Sexist language that I personally cannot stand

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11. Unfortunately English is not the best language for #1

I will often use they as a gender neutral term even when the implied plurality is incorrect.

But there is no easy substitute for man in the sense of meaning human. E.G., manned spacecraft. What would suffice to rip the gender specific term? Human occupied spacecraft? Or the horrible humaned spacecraft?

I think that our language has to evolve to accommodate these social changes. I would be an early adopter.

On the other hand, some people take it to utterly silly extent. The word, history has nothing gender specific in its etymology. It's ignorant to coin a word herstory which clearly does have a gender specific origin. That's just stupidity.

So where does one start? As one who sees this as a bias, I do my best. But sometimes the language fails me and I fall into common vernacular. What are we to do?