Not Merely a Man

Leftists love to purge our language of words that offend them, such as "niggardly," which has nothing at all to do with any group of people other than misers, but sounds enough like another word for those who might be heavily melanin-laden. Another Leftist crusade against words is anything having a relationship to the word "man." The other day, I saw some woman blathering on about this subject after they launched six wife-men up into space. Sorry, let me use the updated elision of that term, "women." Anyway, my memory has blissfully purged itself of what she actually said. This memory erasure is probably a natural defense mechanism to keep me sane. Still, it was some objection to "man," perhaps in "mankind." Maybe she wanted "personkind," instead. This is worse nonsense than changing history to "herstory." History comes ultimately from Greek, which does not have the pronouns his and her, which are English words, and the etymology of the word history has nothing to do with the sexual equipment of the beings involved.

What makes replacing "man" even more ridiculous than replacing three letters from a Greek word that have nothing to do with an English pronoun? Like "history," "man" has nothing to do with sexual equipment. Man is the sex-neutral term in English. This might come as a surprise to many, but it is true. "Man" does not indicate masculinity or XY chromosomes. It is the all-encompassing term. Mankind literally means all humans of whatever sex. "Woman" is a term which means a female man. So, what is the term that means a male man? It seems to have gone missing. Does anyone know it?

In these latter days of the world, the word is only hinted at in a couple of compound words. The less common is wergeld, which is the price established in Anglo-Saxon law to pay to avoid retribution after injuring and killing a male man. The other word we have in English that preserves the word for a male man is werewolf. The old word was "wer." That was the original word for a male of the species called man. This is related to the Latin word "vir," which makes a much stronger showing in the English language in words like: virile, virility, triumvirate, and virtuous.

Thus, we find that the problem is not with the word man, but that the word wer has already been purged from our vocabularies. Let us reclaim our werhood and revive the old word. I am not merely a man, I am a wer. Will you stand with me in reviving this word and fighting the silliness of the Leftists in trying to destroy and erase one more word from our vocabularies?

Are there any good words that you would like to revive?