The word Man is inherently confusing/sexist? Oh the huMANity!

no problems, after all this is a dabate forum I agree with you it isn't really worth debating, coming up with new terms for things that to me work, it seems like muddling the water and making commuication worse than it is already because some people take on an extreme that verges on the insane.
for example i remember this from english comp lit 1, the tracher (who happened to be female) considered it stupid that from the 60's on people promoted the idea of changing the useage of "his" if the person wasn't identified to thier. Not only is the idea of using thier for the gender neutral is confusing, it is also awkward since thier is more than one person in normal human useage
(i maybe misremembering about this, but i hope not)i also feel the idea of such things as chairman to chairperson,etc are rather silly, but i guess man is becoming more of a gender label than it used to beEdited by ReverendDG, : No reason given.