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

Matthew Woehlke mwoehlke.floss at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 15:50:45 UTC 2020


On 19/10/2020 18.46, Robert Delmenico wrote:
>> 'Not really, and "man_made" does not mean that it was made by males.'
> 
> Yes it does. Why would society also use women-made?

Because someone with a PC stick up their <redacted> decided to declare 
that "man made" meant "made by men" rather than "made by males" as used 
to be the case.

<tongue position="in cheek">
Besides, the correct solution is clearly to restore the original meaning 
of "man" to be gender neutral and to (re)introduce something else to 
mean "an adult male".
</tongue>

-- 
Matthew



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