I'm warning you in advance that this will be a very short post because I have to go to sleep soon. Anyway, have you ever noticed that whenever you have to select your gender on, say, a website to create an account, the one originally selected is male? Without exception. I honestly have never seen an instance when female was selected. There's not even a dubious excuse for it. I mean, female comes first in the alphabet. It's clearly just an example of all the sexist attitudes that still exist.
There are many similar instances of the same idea. For example, when talking about a postal worker, one usually refers to her/him (Notice how that looks unfamiliar in that order?) as a mailMAN. Mailman seems to include men and women, but if anyone said mailWOMAN, it would never refer to a man. Also, note the her/him example. Always, things like this are phrased him/her, him or her, or he or she. Each of these alone you could perhaps dismiss, but it's a recurring trend.
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