Linguistic Bias Linguistic bias, inclusive language, political correctness; call it what you will the fact of the matter is, due to recent rapid social changes the use of man as a generic term has lead to misrepresentation and exclusion of women. In as much as man increases his intellectual ability, he still struggles in ancient approaches as to equality with woman. Several examples as to the use and self defined word "man" remain closely intertwined; both in definition and social context. However, the ridiculous extremes to which gender neutrality has been taken is awkward and misleading. "The practice of assigning masculine gender to neutral terms comes from the fact that every l