'Man' the word

[StoneFrog]

I'm no English student or anything, but one thing has bugged me is the term 'Man'; i don't know any single word that can be used as a gender neutral to refer to an individual person. After looking up the term man, it has historical meant that, as well as an adult male; why do we discredit the use of man to refer to an individual person as sexist?
Is it not sexist to use the word man to refer to a male adult, instead?

[Smyg]

Wait, man is sexist? Whoops.

[Dumb]

I don't see any reason why we can't just say "human" or "humankind" in the context the OP mentions. Granted, it's kind of unusual - and we all know how much we RevLefters run far, far away from anything odd or unusual.

[Lobotomy]

Do you mean "man" as in Man has always wondered about life on other planets, or Those are some dope ass brownies, man?

[Smyg]

'Cause if it's the latter, I'm in some serious sexist shit.

[EvilRedGuy]

They use "Man" in many roles, as for whole humanity getting called "Man" and then there are the position roles, fireman, policeman, etc. It is sexist you can view the usage in its history.

[StoneFrog]

Do you mean "man" as in Man has always wondered about life on other planets, or Those are some dope ass brownies, man?

first one, lol but i like the second one :laugh:

there is also the 'he' and 'she' things which i don't get either..

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

french is a sexist language

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

They use "Man" in many roles, as for whole humanity getting called "Man" and then there are the position roles, fireman, policeman, etc. It is sexist you can view the usage in its history.

This is quite language dependent though, and might be difficult to correct.

In Swedish for example, humanity and mankind is generally only referred to in feminine form.

Ideally all gender-specific terms ought to be abolished and replaced with adequate neutral ones, preferably neutral ones that doesn't sound as dumb, forced awkward as "hir" or those sort of strange combinations.

[EvilRedGuy]

Didn't Marx, Engels, Bakunin, Kropotkin, you know the whole 'gang use the neutral gender term "Ej" (or is it ey? dunno) anyways its because i read the danish version and they used "Høn" the equivalent for the english "Ej"

I got this "Ej" from another RevLeft user. :cool: