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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Technically speaking you are right. But that's not the gist of the comment I'm replying to. By the time man was used to refer to mankind, it was "male as default" that got it there and not "oh what's that gender neutral word from old English"
gpt
Yep. It's obvious when we look at the fact women had to fight to be considered people since "mankind" was synonymous to "person", and a "person" could only be a white man for centuries.