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-Land of the Free
Manholes in Berkeley will now be called 'maintenance holes'
2019-07-19
[MSN] 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."
City Council to be referred to as "Jackholes"

Posted by:Fred

#11  Pneumatic sexism. Hose connections, both male and female.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-07-19 19:24  

#10  How many persons not identifying as a man could actually lifted up a Maintenance Hole cover?
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-07-19 19:06  

#9  I would be curious to know. How many persons not identifying as a man actually lifted up a Maintenance Hole and went into a sewer?
Posted by: Airandee   2019-07-19 15:36  

#8  There was a suggestion to call them "womanholes" but that got the MeToo panties in a wad.
Posted by: warthogswife   2019-07-19 11:53  

#7  Per'son'? They're access hatches, access corridors, etc.
Posted by: Bobby   2019-07-19 10:46  

#6  'Man'-tenance?
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-07-19 09:07  

#5  Nothing new. Back in the mid-90's when I was working at Oak Ridge we got instructions to call manways person access, man hours person effort, and anything gender specific changed to gender neutral.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2019-07-19 08:25  

#4  A$$ holes?
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-07-19 08:17  

#3  Now referred to simply as POS.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-07-19 06:54  

#2  Fortunately, "$hithole" is still allowed. Would be hard to describe Berkeley if it weren't.
Posted by: Lex   2019-07-19 03:03  

#1  Banning new natural gas piping. Go ahead. Go back to the 19th century. Grab the popcorn.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2019-07-19 00:14  

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