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The author is brazillian, so english is most likely not his first language. Linguistic and cultural trends and sensitivities are not the same everywhere.
by TheCoreh 10y ago
The author is brazillian, so english is most likely not his first language. Linguistic and cultural trends and sensitivities are not the same everywhere.
- stephengillie 10y agoThank you for highlighting the sexism built into the Portuguese language.
- StavrosK 10y agoActually, the sexism is all English. Other languages have gender-neutral words for the English "man", such as the greek "anthropos", human. That's the word that sentence would be translated to, and "human" encompasses all genders. I don't speak Portuguese, but it's not inconceivable that they'd use "humanidade" in this context, rather than "homem".