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5/19/01

All men are created women...

So I was watching the FoxNews interrupt, babble, and scream at each other show, Hannity and Colmes, because Colmes's evil overlord and master Eyebrows commanded me to do so. One issue they choose to gibber about without resolution was gender neutrality in government documents. I'll quickly sum it up so we can move on to what I feel is a totally unique yet ultimately kickass solution.

Does the word "men" really include males and females or not? Those in favor of leaving the Constitution how it is now say that in things like "all men are created equals" men refers to mankind or humanity, so you don't need to make it "all men and women are created equal." Assume for a moment that it does. If men includes men and women, then what just means men?

Basic math:
Men = Men + Women.
If A = A + B, then B = 0 because A = A.
I think that last one may be where we got this all men are created equal bullshit in the first place. If Men = Men and Men = Men + Women then Women = 0.
Maybe I see why feminists want to change the language of the Constitution. That whole Equals Zero implication isn't very flattering.
Seriously, if the name of the set is the same as the name of one of the subsets and that subset doesn't include the entire set then you've messed up your naming conventions. This is not politics, this is logic. Take seventh grade algebra.
Since it doesn't make much sense to have one word mean everyone and the same word mean roughly half of those people, something should probably be changed.

So here's the unique idea. This is an opportunity that we really need to jump on. If we look at the words "Men" and "Women" from a language deconstruction standpoint we can see that Wo- is most likely originally a modifying prefix of Man and Men. Wo-man, Wo-men. What I propose is that we officially make Man represent anyone male or female and Men represent multiple people of either gender. That way "all men" will really include everyone that it should. BUT, if we do this we need to establish a new term to represent the gender that was previously referred to as "men." To absolutely eliminate any sort of built-in gender bias in the english language is should be a new two letter modifying prefix we can tack onto Man and Men to be the equivelent male terms of Woman and Women. This way not only do all the government documents get to become truly inclusive without changing their wording, but we can keep terms like fireman, policemen, etc. Firepeople sounds like something out of D&D.

There are 676 two-letter combinations to choose from, but we need to eliminate "Wo" and "Hu" because they're already taken. This is a truly unique opportunity for all of us __men! (You know who I mean just until we get a permanent fix) We get to pick what our gender will be called. We could come up with something really cool sounding.
I say we put it to a vote.

(I apologize for the political and societal nature of today's update. I promise to talk about monkeys for the rest of the week.)