On Secretly Gendered Language
Word Matters
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What Is the Most Commonly Used Word to Define Man Than Woman?
The word affable is far more often used to describe men than women. The word ditsey, which means 'betrayed' or a person who forgets about how absent minded they are, can be applied to women too. There's an unspoken agreement that we refer to even as an a, more often as agriculture,. We've sort of decided collectively that this word really applies only in one direction and it doesn't make any sense at all.
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