Royal Canadian Navy to replace �seaman� in rank titles with gender-neutral term
Newsbot @ Tue Jul 28, 2020 1:55 am
Title: Royal Canadian Navy to replace �seaman� in rank titles with gender-neutral term
Category: Military
Posted By: Scape
Date: 2020-07-28 01:52:13
Canadian
Scape @ Tue Jul 28, 2020 1:55 am
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CDN_PATRIOT @ Tue Jul 28, 2020 4:09 am
The Royal Canadian Navy has fallen. Political correctness ruins another once-proud organization.
-J.
llama66 @ Tue Jul 28, 2020 8:32 am
Deckhand, Able Deckhand, Leading Deckhand?
raydan @ Tue Jul 28, 2020 9:04 am
Might as well close the Navy and send everybody home. 
BartSimpson @ Tue Jul 28, 2020 9:06 am
raydan raydan:
Might as well close the Navy and send everybody home.
Amen.
Zipperfish @ Tue Jul 28, 2020 9:25 am
Well at least we can say good by to the term discharged seaman.
BartSimpson @ Tue Jul 28, 2020 9:27 am
herbie @ Tue Jul 28, 2020 9:53 am
Start a decade long $30 million Public Commission to investigate what term to use instead. Mention the word 'sailor' every sentence, then choose "sea-person"......
So much for the old joke about submarines being long and black and full of...
DrCaleb @ Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:17 am
I was going to make the submarine joke that they were long, hard, and full of seamen; but it's not true. They are all in drydock. 
Scape @ Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:58 pm
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
Well at least we can say good by to the term discharged seaman.
Oh I think it will peter out.
BartSimpson @ Tue Jul 28, 2020 1:46 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
I was going to make the submarine joke that they were long, hard, and full of seamen; but it's not true. They are all in drydock.
And awaiting the breakers.
