A bit
knew I should have checked first!! 
Now corrected
I still stand by that Firefighters has and is used more than she realises.
The end to Fireman Sam?
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A bit
knew I should have checked first!! Now corrected
I still stand by that Firefighters has and is used more than she realises.
Don't know m8 but take me back to the 90's.
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But isn't Sam a gender neutral name. Why would THE COMMISSIONER OF THE GOD DAMM LONDON FIRE BRIGADE naturally assume Sam is a bloke??????
There are, there’s even a bursary specifically aimed at getting men into nursing too. (Although admittedly it seems more like a token gesture with the amount).
https://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/male-trainees-receive-funding-despite-bursary-scrap
There’s been a discussion about the lack of male teachers for years too.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.tel...w-can-we-get-more-men-to-become-teachers/amp/
It’s not as one sided as some like to believe.
Getting more people interested (especially from groups that are under represented) means there’s a much greater pool to pick from, which usually increases the quality.
While there may well be gender related variables much of the issue is just people don’t consider the job to be something they can/would like to do. Showing them that they may in fact enjoy it, and that there’s no reason for them not to is a way of increasing applications. That doesn’t mean discriminating against non minorities which many appear to think is the only option.
How deep real gender variable run is an entirely different question. Take teaching for example. It used to be a majority male profession, now it’s majority female. Why? Is it because men inherently don’t like to teach young people? Presumably not, as they used to do it. Or is it because the perception of the job has changed? Change the perception and you may well get more interest from men again. The same goes for other professions dominated by one gender.
As for fireman Sam. He’s both a fireman and a firefighter. He is a fireman (singular) but has a job as a firefighter, unless Sam is short for Samantha, in which case she is a firewoman and a firefighter.
Oh if only!
“You're hot, we’ll make you wet”...
For millenia, "man" meant "person" in various Germanic languages. It's only in the last few decades that the meaning has been changed in English to be explicitly male (which is perfect for misleading people into thinking that women were excluded in the past when they weren't). The word "woman" is much more than a few decades old, so of course it uses the meaning that the word "man" had for millenia and not the one it's had for the last few decades at most.
Old English was better in this respect:
man = person, sex neutral.
wif = female.
were = male.
So if you wanted to refer to a person's sex for some reason, you just formed a compound word - wifman or wereman as required. "wifman" is a bit clumsy to say (a common problem with compound words) so over a bit of time people smoothed it out into "woman" for convenience.
I use "firefighter" anyway because I generally prefer ungendered language. But in this case, "fireman" is fine because the character is a man. It's a shame that sex and "race" are considered so important, because they're not. Sex is irrelevant in almost all situations and "race" isn't even a real thing. I was hoping that we were moving away from the silly unfairness and I think we were for a while, but we're moving towards it all the more now that sexism, racism and other irrational prejudices have become so fashionable again.
Technically it isn't (the -'or' ending is masculine). In practice, it is.
But the point stands - there's a "best actress" award at the Oscars. Which is for actresses, obviously.
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Fireman Sam one day starts to identifies as a woman and decides to go through "the change"
To become Firefighter Samantha happy ever after.
To become Firefighter Samantha happy ever after.
Handling vaginas and watching the women screaming in pain for hours on end, who needs encouragement for that?
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Fireman Sam has more worries than what his title should be. Like why does a small village of about 20 inhabitants have a major fire every few days?
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Sam is starting the fires to create overtime and the locals are in on it as an insurance scam. The fire service should be privatised to stop this sort of public sector abuse.
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That would explain why all the businesses never seem to have any customers but stay open.
Obviously, you've never seen the business end in action?
What's that saying...
"it's like watching your favorite pub burn down!"
