Congressmen (and women) should have a 2 year term limit max. Six years of doing whatever the hell he wants with no regard for his constituents is insane.

Congressmen (and women)

Pedantic and off topic, but it would have been a shit ton easier if we just ate a masculine prefix and leave “man” as a gender neutral one.

Something extra douchey like “heman/hemen”, so that all the douches would eagerly use it.

And everyone can just go back to using “man” as a gender neutral option like most languages were built around.

So we could say “Congressmen” to describe humans in Congress.

Like, what are you even suggesting?

Congresswomen? “Congress women”? “Women who are in Congress”?

Do you understand why none of those make sense?

It’s because “congressmen” is already gender neutral.

“Mankind” literally includes everyone. Women, men, nonbinary, furries, saxophone players, your mother-in-law, literally every human

Why are you so hung up on genitals, that you insist they be brought up at every moment? How do you care enough to put that effort in, but never actually got pedantic enough to see what was correct?

Actually, no I don’t believe “congressmen” is gender neutral. Maybe I should have used “representatives” instead but there’s nothing wrong with being all inclusive.

Actually, no I don’t believe “congressmen” is gender neutral

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/congressman

a member of a congress

It doesn’t matter what you “believe”. “Beliefs” are just opinions that someone can’t defend logically.

You are wrong. And on some level you understand that or you’d come up with the femine version of “congress women” that doesn’t immediately make an English speaker recognize it as nonsensical.

It’s pattern recognition, not even conscious thought.

You not being able to admit you were wrong, is just tiresome honestly.

Sorry for English not being my first language I guess? Nice to see Lemmy has become as hostile as Reddit.