• bouh@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I don’t know about English, but in French in the 19th century men did enforce the use of homme (men) instead of humain (human) in the déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen, and in the language, because they did want to segregate women. It was a purposeful and deliberate decision.

    I am convinced it’s exactly the same in English.