[Racehorse]

Actually, as to “woman” and “man”, I am given to pointing out that in Anglo-Saxon, “man” was the equivalent of the Greek “anthropos”, meaning, “human being without regard to sex or gender”. The Anglo-Saxon equivalent of “gyne” was, of course, “woman”. There was, however, an Anglo-Saxon equivalent of “andros”, “wapman”. Of course, “woman” contains “man”, women and wapmen are the two sorts of men.

My dead cats and dogs are wondering why you posted this message.

"women and wapmen are two sorts of men."

This thread is pretty much hijacked . . . by you. What are wapmen? How many are there? At least two, right?

[Racehorse]

How many sorts of men are we?

[The_Reader_David]

You might read married21's post to which I was replying. My reply was a propos to a matter raised in that post, about the parallel absurdity of gender language in academe. I will leave you to brush up on your Greek and looking up andros and anthropos to figure out who wapmen are if you can't by rereading my post.