User talk:Sdsds

Manned spaceflight

The term "manned" is already gender-neutral. Confusion over this comes from not knowing the correct definition of the word. "manned" is also a widely used and accepted term in the aerospace industry. While I have no problem refering to the overall space program as "human spaceflight" and other such things, it does not make any sense to edit articles to erase every mention of a "manned mission" or a "manned station." If you look up the meaning of the word, you will find no mention of men or women...just humans. You'll notice that I did not edit every instance of where you changed "manned." I only did it where changing it caused the sentence to be extremely clumsy and more confusing.

However, I must state again that the term "manned" is not gender specfic, and thinking that it is is flat out wrong. Cjosefy 14:23, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

<<Cjosefy, we agree the term "manned" does not specify the gender of the crew. What your analysis fails to take into account is that the term may nonetheless leaves many readers with an incorrectly gender-biased view of the subject. Your claim that my alternative, the use of phrases like "mission with a human crew" or "station with a human crew", is 'extremely clumsy and more confusing' is simply inflammatory, and has no basis in fact. Sdsds 15:23, 3 January 2007 (UTC) >>