Woke Insanity: UK Fire Chief Bans Use of ‘Fireman’ and ‘Firemen’ as ‘Sexist’
A UK fire chief has been accused of “wokeism gone mad” after banning the terms “fireman” and “firemen” — calling them “sexist, exclusionary” and a “micro-aggression that is damaging to our culture.”
Dave Russel, the chief fire officer for Greater Manchester, said in an email obtained by the Bolton News that the terms used in “everyday vocabulary” will “not be tolerated.”
“We employ firefighters, not ‘firemen,’ and haven’t for decades, so why use the term?” he wrote, with the Telegraph saying it applied to the singular term, too.
“Its connotation is sexist, exclusionary, and represents a form of micro-aggression that is damaging to our culture.
“This needs to stop and the term permanently erased from our vocabulary.” (Read more from “Woke Insanity: UK Fire Chief Bans Use of ‘Fireman’ and ‘Firemen’ as ‘Sexist’” HERE)
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