Some fool bureaucrat fixer thought they could watch Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and create "gender neuter" policy simultaneously.
Costello: What's the guy's name on first base?
Abbott: No. What is on second.
Costello: I'm not asking you who's on second.
Abbott: Who's on first.....
Abbott: What's on second.
Costello: I don't know.
Abbott & Costello Together: Third base!
PAUSE
Someone on the news stated how the policy was made for "same sex' parents, then asked how, under the old policy, could you tell who was the father and who was the mother?
Easy, the father wears a lumberjack shirt and the mother is light in the loafers! [Mooserider]
Ah, the law of unintended consequences, as our central authorities strive ever more mightily to blanch all meaning out of the language — under the strange credo that the more incoherently “neutral” our communication, the happier we will all be.
At first I thought it was a spoof, when reports came out that U.S. passport application forms will no longer ask you to list your “mother” and “father” — and will instead ask for details of “parent one” and “parent two.” But no, it’s right there in a Dec. 22 State Department press release, with added detail from State in stories yesterday on Fox and in the Washington Post. According to the State Department, the aim of the new form, to be rolled out in February, is to “provide a gender neutral description of a child’s parents” and “recognition of different types of families.”...
...nyway, brace yourself. Americans fought in World War II for such icons as motherhood and apple pie. These days, I guess the brave men and women fighting in Overseas Contingency Operations to prevent further Man-Caused disasters are expected to comfort themselves that they are fighting for Parent #1 (or #2?) and zero-trans-fat vegetable portions. Hooah.
[Read the article at the above link]
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