And speaking of Jefferson, the word "man", in modern usage anyway, is the form for the species as well as for the gender. Just like dogs -- it covers both sides unless you have reason to make the distinction. Some folks who don't read dictionaries and boring stuff like that have attributed gender bias to this usage, but we're gonna have to come up with a lot of new words if we can't use the existing generics because they also and separately are used to point to a gender.

God, I'm a thread creep! It's Midchuck's fault...

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