[ExI] Gender-Neutral Side Note

[John Clark]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*>> 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.*
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*It would certainly not be more unifying, half the human race would feel
insulted and I'm sure would make their displeasure known. As for "simpler",
the word "mankind" contains 7 letters but "human" only needs 5.  *


*John K Clark*



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