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Military

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

Charles Oliver | 1.12.2016 6:00 AM

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Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has ordered the Marine Corps to remove the word "man" from all job titles.  Jobs such as reconnaissance man and field artillery man will presumably become reconnaissance person or field artillery individual.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    From the halls of Montezuma
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  2. Radioactive   9 years ago

    wait 'till you see the new pink paisley camouflage...it's to die for

  3. Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair   9 years ago

    As I understand it, he has merely ordered the Navy and Marines to see which terms can be changed now that there are no more men-only combat roles. The version I read said airman, seaman, fireman and the like would be particularly troublesome, suggesting fireman might become engineer, surely on the same level as garbageman becoming sanitation engineer. Yeoman could become anything, it's so general purpose, but it has so much tradition.

    1. Radioactive   9 years ago

      yo

  4. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   9 years ago

    You know what might help? Changing Nanny to "Nan-person," Midwife to "Mid-person," and Surrogate to Surro-Person. That way men who join fields of work that are all female or nearly all female can be confident that their title will accurately abolish the sexist filth that arose from empirical observation of the majority of those under the title.

    Yeoman. Fucking sexists.

    1. Radioactive   9 years ago

      yo yo

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