Boxes have got to be ticked, tick the box, oh and remember to tick the box, all good now, everyone is happy , proceedure has been followed, rock spiders have not ticked the box, kids are now much safer. Oh, by the way, give me a pay rise, I’ve just created some more boxes to tick.
Nobody claims these procedures ensure the kids are perfectly safe. But these procedures most certainly do increase their safety.
Pretending its just red-tape ignores that initiatives like this, mandatory reporting, do make a real difference. It may only make a difference 1 in 1000 (or 10,000) times, but heh, if its less kids being abused I consider that well worth it.
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Normally I wouldn’t care about a gender neutral term. Power to inclusivity and all that.(the whole ruck debate meh)
But Batsmen now being refereed to as “Batters”?
It’s just not cricket and way too baseball 
Cmon a batsmen doesn’t have to be so blokey. Women can be batsmen too can’t they?
Well , no. You could have "batsmen and batswomen " if you prefer. But of all the things to get annoyed at, “batters” ain’t high on my list.
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I like the sound of batsbatsw.
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Dammit, too quick Wim.
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Yeah I’m sorry. But once I hear a commentator utter. “Batter up”
Yeah nah.
I actually like baseball too. It’s just not cricket
Truth is in the middle. No, it doesn’t really matter. Yes, it’s silly. I’m not sure what’s wrong with ‘batsmen’ for men and ‘batter’ or ‘batswoman’ for women. In fact, given the collective sense of the term, I’m even ok with women being referred to as ‘batsmen’ in the same sense that they are part of ‘mankind.’ Yeah, ‘batter up’ is cringe but let’s not catastrophise the topic.
I think a more important matter is the decision by the Darebin city council to exclude men from applying for the role of street sweeper.
It seems like the very same type of discrimination we all oppose and very much like the same policies that a fanatic would go ape droppings over if the victims were women.
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Third man will henceforth be known as “Third Person” and the term Nightwatchman will be replaced by “Security Guard”.
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Can you still bowl a maiden?
Or is that called an incel now?
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Why can’t the men be called batsmen/batsman, and the women can choose what they want to be called.
Why can’t they just do their own thing???
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I’ll still call you a batsman saucy. 
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Is this serious?
They wouldn’t be able to openly discriminate.
Just encourage under represented staff by their identity to apply and then apply suitable biases to hit targets/quotas in the interview stage.
Because unconsciously the role of street sweeper would always be a guy.
I wonder if job applicants get the memo though.
And I wonder how many jobs are advertising encouraging white men to apply where they are under represented? (And for that matter older or younger candidates when they are missing from demographics)
It’s PC madness I tell ya
Maybe the other street sweepers are sick of the sausage fest at morning tea?
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they’re* own thing
btw you can keep calling batters whatever you want. all that’s happened is a ctrl-h on the rules.
Pretty sure that the teaching and nursing professions have been trying to get more men to sign up for many years.
Whoops.
Do you see seek ads with them actually encouraging men from Anglo Saxon backgrounds to apply?
Because I aint(mind you I haven’t looked either!)
Edit
I actually googled it.
Consider including a statement in the advertisement that encourages people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from different cultural backgrounds and people with disabilities.
So there’s nothing attempting to counter biases in there except for indigenous, disabled people or “different” cultural backgrounds.
I think that is good except employers def do discriminate sadly on those things which is why it’s added by some
Anything that said women/young/old/men etc would be discrimination.
pretty sensationalist stuff there. let me guess - news dot com or daily mail?
don’t think it would have been a resolution at the last council meeting.
rather some grunt in hr mis-reading an email before writing the ad up, and probably currently getting an extremely stern talking-to in a microsoft teams call right now.
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