    Sentence: . 1 Journalists: and. other .  commentators’. have . sometimes: taken a  facetious view: of the situation, Suggesting  ‘that person , itself, is‘ sexist because -son  denotes. “male. offspring,’ that. words ‘like  manhole are‘sexist, and that even ‘worhan’ ¢  Wo +: man )i is sexist:    Sentence 2; Jouynalists. and commentators  take ‘the idea of. sexism ‘in language very  seriously.