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You can't think of the word "person"?

• nommm-nommm 11y ago
  Doesn't have the same effect/meaning. "Term" was the wrong word - "Expression" is more of what I meant. "Man up" doesn't have the same connotations as "person up." (For example)
  • copsarebastards 11y ago
    I agree on "man up" versus "person up", but "bigger person" has exactly the same connotations as "bigger man". To be clear here, I'm not offended by your statement. I think communicating using common idioms which happen to contain a gender word isn't sexist, and quibbling over gendered language like that just drives real sexism underground. I'm talking about it purely from a writing perspective. Looking at it more, I wouldn't have used either phrase, to be honest. I'd have gone with something like "It's harder to admit you screwed up and become a better person" (drop the euphemisms and draw a dichotomy between easy/hard).
    • nommm-nommm 11y ago
      Terms that connote power/prestige/respect are terms that also connote masculinity. There's no "happen to contain" it isn't happenstance. No quibbling here; Language matters a lot. (For what it is worth the language terminology brainfart on my part was probably due to the several pints I had ingested before writing that ..)