re: Univ of Florida professor lowers grade for use of the non gender neutral word “man”

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What the hell did he say?

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Water has been around a lot longer than people, is necessary for our survival, and can be found in most anything.

The problem with that particular sentence isn't the message but the typical purple prose used by most college freshmen that are still figuring out 1.) they don't know everything and 2.) effectively communicating an idea doesn't mean sounding like the world's worst slam poet.

ETA: For what is supposed to be a history paper, there is supposed to be an adherence to academic language and "humankind" is the more scholarly accepted word than "mankind." A trivial thing to take points off for relative to the tonal issues that plague the rest of the paper, but technically incorrect nonetheless. Methinks y'all are trying to make this into an SJW thing when, really, it's just a poorly written paper for a college history course.