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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 03:08:07 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   I feel like if we are going to change "mailman" to "mailperson" for reasons of inclusion, then "pussycat" needs to be changed to "genitalcat" for the same reason.

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     IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_ (freeschool@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 04:03:44 JST IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

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     @freemo "Man" also means human in it's other meaning,
     HUman or MANkind.

     (there are more meanings)

     It may have been the original meaning (I'm assuming / guessing / relying on history a bit here that all mail personnel were mostly male (say >80% men, even more probably like 99% at some stage) and probably still is a high number... so it's not too bad as a word lasting the changes in human time and human history.

     I can guess the post was a joke and a reality etc in one so I'm just focussing on the reality part as many do hear 'man' more than HUman or Man as in MANkind'.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 04:13:08 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

     @freeschool yea :)

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     Trinsec (trinsec@trinsec.org)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 02:00:11 JST Trinsec

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     @freemo@qoto.org I'm so glad that we can just say 'postbode' in Dutch. That's neutral, you genitalcat!

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 05:39:03 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_
     • Erik Haugen

     @ech fair

     @freeschool

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     Erik Haugen (ech@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 05:39:04 JST Erik Haugen

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     • IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

     @freeschool @freemo $ man ls