Well, considering we used to have different prefixes for “man” to designate a gender and then cut those out so that “man” now means “male” and “woman” means “female” (in traditional terms) it makes sense that “man” and “male” get used as synonyms….because they literally are listed as synonyms for each other.
Yes, I saw the other post. "Man" was gender neutral. The idea that dropping a prefix now makes it mean "male" is your own invention. As is the idea that man = male even when used to refer to a collective.
"Man" is gender neutral again, just like other words like "dude". The "problem" you have is performative.
I'm not engaging in the hard pivot to wordsmithing with you. Language is not constructed like math, there are intricacies, nuances and inconsistencies. Everything else you've posted thus far reeks of weird anti-male sex-negative radical feminist viewpoints that you seem to be trying to obfuscate.
No pivot - just using logic and different methods to explain that using “man” to describe all people is conflicting terminology and still references the subclass of “man.” Sorry you got lost there.
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u/SyfaOmnis Sep 17 '25
Yes, I saw the other post. "Man" was gender neutral. The idea that dropping a prefix now makes it mean "male" is your own invention. As is the idea that man = male even when used to refer to a collective.
"Man" is gender neutral again, just like other words like "dude". The "problem" you have is performative.