Saturday, February 9, 2013

Washington state law adopts gender-neutral language

Our society is beset by an overabundance of guns, people who text while driving, an underfunded mental-health system and too many education reformers bent on making every kid an engineer.
Big issues, those. But not as important to some as making our language more gender-neutral [“State law moves toward gender-neutral language,” NWMonday, Feb. 4].
No one can quarrel with “police officers” instead of “policemen,” since there are now many women on the force. Ditto “firefighters,” instead of “firemen.”

 http://seattletimes.com/html/northwestvoices/2020294206_gender-neutrality-lets6.html

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