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Thank you for highlighting the sexism built into the Portuguese language.
by stephengillie 10y ago
Thank 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".