also, the term for it was literally in the post, man of science, so male scientist is basically male man of science
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FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 months ago
This has to be bait or something. The fake fact aside, who would be against gendered professions and simultaneously advocating to gender a profession?
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Aux@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I hereby declare meself an alpha male man of sciences.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Not to be confused with the dude who read your Zoobooks and Nat Geo magazines while on his way to leave them in your mailbox.
The male mail man of science.
Frogodendron@beehaw.org 7 months ago
A bilingual person would to a certain extent. I’ve noticed a tendency of English-speaking societies to gradually eliminate the gender from professions, while the languages with grammatical gender, like Russian or German, tend to incorporate previously missing feminine suffixes to the words that previously were male-gendered only.
Though your question (a rhetorical one I guess) regards English only, I suppose, and then yes, the combination is weird.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Yeah there is a lot of discussion about it in Germany but generally lawyers, professors, and doctors had to fight for their feminine terminology to exist so any attempt to take it away now would be met with severe backlash.
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Also, why couldn’t they call her a “woman of science?”