You think QANTAS has it wrong, look what the State of Washington did...
they tried real hard to get the 'man' and 'men' out of terms...they tried very hard to change the word women to womyn! No more penmanship (not that they are taught to write any longer)
Documents must refer to people living there as residents, not citizens, because they have so many undoc illegals.
On a side note, some that are still okay to use....
Airmen
Seaman
Man Hole
Conman
Family Man
No more Master Bedroom, now Main bedroom...yep and ALL official State documents have to be changed over time.
There's no good reason for keeping our legal terms anachronistic and with words that do not respect our current contemporary times,' Kohl-Welles, the 475-page bill's sponsor, told Reuters.
The state likely won't change the words 'airmen' and 'seaman,' for example, because of objections by the state's Washington Military Department, he said.
Civil engineering terms such as 'man hole' and 'man lock,' also will not be changed because no common-sense substitutes could easily be found, Thiessen said.
Nearly 3,500 Washington state code sections, out of a total of about 40,000 have been tediously scrubbed of gender bias, although most involve adding pronouns 'she' and 'her' to augment the existing 'he' and 'his,' Thiessen said.
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Farewell to freshman - Washington State to remove 40,000 pieces of legislation of 'gender biased language'...but manhole survives | Daily Mail Online
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Looks like Abbot made sense for once!