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Re:What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age? by nitwit005 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:47PM (#21587043)
Investigating bias can be important, but I feel this author needs to consider their own biases.

The idea that women might favor naming based on textiles or clothing appears purely based on stereotypes about women, and seems a bit offensive to me.

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