RE: Are Married Men "Husbands?" How About a New Term for a New Relationship?
July 1, 2015 at 7:15 pm
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2015 at 9:50 pm by Jenny A.)
(July 1, 2015 at 6:17 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Yes, equally. Both words reinforce the Christian ideal of the dominant man and the subservient woman. Wo-man = of man. Just saying the word repeats the lie of Eve coming out of Adam. I'm not uptight about it. But I think it's time our language grew with us.
That is incorrect with regard to man and woman, at least with regard to subservience, though it does have to do with gender roles. Man was originally the word for both adult human males and adult human females. There is an old English translation of Genesis that calls Adam and Eve men. Werman (weapon man) differentiated males, and wimman or wifman (weaving man) differentiated females and eventually vowel shifted to woman. The "wer" eventually disappeared from the language with the notable exception of werewolf. Wif eventually became wife.
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