• brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Man used to be synonymous with human. For instance, when people talk about humans in prehistory, they might use the phrase “early man.” In that context, the word “man” is gender neutral.

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      It still is neutral in that sense, but thst wasn’t the sense I was talking about.