Thank you for the explanation. I said it was a guess, and it wasn't too far off; either way it's literal patriarchy embedded into the language. I wonder if peop

Thank you for the explanation. I said it was a guess, and it wasn't too far off; either way it's literal patriarchy embedded into the language. I wonder if people's authoritative tone (and downvotes) would change if they discovered that there was also another language where the distinction was meaningful but based on different reasoning.