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I'd like to see the cost associated with making these changes. I think that's the crux of the situation because I don't see any legal ramifications for them to go in and change the wording.
States publish new and revised laws every year. The cost of changing fireman and policeman to firefighter and police officer is zero to negligible.
These changes are updating language, not substantive. There's no sensible reasons to oppose This scrapping 'man' for neutral terms.
There is nothing wrong with "mailman, fireman, policeman" etc.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy how deep the dehumanization of females is built into English language, isn't it? The language is almost ill-suited to even discuss it.
There is nothing wrong with "mailman, fireman, policeman" etc.
Not the same at all.
Fireman clearly indicates a man who fights fires -- so a male firefighter.
Policeman clearly indicates a man who is a police officer and is a man. It just does. Policeman never meant a woman who was an officer -- never has.
The words you have chose as justification for never ever calling someone who is a woman a fire fighter instead of a fireman -- just don't work as a logical, reasonable or intelligent excuse.
I know we are becoming a nation that doesn't care about reading, vocabulary, the intricate differences in the meanings of word......reading comprehension is sliding daily --
Sometime I sympathize with lawmakers who get requests for these outrageous legal changes.
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