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Palestinian town of Jericho names street after US soldier who set himself on fire
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Airmen. He wasn’t a soldier.
Airman, not plural
Airperson, not gendered.
Airbeing, not specied.
Airbender, not avatar.
Air, not solid.
Nair, not hair.
Also, this is the most Reddit I have seen come from Lemmy, which simultaneously entertains and worries me.
Air.
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Airman is already the gender neutral term.
No, that would be airwoman.
here's an af.mil article that includes the phrase "female airmen" multiple times https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3334170/female-fitment-program-drives-positive-change-in-air-force/
Kind of like how there are just humans and not humans and huwomans.
No, it's more like how we used to refer to all professions as being different kinds of men. Mailmen, firemen, policemen, etc. because men were the only ones with those jobs. I'm sure it's not intentionally gendered language, but it definitely is and we can change it if we want.
People dying because of border fuckery again, dude set himself on fire and we here unironically talking about the correct way to name a profession. Time and a place, person. this aint it.
I'm not the one that started this cringe reddit-style correction thread, as far as I'm concerned all soldiers are the same, but I'm sure as fuck not going to let shit like "airman is already the gender neutral term" go unchallenged because it very obviously isn't.
This is a comments section. None of this matters. This is exactly the time and place to talk about this. 🙄
She's a excellent swordsman, that kind of works though. So I get what they're saying.
She can also be an excellent sword fighter.
Marksman?
gun fighter
Shooter, crack shot, sharpshooter, etc.
Except the US Airforce uses it as a gender neutral title, which is extremely relevant when the subtext is you're talking about whether you're misgendering an almost certainly closeted trans person by calling them "airman".
I should have said "as a title used by the airforce" but I figured that was implied.
I don't think I care what the US Air Force calls people. The meaning of words is socially constructed, just like gender, and our society constructs "-man" as a gendered suffix. Male-as-default should be fought wherever it arises, even when the official government policy says otherwise.
Maybe especially when the government says otherwise, and Bushnell being trans (the evidence is certainly compelling) just makes this more important.
Then you don't care about what's being talked about. If Bushnell was a cis woman she would still be Airman Bushnell and it's not misgendering.
The US Air Force doesn't get to decide what is and isn't gendered language.
Nobody denies that women can do professions, short of the furthest right extremists, nobody disagrees with that. And nobody takes those guys seriously.
You know what the moderate right does take seriously? The idea that the left wants to make everything "woke" with things that negatively affect them and forces them to use "political speak", which is precisely what pushes people into the right wing dumpsterfire.
Like it was a cute idea 10 years ago, it backfired, please stop.
lol no one is becoming a fascist because we ask them to say mail carrier instead of mailman 🙄
And you know what makes women feel alienated? Being called men. Do we matter?
The minimum viable sex chromosome combination is a single X, which appears female, therefore female is the proper default. Deal with it.