“Manholes” are now “Maintenance Holes” in Berkeley, CA
“Councilman Rigel Robinson, a 23-year-old recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, sponsored the ordinance.”
The city council of Berkeley, CA, just took another step in the progressive competition for wokeness. They have changed municipal codes to be gender neutral, in an effort to be more inclusive.
Filipa Ioannou writes at the San Francisco Gate:
Manholes in Berkeley will now be called ‘maintenance holes’
At a Tuesday night city council meeting, Berkeley became the first city in America to ban the use of natural gas piping in new construction. But that was not the only utility-related issue they saw fit to attend to. No, there was another matter on deck: Eliminating the gendered connotations of words like “manhole” in the city municipal code.
No longer will the streets of fair Berkeley be dotted with manholes, nary a womanhole or nonbinaryhole in sight. With Tuesday night’s vote, they have all been transmuted into “maintenance holes,” that highest, hardest glass manhole-cover finally shattered.
The item, originally on the council agenda for March 12, was sponsored by councilmembers Rigel Robinson, Cheryl Davila, Ben Bartlett and Lori Droste, reports Berkeleyside. The ordinance eliminates all gendered pronouns from the city code, replacing “she” and “he” with “they.”
“Manpower” will be referred to as “human effort,” and “man-made” objects will be described with terms like “human-made,” “artificial,” “manufactured,” “machine made” or “synthetic.”
Christina Coleman of FOX News has more:
Councilman Rigel Robinson, a 23-year-old recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, sponsored the ordinance. He tweeted, in part: “There is power in language. It’s a small move, but it matters.”
Berkeley City Manager Dee Williams-Ridley wrote in a memorandum to council, “In recent years, broadening societal awareness of transgender and gender-nonconforming identities has brought to light the importance of non-binary gender inclusivity.”
Terms like fraternity or sorority will be changed to “collegiate Greek system residence.” Other terms that will be changed include pregnant woman or women. It will be switched to pregnant employees. Brothers and sisters will be switched to sibling.
As we have warned before, the culture of the liberal college campus is creeping into real life. Here’s a short video from KPIX News:
On a related note, one of the Democrats running in 2020 is fully on board when it comes to embracing pronoun culture. She’s just so with it:
.@ewarren has added her pronouns to her twitter bio. Julián is the only other one I found in a quick canvass of the other candidates. pic.twitter.com/43lqYRuKFt
— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) July 18, 2019
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I’d be willing to bet that the number of city workers who climb down into those holes and don’t identify as male is exactly zero.
Let the neuterings begin…in Berkeley. Rigel Robinson, you’re first.
DoublePlusUngood
I think you are talking micro-surgery here….
I find the NG ordinance to be disturbing. The only reason it is even feasible there is because of the moderate climate in Berkeley. In just about any other climate the cost extremes of heating and cooling would kill you. In southern Ohio a heat pump / resistance heater backup can cost as much as 500 or more a month to heat a 3k sq-ft house. In Tulsa it will cost 300 to cool a same size house with an efficient AC unit let alone use a heat pump……
You don’t neeeeed a 3,000 square foot house in the first place! /sarc
Yes! If the unibomber can do it so can you.
Agreed on the stupidity of the NG ban. The occupants of those homes will suffer economically from their all-electric homes. For most of what many call summer, the northern portion of the Bay Area sees a marine layer that pushes inland over night making the mornings pretty chilly, requiring some heat. It often burns off by mid-morning, but returns as a high level fog bank that pushes in through the Golden Gate and directly into Berkeley, again lowering temperatures.
Couple that with the PG&E plans to de-energize portions of the power grid when weather dictates in order to reduce chances of their lines starting fires (they have a history), and you will find those occupants without any energy source at all, other than a handful of D-cell batteries.
Well the crews should reserve removal of the maintenance hole covers for those workers who are actual females, just to show how woke they are.
When we said this elimination of make and female and the entire basis of human families since forever was their goal …they said we were crazy tin hat wearing haters…..
….male
Bonfire of the inanities.
Physiological and mental differences between the sexes that assure one or the other is on average better fit to a purpose are just an illusion. What matters is how politicians and activists think.
Good to see them prioritizing the really important stuff.
/sarc
Ok then. Here’s a better word with meaning….assholes
In other words, name them after Councilman Rigel Robinson…
I wish his surname was Jefferies (Tubes), though I suppose Rigel Tubes will do. Let us hope a Horta gets him when he goes down one.
Sewer Viewer.
Why does calling them ‘womanholes’ just sound so… wrong?
“Councilman Rigel Robinson”. Shouldn’t that be “Councileunuch Rigel Robinson”?
What about “management?” Or “manuscript?”
Biggest trigger word: “Manliness.”
Don’t indulge these sickos. Give them an inch, and they’ll take your country.
I would think gender neutrality to be a difficult task when there are 64 of them.
Two genders: masculine and feminine. Then a transgender spectrum for significantly aberrant physical and mental attributes.
Their goal is very sick and very Orwellian. At the end of the day, it’s about grabbing our money – for themselves.
They are the new Soviets.
How about street holes in tribute to transgender normalization through labeling front, back, and top holes.
So, was manhole ever officially the word for it to begin with? I have no particular problem calling them maintenance holes. I’m just asking out loud, was this ever in official documents to begin with, or is it shorthand that gained wide circulation?
Manholes may now be called maintenance holes in Bezerkley, but (excuse my coarseness here) assholes are still assholes.
No worry, San Francisco will still have plenty on Castro Street.
We should be fair, give the girls a chance, and start calling these things “womanholes.”
Unintended consequences strike again.
What name do the mental midgets in Jerkeley now use for a lazy Susan?
We’ll call them Lazy Hillarys, or Lazy Moooochelles.
The names are perfect.
I’m seriously doubting that anyone without a Y chromosome climbs into those things.