• froh42@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    There was this weird guy around here who claimed women are 100% man - they have been made out of a man’s rib or so.

    And a lot of people believed this guy.

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      If you look at the history of the word “man” from it’s origin it was originally a gender neutral term. You had to append a modifier (were or wif) on it to specify gender. Over time this eroded and people stopped using “wereman” to mean masculine people and just started using the default phrase that meant everybody but sorta kept “wifman” and changed the pronunciation.

      So if you peel back the history women are indeed 100% man because everyone is a man.

      Also in the category of gender neutral once : “Girl” used to just meant “child” and “boy” meant something along the line of “young ruffian”.