Washington gets rid of sexist words.

[Ryan...]

On a scale of 1 to full-fledged-fucking-retard, how far have they gone?


In Washington state, the word "freshman" is out. And "first-year student" is in. In total, 40,000 words have been changed as part of an effort to rid state statutes of gender-biased language.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/washington-state-gets-rid-sexist-language-162549523.html

IMO: if they solved their homeless problems, are running a surplus budget in the +10 million range, high school drop outs have been eliminated, and they're providing only organic foods for the price of fast food, they have no business wasting time with shit like this.

Who the fuck is ACTUALLY offended by the word freshman? Who? Anybody?
And that begs the question; do we actually give a shit about people that are offended by stuff like this? Does their opinion even really matter?

[mrsleeve]

The PC thing is going to kill us all

You have no rights to NOT be offended. Somewhere sometime your going to get offended and you need to learn to deal with it.

In fact I am offended that the state of WA is doing this to try to not offend me

[Todd Black 88]

Get ready for the separating of the genders by changing the names to "Man" and "Woperson"

[shameson]

I love my state, but the state-level politics here are getting ridiculous

[Swanny]

I can understand removing "hateful" terms from legislation but this is just a waste of time.

I really would like to meed the people that carried this through and see what other genius ideas they have for bettering society...

[Ryan...]

"Woperson"

[Ryan...]

I really would like to meed the people that carried this through and see what other genius ideas they have for bettering society...

Democratic state Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles

[Todd Black 88]

^That's a dude. What's he go against sexism?

[Swanny]

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[mrsleeve]

The consequences of the great California exodus. Look at CO as well

[Vokuhila]

It's pretty much the same in western/central Europe as well... as if we didn't have any other problems.

[z31maniac]

Democratic state Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles

What do you expect from a woman who wouldn't take her husbands name?

/sexism

[Xat1cZ]

Making the world a better place, one day at a time. *nod*

[Cephas]

This is the garbage that gets pushed through in our current political system. Isn't there some way to get these asshats to be responsible to and to answer for the people they represent, not simply their own biased agendas?

[Q5Quint]

This is the garbage that gets pushed through in our current political system. Isn't there some way to get these asshats to be responsible to and to answer for the people they represent, not simply their own biased agendas?

I think this has been going on for a while.

Clip from James Madison's wiki:

Madison was elected a second time to the Virginia House of Delegates, serving from 1784 to 1786 in the new years of independence. During these final years in the House of Delegates, Madison grew increasingly frustrated with what he saw as excessive democracy. He criticized the tendency for delegates to cater to the particular interests of their constituents, even if such interests were destructive to the state at large. In particular, he was troubled by a law that denied diplomatic immunity to ambassadors from other countries, and a law that legalized paper money.[21] He thought legislators should be "disinterested" and act in the interests of their state at large, even if this contradicted the wishes of constituents. This "excessive democracy," Madison grew to believe, was the cause of a larger social decay which he and others (such as Washington) believed had resumed after the revolution and was nearing a tipping point.

Seems like the same ole same ole.... going on for... Oh... about 229 years. I think it is a issue when you allow the majority of people to vote on things in the government... you know... a 'democracy'.

More people probably care about wopersons than about our financial situation, so that is what ends up getting voted on. In my state we just made abortions and pitbulls illegal and now require voter id's.

'The will of the people'.