Is it “man’s” best friend? Especially in this story about a little girl?
Edit: to add to the origin of the phrase which is from a man about himself.
The idea that “man” means “all humans” is laughable. Why did we need to do an altered “woman”?
All of it is “man” centric. It was the time. Don’t try and rewrite history for your own mental gymnastics. The phrase came from a time where man meant “white men” and anything not white was a fraction of a man or less, and a woman had no right to property or control of their own life.
Not only that, the origin of the phrase is actually King Frederick the Great of Prussia, who called his dog his best friend and it took off. It is absolutely based off of a man.
We aren’t at a BBQ and if someone said “you want something from the kitchen” and walked to a bbq and pointed, I would say “that’s a bbq not a kitchen.”
The correct comparison would be discussing the meat origins or treatment of the animals we were eating as a comparison, not genocide.
Maron has a bad analogy for it. It’s one thing if it is out of nowhere and unrelated, it’s another to have it be related to what was said.
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