More Verbal Victims In The War Of Being Politically Correct

I can't help but hope that this would never happen in Idaho. Earlier this week we learned that having a master bedroom is insensitive to women and slaves. Now the war on American vernacular and forcing everyone to be politically correct takes another step in the wrong direction. Reuters reports that the state of Washington (a president who I think would be very angry to hear this information) has a new law to rewrite all their laws and replace all masculine words with gender-neutral words. That means the word "fisher" will replace "fisherman", "first-year student" will replace "freshman", and "penmanship" will be replaced by "handwriting."

A few masculine words will escape this barrage unscathed though - "airmen" and "seaman" will be unchanged, not because "air people" and "sea people" sounds ridiculous, but because of objections by the state's Washington Military Department.

These geniuses even wanted to get rid of the word "manhole" but couldn't come up with an appropriate gender-neutral substitute.  I think they should just call it "peephole" and avoid any further confusion.