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RAF Gender Neutrality Language-Really??

Old 13th Sep 2023, 16:23
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Personally I still think Male and Female is the way to go, as a male identifying as a female or vice versa is covered under one or both and that goes for the reverse. A person who has undergone a sex change or are on that path are also covered until the operations are completed with Male/Female or vice versa.

Though if you identify as a table lamp you need unplugging..
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Old 13th Sep 2023, 16:31
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Originally Posted by Bob Viking
I’m more bothered by why people get so annoyed by all this cr@p. If it doesn’t directly affect you, why get annoyed by it?

Yes I realise my statement is a direct contradiction. Are you now getting annoyed by the fact that I’m getting annoyed about people getting annoyed about stuff?

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Yes, here in 2023, people are just getting on with stuff.
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Old 13th Sep 2023, 16:33
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Originally Posted by NutLoose
I feel for the poor bugger that has had to trawl through QR's to convert them into KR's to be told to start again and check for wokeiness lol.
You imply ["bugger"] that the rewriter / writer is male.
I am outraged.
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Old 13th Sep 2023, 18:20
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Originally Posted by NutLoose
We could of course just call everyone knobs, as I have worked with knobs from all sexes.
Tut tut Nutty, its 'both sexes' not 'all sexes'
If you had a pound for every sex you would have two pounds and a load of counterfeits
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Old 13th Sep 2023, 18:33
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Originally Posted by langleybaston
MANipulate
I am utterly outraged by your efforts to dis the word 'manipulate' purely on the basis that it contains the word 'man' within it. Are you blind? Can't you see it also contains the word 'nip' as well, which almost completely balances things up? OK, in your defence, it would require a pair of nips to be equal to one man, but as it also contains 'nipul', which is close enough to complete the pair of nips, what more do you want, man? Now I'm left wondering, is it OK to have the word 'ate' right next to a 'nipul'? Damn, why does life have to so complicated! As for a man intertwined with a nipul - I think I need to sit down for a rest.
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Old 13th Sep 2023, 20:06
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I am surprised that ComMANdant RAFAC doesn’t have anything better to do.
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Old 13th Sep 2023, 20:23
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I am surprised that ComMANdant RAFAC doesn’t have anything better to do.
I'm not. I worked for him several years ago.
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Old 13th Sep 2023, 21:07
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peak clown world
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Old 14th Sep 2023, 05:35
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Originally Posted by Dufo
There are two genders. The rest are psychiatric disorders and should be assessed as unfit to work/fly as with other similar conditions.
Ppruner sets out to prove that dinosaurs are not extinct.
How many options are available when a pregnant woman has an ultra sound?
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Old 14th Sep 2023, 08:50
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...Hermaphrodite ....
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Old 14th Sep 2023, 09:14
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I'm 100 percent with Dufo on this one.
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Old 14th Sep 2023, 09:27
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I'd love to think this is a wind up, but something tells me not. So, the tech pubs guys have 3 months to amend every AP? Where's the money coming from?
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Old 14th Sep 2023, 09:41
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Presumably....if AirMANship and MarksMANship have to be gone by the end of the year, then so does the ComMANdant. Certainly gets my vote.
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Old 14th Sep 2023, 09:49
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Originally Posted by Bob Viking
Bearing in mind that people currently serving either don’t post on here or aren’t especially bothered and just get on with their jobs......BV
Incorrect on both counts. Still serving and do get bothered by this ridiculous drive to remove common sense from the military (and its cadet organizations).

As for ComMANdant AC, he went full woke years ago.
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Old 14th Sep 2023, 10:06
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Wasn't another infamous wokist a former Commandant of the ATC (as it was then)?
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Old 14th Sep 2023, 10:57
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The World is in a terrible state with wars, food, water, energy, climate, mass immigration etc, all in crisis.

And these people are choosing this moment to get worried about the perceived "gender" of certain names and job titles ?? Wouldn't it be a little more useful to engage in planning what we do if Cretin, sorry, Putin presses the big red button, and/or invades the Shetlands, or the Faroe Islands for example?

Wait....let me check the date.......nope, not that.

Great job, identifying the really, seriously, high priority, important issues facing us and our country right now. If a change of gender language will solve all these current issues, I will eat my hat.
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Old 14th Sep 2023, 15:01
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Old 14th Sep 2023, 16:48
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No more Wingman then?
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Old 14th Sep 2023, 17:03
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I suppose as Officers will now lose their batman, they will have to resort to calling them wallah?
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Old 14th Sep 2023, 17:19
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Originally Posted by NutLoose
I suppose as Officers will now lose their batman, they will have to resort to calling them wallah?
How about "Experience Facilitator" ?
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