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As a side note, I’ve also literally never seen anyone say “men artists” or “men writers”. What gives?

Patriarchy. Society defaults to the male. That’s not unique to the English-speaking world, of course.

By this I meant that people more often say something like “male nurse” than “man nurse”, but I agree, fuck the patriarchy.

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Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Because male nurses are uncommon and in that specific circumstance female is the default that most people assume.

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- yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That doesn’t really answer why “woman” can be used this way but “man” can’t:
  
  Female writer: ✅
  
  Woman writer: ✅
  
  Male nurse: ✅
  
  Man nurse: ❌
  
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  - lena@gregtech.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah that’s what I meant by my reply, thanks for clarifying
    
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