{"id":17529,"date":"2021-01-05T03:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17529"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:06:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T10:06:10","slug":"gender-madness-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/01\/05\/gender-madness-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Madness In Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The woke madness of degendering, regendering, or otherwise playing idiotic games with the English language has come to Congress; it is as stupid as you\u2019d think it is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The first measure was the <a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/press-releases\/pelosi-and-mcgovern-unveil-details-rules-package-117th-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduction<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.rules.house.gov\/files\/BILLS-117hresPIH-hres5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Rules<\/a> that makes use of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/01\/proposed-house-rules-gender-terms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gendered<\/a>\u201d terms like \u201cman\u201d, \u201cfather\u201d, or \u201cniece\u201d\u2014amongst other linguistic changes\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/new-democratic-house-rules-gender-neutral-curtail-gops-ability-force-gotcha-votes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">verboten<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn an effort to be inclusive to those who don&#8217;t identify as a specific gender, the rules package strips all mention of gender-specific pronouns and terms such as \u2018man,\u2019 \u2018woman,\u2019 \u2018mother\u2019 and \u2018son.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Office of the Whistleblower Ombudsman, for instance, is renamed in the rules to the \u2018Office of the Whistleblower Ombuds.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere&#8217;s nothing in the rules that prohibit members from using gender-specific terms when speaking on the House floor or conducting business.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_12203\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12203\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12203\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mayonnaise-gender.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mayonnaise-gender.jpg 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mayonnaise-gender-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meanwhile\u2026 in the House of Representatives.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Interestingly, this may just be an <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/karen-townsend\/2021\/01\/03\/new-house-rules-gender-neutral-language-second-amendment-friendly-curtails-minority-party-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intentional distraction<\/a> from more nefarious changes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA major change is the elimination of paygo \u2013 the requirement that members find a way to pay for legislation when it is introduced. This will allow Medicare-For-All and the Green New Deal to be pursued without any plan for paying for such expensive legislation \u2013 trillions of dollars at stake.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The idiocy was then double-downed upon:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">How dumb are these people? <\/p>\n<p>They think \u201damen\u201d is a gendered word. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmen and Awomen.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pweNiIiQA5\">pic.twitter.com\/pweNiIiQA5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breanna Morello \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@breannamorello) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/breannamorello\/status\/1345867264277553153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amen<\/a>\u201d isn\u2019t a \u201cgendered word\u201d even though the word has the letters \u201cm\u201d, \u201ce\u201d, and \u201cn\u201d in that order, demonstrates not only the ignorance involved but a desire to go full \u201cNewspeak\u201d no matter how loony it is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Perhaps they should have chosen Alexander Anderson to give the invocation instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3pRa7665Bf8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The full proposed rules can be read below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"117TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, and for other purposes.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/489815607\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-KlaLVIawSIj9cDLAK7Mp\" data-auto-height=\"true\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p  style=\"   margin: 12px auto 6px auto;   font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;   font-style: normal;   font-variant: normal;   font-weight: normal;   font-size: 14px;   line-height: normal;   font-size-adjust: none;   font-stretch: normal; 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