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Or you could see it as man + (something) -- i.e. better than man. It really depends on how you take a normal word and assign an agenda to it.
by abdisalan 7y ago
Or you could see it as man + (something) -- i.e. better than man. It really depends on how you take a normal word and assign an agenda to it.
- shantly 7y agoDitto "man" and "he" being used when the sex of the person in question isn't known, or as a poetic stand-in for "human"—the usual complaint about that is that it implies maleness is "normal" at the expense of women but it could just as easily be seen as erasing what's distinctive about maleness, at its expense and in favor of women, who get their own dedicated words that aren't multi-purposed and also used to refer to men in some cases. Just a matter of perspective who's harmed by it (if you take anyone as being harmed).