Man Pages Got Your Panties In A Twist? Use Woman Instead!

In the last few months, it seems everyone has suddenly decided that they need to be perceived as "woke" in regards to social injustices, including sexism and gender equality. One of the sticking points for the Linux community has been our beloved "man" pages. Why does it have to be "man"? Well, in Emacs...it doesn't!

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[JHACbiz]

I just mistakenly thought "Man" meant "manual". My bad. I'm not nearly woke enough.

[nocsorg]

man ---> manual
woman ---> womanual
seems legit

[tsundoku]

We also need to rename the file manager "PC Man FM" to "PC Person FM". PC stands for "politically correct", obviously :-P

[endery]

"Searching through woman is better than searching through man" Now that is real discrimination.

[Berntisso]

Calm down guys, the choice of the name "woman" is clearly just another of Richard Stallman's puns

[programmingguy]

So they renamed man to woman and made it harder to use because well it's woman, Thanks Emacs.

[MissourHanzai]

We need to migrate the entire tech vocab to latin. This anglocentric paradigm is damaging to the tech industry.

[censoredterminalautism]

Shorter, more succinct man pages should be called manlet pages.

[torsten.breswald]

do these woman pages behave like weird every four weeks?

[BobbyPhoenix]

I always thought "man" page stood for manual, and had nothing to do with male or female. You learn something new everyday I guess.

[Amike]

What a funny April folks joke hahahaha... Oh, wait, it's August...

[halvard]

But woman contains man at the end
So it should be woperson
But woperson contains son
So it should be woperchild
Finally equality is established

But since man stands for manual,
The full equal name is woperchildual

[minepro]

I tried to use woman but it started asking questions again 😁.

[hexa]

"Use women" yes DT very progressive

[arek]

Derek I appreciate your common sense. It's better to laugh than cry when you see what happens nowadays.

[MyurrDurr]

This satire is too strong, it sounds too real **mind blown**

[mandyalthiser]

As a woman, I think that is absurd to get upset about it being called man pages.🙄 I thought man page was short for manual page.

[avejantzero]

Wow.
Now I feel how the spirit of gender equality fills my heart...
Oh, wait, no, nothing changes actually. =/

[TheBlueThird]

There's nothing wrong with wanting to improve the world by fighting social injustice. Racism and sexism has hurt a lot of people. Though I will admit it's become more of a fad with some rather than a belief.

[pomo]

Take a shot everytime he says man (woman included)