If it was so important to them ok but why not just pass a quick bill saying "from now on in previou statutes fisherman will be assumed to imply fisher, fireman willbe assumed to mean fireperson" etc and use the new terminology in fiture bills? Going back seems tedious

Tedious especially considering there are probably rules on the books about horse drawn carriages.

Though my "favorite" prt is the irony of gender specific words being removed at the support of the National WOMEN's Law Center. So when is the law center going to change their gender biased language, because "Words matter," Liz Watson....

What kinda moron assumes all fishermen are men these days?

How hard would have been to simply amments the first article of the states staute to read all law apply equally to both sexes?

Better question, how come all laws didnt apply equally to both sexes?

Finally what words were used to replace huMAN and woMAN?

"Have you seen the new edition of the Newspeak dictionary? It's this thick. And the next edition will be that thick. It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc.

Smile for the cameras. Line up for your Federal healthcare. Line up to be searched by "Homeland Security". George was just ahead of his time.

Are they changing husband and wife to spouse? What about "Violence against woman" laws?

What fuckin' idiocy.

I'm sure that Washington state is swimming in money to do this too.

Are they changing husband and wife to spouse?
No, it is changed to Parent1 and Parent2. Seriously.

I guess the regularization of "womyn" and "wymmyn" is next.

I was going to decry this as legislative histrionics, but then I realized that was gender-biased way of describing it (HIS-trionics).

How do they expect to manage ... um, administer ... such a such a widespread change in the language?

This will go down in history ... oops, um, the past in the future ... oh forget it, I'm off to Hispaniola ... damn it.

And this should make a huge difference for all the women at Microsoft, right? Because if Gates decided to move the company to Bora-Bora, WA would go broke.

What magical powers does Ms Watson possess that enable her to make an entire state government leap to do her bidding? It would be nice if my government did what I want them to, but to them I'm just citizen #22848616 and I have to take a number & wait. Yet when Liz Watson of the National Women's Law Center decrees that all statutes must be translated from English to Newspeak, duly elected representatives all the way up to the Governor bow and obey.

Why does she get her way and I don't?

At my fine institution of higher learning, in the early 80's, women was "womyn." It's as ludicrous now as it was then.

And I still cannot bring myself to use "they" or "them" for third-person singular, but I will substitute "one" and mix it up between "he" and "she."

Other mix-ups between "he" and "she" are out of scope for this discussion.

Easy luj you just do a search and replace every instance of man with human. So human becomes huhuman and woman becimes wohuman and... Wait that didnt work theres still a man in there... Ok we need to do the search and replace again...

Now old white men everywhere are trembling in newfound awareness that these bold risk-taking rascals are not above thumbing their noses at stale convention!

I'm sure these social adventurers are grateful for their allies, the semi-proletariat and the reactionary classes of the petite bourgeoisie, and will spare them the noose when the revolution comes.

Their next pronouncement: All must learn to play the piano!

"Woman" --> "Woperson" --> "Wopermasculinechild"

Who could possibly object to this thought-cleansing?

The comments on this blog are HYSterical.

But on a sad note, my wife needs a HYSterectomy.

Lately I've come to think that those who got their lunch money taken from them - and who can't do anything other than desk work - are getting back at the rest of us by working in these positions, emasculating America as a whole.

The American empire is done. They gave it away, just like the Romans and the British. Cue China.

Manhole cover = sewer lid.

This would be an improvement.

If you are so insecure that you need to pass such a bill, I guess you need it. I don't really care what the wording is, that's just semantic bullshit.

"The bill, signed into law earlier in the year by Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee" who is himself ... a freshman.

Keep in mind, the same people who spent time on this nonsense are the very same people who came within three days of a state government shutdown because they couldn't find a way to pass the budget in the six-month timeframe they were given.

Yay, Washington state!