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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Post (www.smbc-comics.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/comicstrips

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Realistically, using "man" in this context absolutely does carry a male defaultness to it because we don't use a different term for "male post-person".

I disagree, we don't speak Latin either, but many of our current words are derived from Latin words, and those were introduced indirectly through French from the Norman invasion, but it's not like we're going to throw out all Latin roots because they no longer apply.

I'm fine with evolving our language, but I think it's silly to just throw out etymology and historical context entirely. I think "man" can have multiple meanings and be used as a gender neutral suffix, I'd never consider someone toxic for using it (unless they're just being as asshole about it).