There are a number of great new inventions in Time Magazine's latest "Best Inventions of 2007" issue. (Wouldn't it suck to invent something totally rad in December? Damn, no appearance in Time for you, my clever friend.)
One little blurb says that a new building has "windows manned by computer". Sorry, but shouldn't a man be manning something? I mean, the use of the word man in that way is already sexist enough to offend me, but to have a computer man things? Hey, if they meant that a person controls the windows via a computer, they should have said that.
So why can man be a verb, but woman can't? Hey? That's right. Sexism.
Seriously, I know language evolves and all that. But a computer manning things just seems wrong.
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