Originally posted by Adam Grimes
Dademon is laughing his ass off at a joke made at your expense. Don't ruin his fun with your coping. 👇
This is a true statement. However, I don't take sides in their games but I can be entertained but their funny insults.
Originally posted by Robtard
The word does come from a time when women were either not allowed or discouraged from higher learning, so yes, it probably has sexist roots. Denoting "inexperienced" and "man/male".Does the idea of the word "men" being removed and replaced with something gender/sex neutral bother you so?
Well, this is an easy issue to "debunk."
"Freshman" or "Freshmen" is a portmanteau of "fresh" and "man." The word "man" in this use is the same kind of "man" used in reference to humans such as "mankind."
"Man" in this use refers to the original use of which is "a human being regardless of sex or age." An example of this would be "One small step for man..."
It is the Middle English use. The old English use was spelled "mann." And "wer" was used to refer to male humans.
So when the political correctness was starting to just grow up in the US, people started to stop using the Middle English usage and, instead, out of pure ignorance, replacing the suffix "man" with "person."
To put it into perspective, they replaced the word blue with the word blue. haha
This is just another ignorant self-righteous crusade. Most people realize that words with the suffix "man" are really references to "person" and just cannot differentiate in their mind that English is a bastardized language with these things called...homographs. You know, those things we learned about in second grade?
Edit - And it took less than 20 seconds to google a source. See, I'm not a raving madman (damn, I'm clever).
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=man