[Tagging] Proposal to change key:man_made to key:human_made

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 20:14, nathan case <nathancase at outlook.com> wrote:

>
> Indeed, the Handbook of Nonsexist Writing suggests: "artificial, handmade,
> hand-built, synthetic, manufactured, fabricated, machine-made, and
> constructed" as options instead of man-made.


Out of those options, I personally think either "MANufactured" :-), or
"constructed" would be good choices.

Of course, as mentioned, what do we do with beaver dams & wasp (& any other
type of) nests, animal burrows & so on?

On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 00:42, Robert Delmenico <robert at rtbk.com.au> wrote:

>
> I don't think the use of 'man_made' offends women, but who am I to decide
> that as I am a adult male.
>

But I note that, despite there being at least a few ladies who subscribe to
this list (at least going by their user names!), none of them have yet
weighed into the discussion?

Thanks

Graeme
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