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[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The year is 3000. Sometime in the 2800s, a movement to refer to males as “human”, and thus leave “man” to specifically refer to all mankind, began. Millenia of confusion and infighting swept away, with the last of the etymologists and morphologists pointing out the root meaning of “wo-“ giving it all up in the ‘980s. The world is at peace…

[–] TRBoom@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I will have to look up what that is. I just wrote some random bullshit off the top of my head.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The wiki article has this wonderful critique excerpt :

(...) also remarked that Connery "acts like a man who agreed to do something before he grasped what it was".

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

It's a very fucking weird movie