anson harris
I guess the question is, do you use words like human, woman, mansion, layman and mankind? All come from
man meaning person or people. Of course you could go for what that loon Trudeau tried to do and make up words like “peoplekind”! But that didn’t go so well!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rsonkind-viral
I think the bottom line is that Airman is not really offensive as a term, as isn’t human, layman, mansion, mankind or woman. So why bother to change it in the first place? You just define it as ‘the gender neutral term for that work in the Air Force” (which is how the USAF managed this), rather than the craziness of trying to reinvent things by using a word that already has meaning and a gender - Aviator.
Anyway, if you want a laugh, and fancy a bit of edgy comedy, then have a watch of this: