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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Female mail carriers will always be a mailman to me. It's been a gender neutral term my entire life, and I refuse to pretend it's offensive.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

But don't you know that everything you do and say is sexist regardless of intent? Do understand that some of the attempt to change and challenge words is just demoralization.