| Submit your comments on this article |
| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Father and Mother nomenclature deemed archaic by DOS |
| 2011-01-08 |
| The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says. “The words in the old form were ‘mother’ and ‘father,’” said Brenda Sprague, deputy assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services. "They are now ‘parent one’ and ‘parent two.’" A statement on the State Department website noted: “These improvements are being made to provide a gender neutral description of a child’s parents and in recognition of different types of families.” The statement didn't note if it was for child applications only. The State Department said the new passport applications, not yet available to the public, will be available online soon. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #16 Carbon unit IDs Now what do you have against non-Carbon life forms? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-01-08 23:03 |
| #15 No numbers, sillies! Spousal unit [name] and spousal unit [name]. Oh, wait. Who gets to go first? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-01-08 21:50 |
| #14 Nu-Passport* 2084 Carbon unit IDs (place comma between IDs. order your carbon unit IDs in any order you like or random order) *Only given out to those who have advanced in the learning of the holy Gaia enough to be allowed to travel. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-01-08 21:00 |
| #13 parental unit |
| Posted by: Skunky Glins**** 2011-01-08 20:03 |
| #12 How about pitcher and catcher? Thing 01 and Thing 02? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-01-08 18:49 |
| #11 Stupid idiots. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-01-08 18:21 |
| #10 THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN (To JS/07/M/378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) ...He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard. W.H. Auden 1940 The most chilling poem I ever read. |
| Posted by: Alan Cramer 2011-01-08 14:24 |
| #9 I feel like a number I'm not a number I'm not a number Dammit I'm a man I said I'm a man /Bob Seger |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-01-08 12:50 |
| #8 Great. Now Parent Three can sue for discrimination. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2011-01-08 10:58 |
| #7 Another step down the road that in the end will leave us faceless, nameless, numbered wards of the state. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-01-08 10:28 |
| #6 You would think they would have eliminated TRUENAME, which, like nobody but Microsoft engineers ever used. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-08 10:00 |
| #5 Well young State Department pollywog, how about...sperm donor and egg donor? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-01-08 09:16 |
| #4 Of course this now implies that Parent Two is somehow inferior, 'follows', or is 'second class' to Parent One. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-01-08 08:57 |
| #3 "These improvements are being made to provide a gender neutral description of a child's parents and in recognition of different types of families." Why don't they just SAY... gays and lesbians who adopt children? If it is so righteous, why can we not speak of it freely? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-01-08 08:39 |
| #2 Spare the rod... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-01-08 03:01 |
| #1 There are obviously bureaucrats who aren't being kept busy enough with real work. I see a target for budget cuts. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2011-01-08 02:25 |