a gendered object.

Lanugage also is different from country to country. For example we call the Fire Brigade, but in American English its the Fire Department, and with more and more people using american English here Fire Department may well become the natural default for the Fire Brigade, long before anyone changes the title.

As for policeman or policewoman, largely this has fallen out of favour, most call them police officers or in Ireland Gardaí or Garda or Gaurds (I don't ever remember Ban-Garda taking off here). In terms of slang its the cops, the pigs etc.

In this case we seem to have institutianlized use of words, before they are natural defaults.

Pregnant woman to become Pregnant Employee really makes no natural sence. Are all pregant people employed? In terms of Materity Leave does a trans-man get the same materity leave as men or as a woman? Though as paterity leave comes in this will be less of an issue.

I never really understood he/she or him/her when refering to a position when they or them would be more approiate, but to use the title/job position seems excessive, particularly in a job advertisiment. Your duties may include or the poisition holders duties may include or Their duties may include

punisher5112 · 19-07-2019 07:59PM

antodeco wrote: »

My friends Personila (instead of Sheila), Personuel (instead of Manuel) and Personry (instead of Henry) will be very upset.

That hurts my man brain!!!

50HX · 19-07-2019 08:03PM

Can't say ballcock either:D

El_Duderino 09 · 19-07-2019 08:07PM

2019newspeak wrote: »

Lanugage does change all the time. Lanugage usual changes due to how we speak natually.

So language does Change for whatever reason. I suppose it was a terrible injury when the dreaded 'N' word was phased out of normal usage due to PC gone mad. Or calling Irish people "Paddy" or "Mick" was phases out by the PC brigade.

Language changes, usage of words change. The fact that you or I like the set of words we currently use and don't want anything to.cha ge, is beside the point. Things will change regardless. It's really not worth getting upset about.

Ted Johnson · 19-07-2019 08:09PM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Do language does Change for whatever reason. I suppose it was a terrible injury when the dreaded 'N' word was phased out of normal usage due to PC gone mad. Or calling Irish people "Paddy" or "Mick" was phases out by the PC brigade.

Language changes, usage of words change. The fact that you or I like the set of words we currently use and don't want anything to.cha ge, is beside the point. Things will change regardless. It's really not worth getting upset about.

Erasing gender is insane.

Manholes are gender neutral now

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