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Time for Womanhattan
But that still has the word man in it
Wopersonhattan
But that has the gender term son in it
Woperchildhattan
Fun fact, woman and man come from different roots. So while it might have the letters of man in it, it doesn't have man exactly.
That doesn't sound right...
From what I remember "woman" comes from "wifman", which is a compound of "wif" and "man", and back then "man" still refered to male and female persons, and "wer" and "wif" were male and female persons respectively.
Fun fact: my memory is shitty. Looks like you're right except that "man" wasn't gendered at the time.
But I included that, didn't I?
Or do you mean rather than male and female, I should have said persons regardless of gender? I guess that makes more sense.
Fun fact: I can't fucking read either.