EU Bans the Words 'Miss' and 'Mrs'

The EU has once again proven it is a club of idiots.

The European Parliament has banned the terms 'Miss' and 'Mrs' in case they offend female MEPs.

The politically correct rules also mean a ban on Continental titles, such as Madame and Mademoiselle, Frau and Fraulein and Senora and Senorita.

Guidance issued in a new 'Gender-Neutral Language' pamphlet instead orders politicians to address female members by their full name only.

Officials have also ordered that 'sportsmen' be called 'athletes', 'statesmen' be referred to as 'political leaders' and even that 'synthetic' or 'artificial' be used instead of 'man-made'.

The guidance lists banned terms for describing professions, including fireman, air hostess, headmaster, policeman, salesman, manageress, cinema usherette and male nurse.

However MEPs are still allowed to refer to 'midwives' as there is no accepted male version of the job description.

The booklet also admits that "no gender-neutral term has been successfully proposed" to replace 'waiter' and 'waitress', allowing parliamentarians to use these words in a restaurant or café.

How much time and money do you suppose was spent in the production of such a pamphlet? How many bureaucrat hours were spent divining every engendered word and then determining an appropriate substitution? How much time and money will be spent on properly training the rest of bureaucracy in order to avoid the potential offense of some ill-tempered Miss or Mrs? What will it cost to set up additional commissions to monitor the behavior of bureaucrats and to process the necessary litigations against those who offend?

Look to Europe people, because this is exactly the place where Barack Obama and his progressive minions want us to land both emotionally and financially--prostrate to an all-powerful government excited to regulate all facets of our personal lives from the language we utter out of our mouths to the methane we exhaust out the other end.

h/t Protein Wisdom