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[Loud Whispers]

Did you contact Google about correcting that?

Nah, not bothered by it enough to care. Found it quite funny though.

[scriver]

Many Western countries actually have it as a point of law that women cannot commit rape and that it is a strictly male crime.

The definition is correct in the region where Loud Whispers lives, and not for reasons of semantics.

The legal definition is not the end-all-be-all definition, though.

[Graknorke]

I totes think we should go back to wereman and wyfman (or whatever other variants upon either word both have 'man' in but have some other letters in the word).

[Vector]

Yeoman and woman?

[Loud Whispers]

Dibs on human.

[Bauglir]

Yeah, that is something that needs to change. Though, since there are contexts where it matters, we cannot simply dispense with gender-specific nouns and just go to "human".

[Vector]

I mean... why can't we say "humankind?"  Etc.

[XXSockXX]

Seriously, English speakers have no right to complain about gender-specific nouns, there barely are any compared to other languages. Imagine you had to talk about "rapistresses and rapists" to be politically correct. 

[Angle]

Reminds me of David Brins uplift universe - In that series, he had "man" as the generic term for human, while "Mel" and "Fem" were the terms for a specific gender.

[Loud Whispers]

Yeah, that is something that needs to change. Though, since there are contexts where it matters, we cannot simply dispense with gender-specific nouns and just go to "human".

No, as in I was suggesting we replace male context of man and replace it with human. Then there'd be no conflict over man...kind.

[Graknorke]

So... your father would always be the melman?

[Owlbread]

Working with sex offenders runs in my family and many of them are female, or became abusers due to sexual abuse carried out by their mothers.

[Bauglir]

I mean... why can't we say "humankind?"  Etc.

Oh, yeah, that is a better way to go for that sort of thing. I meant there are contexts like dating where gender-specific nouns have relevance and "male" and "female" are likely to come off as clinical or dehumanizing, although then again if we're hypothesizing better language structures anyway there's no particular reason to keep either of those objections as valid, I suppose.

[Nadaka]

http://news.yahoo.com/video/outrage-over-forced-sterilization-female-150136080.html

Women in prisons are being forced into sterilization, given the racial bias in conviction and sentencing outcomes, this may constitute a literal genocide in America.

[Kansa]

http://news.yahoo.com/video/outrage-over-forced-sterilization-female-150136080.html

Women in prisons are being forced into sterilization, given the racial bias in conviction and sentencing outcomes, this may constitute a literal genocide in America.

The comments on that page are just terrible...