World gone mad!

[winjim]

😄

No it's not, but nice try!

I searched for 'women' on the Sainsbury's website and I got 193 toiletries, 79 medicines, one magazine and a 'small appliance'.

 

[mudsticks]

Maybe to some product names , I'll have a think..

But at least we seem to have moved away from all domestic appliances, and household products being marketed solely at women..

I'm old enough to remember such carp as "Hands that do dishes, can be as soft as your face" etc.

Sadly we seem to have regressed on the girls / boys, toys / clothes distinction, since I was a kid..

Progress is rarely linear, unfortunately.

 

[mudsticks]

I searched for 'women' on the Sainsbury's website and I got 193 toiletries, 79 medicines, one magazine and a 'small appliance'.

I'm no expert here, but i believe there are other websites that you need to visit, if you want to get a 'woman' delivered to you door Jim.. 🙄

 

[mudsticks]

I prefer these. 😊

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They look good enough to eat, right enough, but the coating looks suspiciously like carob..

Not certain how I'd feel about that ..

 

[matticus]

I searched for 'women' on the Sainsbury's website

Do you have enough reward points to buy one though?

Actually I was thinking more like this:
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/mrs-elswood-haimisha-cucumbers-670g
But I don't think they are female figures, merely a female brand. So not quite there yet ...

 

[Xipe Totec]

I prefer these. 😊

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That's much more like it. 'Gingerbread Gimps' makes it so much easier for everyone!

And who's going to get upset about that?

 

[winjim]

Do you have enough reward points to buy one though?

Actually I was thinking more like this:
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/mrs-elswood-haimisha-cucumbers-670g
But I don't think they are female figures, merely a female brand. So not quite there yet ...

Have a look at Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to see how those sort of brand images can be problematic

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Objection! The term “human” also contains the gendered term man.

Mildly interesting factoid: before the word ‘man’ came to be used for male adults it simply meant adult human being, either male or female.

 

[BoldonLad]

Mildly interesting factoid: before the word ‘man’ came to be used for male adults it simply meant adult human being, either male or female.

Effectively, it still does, in words like “mankind”, Doesn’t it?

But, my comment was joking.

 

[mudsticks]

Mildly interesting factoid: before the word ‘man’ came to be used for male adults it simply meant adult human being, either male or female.

But even if it were taken to mean that once upon a time, it would have been in a time well before females were ever regarded as fully equal adult human beings, or treated as such, so the 'supposed' gender neutrality of the language wouldn't really translate to any useful neutrality in life..

I think I need to go for a run ....

 

[Ian H]

Person contains the gendered term son. That is not acceptable in a tolerant, diverse society; make sure you don't use it again and replace it with a neutral term like human ...

You can add dodgy etymology to your list of talents.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Effectively, it still does, in words like “mankind”, Doesn’t it?

But, my comment was joking.

Yes, exactly. And manslaughter.

I got the joke, that’s why I added my intervention as a mere mildly interesting factoid and not some pedantic correction.

 

[Ian H]

Mildly interesting factoid: before the word ‘man’ came to be used for male adults it simply meant adult human being, either male or female.

Which highlights how it has been co-opted to reinforce the norms of a patriarchal society.

 

[mudsticks]

As normal, f**k all to say but use a Hundred words doing it.

Can you tell us yet, why gingerbread 'person' is so problematic to you though??

Words of one syllable will be fine, if you prefer 👍🏼

 

[glasgowcyclist]

But even if it were taken to mean that once upon a time, it would have been in a time well before females were ever regarded as fully equal adult human beings, or treated as such, so the 'supposed' gender neutrality of the language wouldn't really translate to any useful neutrality in life..

I think I need to go for a run ....

Man was a neutral term for adult humans, the words wer and wif were used to denote the male and female genders but gradually wer was replaced by man to mean what it does today. The wer part still lives on in werewolf though.