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piefed.zip

"." is one of those that you take for granted until you read stuff like this. At least it had "," this time.

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I can 100% imagine someone delivering it as written. After each like there's a pause just long enough for you to interrupt each other.

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Some professions that were traditionally male dominated and were also called "____ man" can be made gender neutral by replacing "man" with "person."

This does not work for "garbage man."

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Das Mann means the person and is gender neutral, the English word "man" which comes from it also has a gender neutral sense. It's more archaic, but it does exist

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sopuli.xyz

Garbage collector works fine though.

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piefed.social

I'm partial to fireman to fire fighter, so mailman to mail fighter, policeman to police fighter, etc.

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Well only because the police are fascist and anyone who is anti fascist is antifascist

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Garbagefighter! Goes well with firefighter, mailfighter, salesfighter, congressfighter, fishfighter, barfighter, ombudsfighter.

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