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This is just taking “politically correct” to far. It’s like saying “Firemen” or “one small step for man..”. The context of “man” or “men” is obviously “person
by codeddesign 7y ago
This is just taking “politically correct” to far. It’s like saying “Firemen” or “one small step for man..”. The context of “man” or “men” is obviously “person” or “people”
- dragonwriter 7y ago> This is just taking “politically correct” to far. It’s like saying “Firemen” or “one small step for man..”. The context of “man” or “men” is obviously “person” or “people” Er, no, it's not. In fact, in the popular “one small step for man” quote (“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”), the intended phrasing was “a man”, it referenced the speaker (Neil Armstrong), a specific man (not a person of unknown and unspecified gender), and was contrasted with “mankind” which had the general sense.
- isodude 7y agoHow does that quote relate to "repo men" exactly? Wikipedia describes it as a profession at least. Wouldn't several Repo man become Repo men? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Man https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Man
- rootusrootus 7y agoThe dictionary has one definition of "man" being "a human being of either sex; a person". It's perfectly valid.
- Youden 7y agoIf we're bringing dictionaries into this, the OED explicitly labels that definition as obsolete outside a few specific usages (e.g. "every man", "half man, half beast", "man or beast"). Now if you were speaking in 1597 you'd be correct. The non-obsolete version is "An adult male human being, and senses principally based on this".
- isodude 7y agoDon't forget the new addition: "Oh man, what did you do?"
- dominotw 7y ago> “one small step for man..”. From the same magazine. "Neil Armstrong's One Small Misstep" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ezzmzj/what-neil-armstrong-actually-said-when-he-stepped-on-the-moon https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ezzmzj/what-neil-armstron...
- kelnos 7y agoMy understanding is that the preferred term now is "fire fighter", though I do hear "fireman" on occasion.
- Smithalicious 7y agoDidn't Armstrong mean to say "one small step for a man", "a man" referring to himself? Surely even at maximum political correctness, nobody would object to saying that Neil Armstrong is, in fact, a man?