Admittedly nit-picking and out-of-context, but it's important, everywhere, every time: "Extensive research examined the implications of using the word "man" ge

Admittedly nit-picking and out-of-context, but it's important, everywhere, every time: "Extensive research examined the implications of using the word "man" generically to refer to both males and females, as in the word "mankind", and it was found that it elicited mental imagery that tended to focus more on males than females. The conclusions were that the so-called "generic" senses ofthe word were subconsciously contaminated by the male sense of the word. The result: women were getting lost in our language." - Kerry A. Bodine, "C'mon Guys: This Way to a Study on Language and Sexism"