• Gork@lemm.ee
    29·
    22 hours ago

    Time for Womanhattan

    But that still has the word man in it

    Wopersonhattan

    But that has the gender term son in it

    Woperchildhattan

      • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
        5·
        10 hours ago

        That doesn’t sound right…

        From what I remember “woman” comes from “wifman”, which is a compound of “wif” and “man”, and back then “man” still refered to male and female persons, and “wer” and “wif” were male and female persons respectively.

          • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
            6·
            9 hours ago

            except that “man” wasn’t gendered at the time.

            But I included that, didn’t I?

            and back then “man” still refered to male and female persons

            Or do you mean rather than male and female, I should have said persons regardless of gender? I guess that makes more sense.