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BY OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and SAMANTHA MALDONADO, Associated Press
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — There will be no manholes in Berkeley, California...#MadWorld
BY OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and SAMANTHA MALDONADO, Associated Press
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — There will be no manholes in Berkeley, California. City workers will drop into "maintenance holes" instead.
Nothing will be man-made in the liberal city but "human-made." And students at the University of California, Berkeley, will join "collegiate Greek system residences" rather than fraternities and sororities.
Berkeley leaders voted unanimously this week to replace about 40 gender-specific words in the city code with gender-neutral terms — an effort to be more inclusive that's drawing both praise and scorn.
That means "manpower" will become "human effort" or "workforce," while masculine and feminine pronouns like "she," ''her," ''he" and "him" will be replaced by "they" and "them,"
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Maybe they need to change the word 'Human' too, how about 'Hugenderneutralperson', cracking Scrabble word... 5 years ago