Now man has been around for however many millions of years right, and when I say that of course you understand ‘man’ to include women as well. Maybe not? Well that’s because some people change their language and taste to reflect the rise in feminist and racial sensitivities—a well intentioned if condescending effort to acknowledge other peoples existence. But in essence, it’s just changing accepted standards so as not to offend anyone.
For that reason, I’ll skip changing the generic ‘he’ to become the ungrammatical ‘they,’ or changing words like ‘man-hole’ to ‘person-hole’. Some people, I kid you not, change ‘all the King's men’ to ‘all the Monarch's support-persons.’ So you can take it as red that when I say him or her or even man, I of course mean her or hers or woman as well. Wat a clumsy language English is!
My style also, you’ll notice, doesn’t follow the moral code: ‘if it may offend someone, don’t say it’.
So at times u may disagree with what I have to say, you may not like some aspects of the world as I see it—but you can be assured that my words will not be restrained so as not to offend.
You have been warned! ;)
Kites rise highest against the wind. - Winstone Churchhill
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