[ExI] Gender-Neutral Side Note

[Jason Resch]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2025, 8:15 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> *> Lady Chairman.That used to be what we called female chairmen, before PC
>> nonsense infected everyone.*
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> *It could be argued that "Lady Chairman" is self-contradictory nonsense,
> unless you're talking about a hermaphrodite. How about Chairwoman? I admit
> that doesn't sound quite right but I think at least part of that is due to
> the fact that the word "woman" has two syllables but the word "man" only
> has one. *
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"Man" used to be seen as simply an abbreviated from of human or mankind. It
would be a lot simpler (and more unifying) if we returned to that.

That also has the benefit of emphasizeling our commonality as part of
mankind and humanity, rather than reflecting and focusing attention on our
(comparatively minor) differences.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/man

"From Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person,
man”), from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- m, from
Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“human being, man”). Doublet of Manu."

Jason
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