When Will This Stupidly Cease ?

[Bobbisox1]

Furthermore have these ‘Wokes’ got nothing better to do with their time than complain, ? What a pile of sad sacs we live amongst , and when will companies like Argos stop kowtowing to them

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11131007/Now-Argos-scraps-term-two-man-delivery-woke-customers-complain-sexist.html

[Gromit]

// Just wondering when menstruate and menopause cannot be used. //

Meno is from the Greek for Month or moon. It does not refer to gender, but a time period. No pun intended.

[naomi24]

But menstruate and menopause refer to gender ....

[Ellipsis]

> Maybe some ABers should look up the word 'Man'

Best answer! Just to save the effort, here is what it means as a noun:

1. an adult male human being.
"a tall man with a beard"
Similar: male, adult male, gentleman, guy, fellow, gent

2. a human being of either sex; a person.
"goodwill to all men"
Similar: human being, human, person

[sandyRoe]

What's wrong with a company using a phrase like, 'Two person delivery team'?
They're not in business to antagonise potential customers.

[Ellipsis]

> They're not in business to antagonise potential customers.

"Two person delivery team" does antagonise potential customers! As this thread demonstrates ...

[perseverer]

Quote "Seems changes used to happen without being put on Twitter, Facebook etc etc etc."

Perhaps because Twitter, Facebook etc (and Answerbank) didn't exist. Would the world be worse off if everybody and anybody couldn't spout off whatever comes into their heads so easily?

[Hopkirk]

Perhaps this in the mould of Richard Branson's methods.

An excuse for a bit of free publicity.

[pastafreak]

That's what I meant perserverer. I thought it was clear.

[youngmafbog]

Couldn't care less myself what Argos call them, it is owned by the lefty Saisnbury group.

I do wonder what the French are going to do though. Will they have to change the language so nothing is gendered?

Can't see that going down too well!

[jno]

perhaps you can request two men?

[burlyshirley1]

Good BA.

[fender62]

country is going to pot, wokery crime illegal migrants spiralling utility prices, on a funny note..i remember back in the day.. every other word was yea man, cool man far out man.

[Bobbisox1]

Haha, you’d get thrown in the slammer now Fender , even Pokerman sound odd ,Pokerperson? That’s a tad rude so I’ll ‘complain ‘ :0)))

[MissTerious]

I feel exactly like Sqad. Yes, great best answer awarded by Bobbi.

[Barsel]

I blame Meghan Markle, she started it all by writing to Proctor Gamble to complain about their advert about fairy liquid as it depicted that only women do the washing up. Apparently they changed the dialogue.

[archibaldy]

If it hadn't been posted in the 'newspaper' 99.99% of people wouldn't even have noticed, and 99.999% of people who did wouldn't care. The Daily Mail yet again telling people what they should be outraged about .

[Bobbisox1]

I think you’ve got my emotion mixed up from being outraged to being sick of pandering to nutters !

[archibaldy]

Fair enough, but I believe my point stands - if in 3 months time you had just casually read "two person delivery" on an Argos product then I don't think you would feel as sick as you do now after being wound up by the Daily Mail.

[Bobbisox1]

Archie, I’m not wound up but fed up ;0)

[archibaldy]

I get that, and I think a lot of the gender stuff I think is ridiculous too.. But I personally don't find "two person delivery" to be anywhere near the worst of it. And I don't believe many people would even notice or care about this if it wasn't pointed out to them by the DM in language designed to invoke emotion.