When is the mainstream media going to stop using terms like 'manhunt' and 'gunman'? They never use the female equivalent and there are plenty of alternatives that mean the exact same thing

Melohdy · 2026-03-06T10:15:39+00:00

True. You never hear of men demanding gender neutral language i.e. person-hunt or gunperson.

MonsterGirls4ever · 2026-03-06T13:50:14+00:00

I mean, if we really want to go by etymology, "man" used to be the gender neutral for adult, with were being the male and wif being the female.

So the wereman was the adult male human, and the wifman the adult female human.

And "girl" used to mean "child" while "boy" was "servant".

So going by the shift in language, males lost their childhood and their right to it and were assumed to be servants starting from a young age, while childhood, and the right to it, became female coded.

Sounds about right to me. Right in the "accurate to reality" sense, not in the "morally right" sense.

DentdeLion_ · 2026-03-06T08:51:07+00:00

If anything I could understand you pushing for more neutral language but I'm struggling to see the point in reinforcing a gender gap ?

Wylanderuk · 2026-03-06T14:30:19+00:00

Sorry but this the same fucking vein as "herstory" instead of history...

Current_Finding_4066 · 2026-03-06T08:34:15+00:00

Only good terms need to be not masculine.

BeepBeepYeah7789 · 2026-03-06T13:00:01+00:00

Old habits die hard, I guess.

MeasurementNice295 · 2026-03-06T15:59:26+00:00

Gamma Bias, look it up.

SidewaysGiraffe · 2026-03-06T15:18:49+00:00

When "he" stops being the default pronoun for a person of unknown gender, presumably. This isn't bigotry; just the way English works.

SheerFe4r · 2026-03-06T07:37:15+00:00

Uh oh, big drama

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