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>brave men risked their lives >men like them It wasn't just men: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Resnik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Resnik http:
by jaredhansen 15y ago
>brave men risked their lives
>men like them
It wasn't just men:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Resnik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Resnik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana_Chawla http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana_Chawla
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Clark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Clark
Language has power, and using "men" in this context makes invisible the contributions and bravery of these women and others like them. Sorry to seem PC, but it's important to get this stuff right if we want our kids to grow up in a better world.
- matthewcieplak 15y agoYou are being too PC. "Men" suffices for both genders.
- sprog 15y agoStop trolling this feminist garbage.
- verroq 15y agoThat's ridiculous. When people use men in this context, they refer to humanity as a whole. Don't confuse your lack of English understanding as being PC.
- jleader 15y agoSo "women" is a collective noun for a group of humans all of whom are female, and "men" is a collective noun for a group of humans who are some mixture of males and females. There's no collective noun for a group of humans all of whom are male? Doesn't that strike you as a bit asymmetric? I understand that "men" is sometimes used in the way you describe, but I believe that people who do so consider male the default gender of humans.
- maratd 15y agoBrevity is the soul of wit. You certainly lose accuracy, but honestly, nobody wants to read a wall of text. If you want to presume some sort of conspiracy sexist default supremacist undertone in what I wrote, fine, but I think that says more about you than about me.