Has political correctness gone too far (especially during the winter season)?

[Bacon King]

I'd like to point out that the Washington state law doesn't force anybody to use gender neutral terms, and it doesn't ban words like penmanship. The posted link is a gratuitous overreaction bordering on absurd hyperbole.

In WA it's the law for statute to be gender neutral unless a specification of gender is intended. Which makes sense even if you aren't a feminist, because laws are supposed to be exact and specific. However, this literally means that it'd potentially be a legally valid argument, for example, for a female police officer to claim that "I don't have to follow [law] because it only refers to policemen, it specifies gender so legally it's only intended to apply to men!" Even when changing words where that isn't so much a concern, though, literally the only thing it changes is the word something is referred to in the state's laws. When you make a big deal about this you really make a big deal about nothing much at all.