Daily Dinosaur Comics knows exactly why stupid people piss me off.

[theweaselking]

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[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Wait

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

You and I are wermannen?

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Genesis 2:23

"And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman, because she is taken out of Man."

I think this is the basis of the claim of sexism, rather than a mistaken understanding of etymology.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You've evidently never been to the Womyyiyn's Center at Carleton.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

And dare I mention "Herstory"?

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's a reliable book.

[jl-williams.livejournal.com]

In that you can always count on it to be bullshit, yes.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Not reliable, but has had a sizeable influence on our culture and language.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

The etymology of woman and man in Hebrew may procede thusly, but it is clear that in English such is not the case.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

I prefer the Norse one, where the first man and woman grow in a giant's armpit.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

I remember my Witchcraft prof told us she'd fail us on the spot if we ever used the word "Shawoman"

Shaman came from a completely different language.