'Man' Didn't Mean Male

As the Forces of Political Correctness spew gobbledygook at us, and correct us in public if we don't spew it ourselves, someone (a writer, of course) must point out that there was never an issue to begin with.

As with most policy pushes driven by female-hysteria, when you get right back to beginning of it all you find nothing.

'Man' used in such words as 'foreman', 'layman', 'freshman', 'congressman', it never specified one gender over another, it just meant the person in that role or position. Before the Forces of Political Correctness took over the dictionaries throughout the English-speaking world, the first definition of "man" was "member of the human race", the second specified a male member of that race.

In the rush to overcome the fabricated oppression of the past our beautiful language has been destroyed. Such abominations as "congresspeople" bomb our delicate ears. Often the offending 'man' has been dropped altogether as in the use of 'chair' to mean 'chairman'. The spot for the word 'chair' in the dictionary is already taken: it means the furniture we sit on.

Ignorant females, who think they know it all, or angry lesbians are not in the position to tell you what to do. They have no higher knowledge on your word-use, they occupy no position of higher authority. And they always get it wrong.