Fiddling While NYC Burns: Hochul’s ‘Salesman’ Ban
Cabbies are being robbed and beaten to death, kids are destroying businesses because they are offended that extra sauce costs more, some dope shot up a supermarket simply because people of color work and shop there and a McDonald’s worker was shot and killed over some cold french fries — and Gov. Hochul’s big announcement is that we can no longer call someone a “salesman” in state law (“It’s ‘man’ overboard in woke NY purge,” Aug. 19).
I’m sure that’s going to correct everything wrong with New York.
What a great job you are doing there, Hochul. I hope your stay in the governor’s mansion is short. It certainly hasn’t been sweet.
George Nellen
Brooklyn
Hochul signed a new law banning the word “salesman” from state law. I’m sure that our legislators worked very hard at getting the wording exactly right so that we would speak and think in the approved manner.
While they were hard at work, the crime wave that they unleashed on our state continues without even a word of concern from the same people.
Our paid representatives are only concerned with woke virtue-signaling, while allowing our state to deteriorate every day. It’s our fault if we don’t remove these idiots from office by voting them out. It will take a long time to repair the damage they have done.
Robert DeCandia
New Hyde Park
Let me get this straight:
Our non-elected governor is worrying about gender terms while criminals are walking free.
I don’t care if you are a Republican or a Democrat: You cannot vote for this moron. It is now time to put your safety and well-being before party.
Philip Vallone
Ossining
In the attempt to be gender-neutral, this doesn’t solve the problem — for “salesperson” implies masculinity, as does “salesman.” If it’s a woman who is doing the selling, will it be “salesperdaughter? (Even “woman” includes a “man” in it.)
Perhaps if you pluralize it to “salespeople” that might solve the problem. But what if you’re dealing with only one individual who is doing the selling?
By the same token, the name of Bizet’s famous opera “Carmen” should be changed to “Carpeople.” See how absurd this gets?
Jonathan Dzik
The Bronx