Indeed, and that's why the usage is sexist
I think Holmes agrees that calling male people 'man' is sexist, but calling people 'man' is not.
When I say "male normative", do you understand what that means?
I know what male means and know what what normative means, so unless either word is being used peculiarly...
Because it should be impossible to look at the usage of "Man" to refer to all humanity and not see the very sexist assumptions about humanity and the role of women that are loaded into that usage.
I appreciate that it is sexist that the word for person became the name for males. It isn't sexist to call all 'humanity' man, but perhaps it is other way round. What solution do you propose? Perhaps we should start calling people wepman and wifman for specifics and 'man' for 'person'? Or should we keep man as male and stick with person for 'human'?