Monday - March 16, 2009

I MOST SINCERELY HOPE THIS IS A HOAX, A JOKE, A GIGGLE SOMEONE MADE UP. IF NOT…..

If it’s true and there really and honestly and truly are people who buy into this for honest to gosh serious ,,,,

Then England and Europe europe are in some deep doo-doo. 

If this is not a hoax, as I’m almost inclined to believe it is, then there are some ppl who need to seriously think about getting a job. If anyone will have them. But oh wait a minute, that’s why they’re employed by the eu.

These folks rake in tons of money from member states,,, for this?
I should mention that I couldn’t find this story in the Daily Mail.  ??? 

Maybe the citizens of the member states should pay em to DO NOTHING!

Euro chiefs ban ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’
The European Parliament has banned the terms ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’ in case they offend female MEPs.

By Simon Johnson
Last Updated: 3:06PM GMT 15 Mar 2009

The politically correct rules also mean a ban on Continental titles, such as Madame and Mademoiselle, Frau and Fraulein and Senora and Senorita.

Guidance issued in a new ‘Gender-Neutral Language’ pamphlet instead orders politicians to address female members by their full name only.

Also, ‘sportsmen’ be called ‘athletes’,
‘statesmen’ be referred to as ‘political leaders’ and even that ‘synthetic’ or ‘artificial’ be used instead of ‘man-made’.

The guidance lists banned terms for describing professions, including fireman, air hostess, headmaster, policeman, salesman, manageress, cinema usherette and male nurse.

However MEPs are still allowed to refer to ‘midwives’ as there is no accepted male version of the job description.

The booklet also admits that “no gender-neutral term has been successfully proposed” to replace ‘waiter’ and ‘waitress’, allowing parliamentarians to use these words in a restaurant or café.

It has been circulated by Harold Romer, the parliament’s secretary general, to the 785 MEPs working in Brussels and Strasbourg.

Struan Stevenson, a Scottish Conservative MEP described the guidelines as “political correctness gone mad.”

He said: “We have seen the EU institutions try to ban the bagpipes and dictate the shape of bananas, but now they see determined to tell us which words we are entitled to use in our own language.”

Philip Bradbourn, another Conservative MEP, vowed to ignore the booklet, which he described as a “waste of taxpayers’ money” and called on Mr Romer to reveal its cost.

He added: “I will have no part of it. I will continue to use my own language and expressions, which I have used all my life, and will not be instructed by this institution or anyone else in these matters.”

Seven years ago, an attempt to amend noise laws came close to effectively outlawing bagpipes.

However, a number of bizarre EU rules remain in place, including a directive stating that every pair of rubber boots must be supplied with a user’s manual in 12 languages.

TELEGRAPH

THIS IS THE EDITORIAL REPLY FROM THE TELEGRAPH

Vive la différence
Brussels’ latest ruling on ‘gender neutrality’ is absurd

Telegraph View
Last Updated: 7:18PM GMT 15 Mar 2009

In the interests of “gender neutrality”, the European Parliament is seeking to prohibit the use of such inflammatory words as Miss or Mrs, Madame or Mademoiselle, Señora or Señorita. When addressing each other, MEPs must avoid any reference whatsoever to a woman’s marital status. Whatever next? It can only be a matter of time before the words “man” and “woman” are proscribed by the nitwits in Brussels on the grounds that their use is loaded, gender-wise. What a dull world they want for us – and our civilisation. Would Emma Bovary have been quite so intriguing as a mere Ms? And to gender neutralise the Mademoiselle from Armentières would rather miss the point. Are they being serious – or is this just another one of those notorious Brussels myths? Or should that by Mses?

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