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Ford amends bylaws to adopt gender-neutral language

Published 07/09/2021, 05:03 PM
Updated 07/09/2021, 05:07 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Ford logo is seen at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., January 15, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

(Reuters) - Ford Motor (NYSE:F) Co on Friday amended its bylaws to adopt gender-neutral language in an effort to build more inclusive workplace.

The automaker said it would use the title 'chair' in place of 'chairman'.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Ford logo is seen at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., January 15, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

This comes amid fierce debates over what it means to be a man or a woman, and how language and institutions need to be more inclusive.

Earlier this year, White House added gender-neutral pronouns that people could select when contacting the U.S. government, while professional networking site LinkedIn announced plans to let users add their preferred gender pronouns to accounts in certain countries.

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And mandarins will now just be called darins at the grocery store. Better change mangrove to grove. Mansion to sion. I think I can help rewrite our language, I'm getting pretty good at this! ;o) Wait... do we need to change wombat to just bat? Oh no, what to do? I'm so confused now. What about woman? Wo!
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won't be buying any ford's, that's for sure
It does not come from any fierce debate, it comes from schools indoctrinating children to not understand that the root "man" does not equate to "male"...the world "woman" has "man" in it but does not mean male. They even went so far as some women saying it should be "womyn". Or "latinx" instead of "latino", which has been largely rejected among latinos. Mankind, chairman, mailman are not gendered terms, they only became gendered because of liberals being offended by "man". This is no different than claiming words like "whitewash" and "blackwash" are racist. The racists are the ones who hear the words "white" and "black" and immediately associate it with skin. There is so little actual sexism and racism in this country that they have to fabricate it to push their narrative.
It does not come from any fierce debate, it comes from schools indoctrinating children to not understand that the root "man" does not equate to "male"...the world "woman" has "man" in it but does not mean male. Mankind, chairman, mailman are not gendered terms, they only became gendered because of liberals being offended by "man". This is no different than claiming words like "whitewash" and "blackwash" are racist. The racists are the ones who hear the words "white" and "black" and immediately associate it with skin.
The nonsense we take issue with today never ceases to amaze me. There are much more serious problems in the world today than whether a title implies gender or not. Would it have been so difficult to simply refer to a woman in the chair's seat as "Chairwoman" or is common sense as extinct as the dinosaurs?
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