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 woman ( wo + man ) is sexist.
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Trying to prove that language is intrinsically sexist is seen as ridiculous and even comical.
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