On Gender-neutral language:
The English language is, and historically has been, gender neutral. The term "man" comes from the Old English word "mann" a gender neutral expression. "Woman", originally "wífman" is specifying what type of man the person is. And while the word "man" alone has come to take the masculine meaning (dropping the beginning to "werman", the suffix "-man" remains, as it always has, gender neutral. A fireman is a person who fights fires, a mailman is a person who delivers mail, a woman is a person of the female gender. The only remotely sexist thing about the word "man" is the word itself. Any use of it as a suffix ties back past its use as a masculine entity.
Words that I admit to be sexist, but are acceptable to me in common use:
- Hysterical
