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Originally posted by SteveF
The reason we call them the mailman, the policeman, the fireman is not because you have to be male to hold those jobs but because in the English languare the male and nueter use of nouns is the same.
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Actually, they are "postal carriers", "police officers" and "firefighters".
Have you ever noticed how women refer to a group of other women as "guys" - as in "what are you guys doing"?
