It’s a Looney Tunes meme. Perhaps you’re seeing issues that aren’t really issues.
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norimee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I guess women do not exist in literature.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
FelixCress@lemmy.world 4 months ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 months ago
Unironic circular reasoning patriarchy.
TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Man used to be used the way we use the word “human” in modern English, with there being modifiers to signify male or female. At some point we just dropped modifiers for male and decided “man” meant male. However man is still used as a general term for people. There’s definitely patriarchal connotations to it but that’s why you still see it.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 months ago
Yes, which is why the appropriate response to someone pointing out the discrepancy is “you’re right, I may or may not care enough to do something about my own casual usage of the language” not being a condescending ass linking a definition that everyone knows because that wasn’t the point of bringing it up.
samus12345@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s an outdated term, but still commonly used. I prefer “humanity,” myself.
flicker@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I assume this is because Daffy identifies as male.
Also I’m genuinely shocked how half a second of looking at a duck under “No God” immediately gave me the impression of Hunter S. Thompson.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It’s the glasses and the thousand-yard stare into the sun
pennomi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Man” in this context means “mankind”, not “male”.