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Originally Posted by Jay Random
There's nothing silly about referring to people as people. There is something very silly about altering long-accepted terminology to accommodate a hypothetical case in which someone might feel excluded by a legalistically narrow reading of the etymology of the term.
(Tell me, when NASA sends probes into deep space, do you object that they are called ‘unmanned’? Is it sexist to use the term ‘chessmen’ to refer to the pieces including the queen?)
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OTOH, who does it harm to make a little change in terminology. Are people so soft they can't handle it?