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A woman (/ˈwʊmən/), pl: women (/ˈwɪmɨn/) is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights". Unlike men, women are typically capable of giving birth.
The Old English wifman meant "female human" (werman meant "male human". Man or mann had a gender neutral meaning of "human", corresponding to Modern English "one" or "someone". However in around 1000AD "man" started to be used more to refer to "male human", and in the late 1200s began to inevitably displace and eradicate the original word "werman"). The medial labial consonants coalesced to create the modern form "woman"; the initial element, which meant "female," underwent semantic narrowing to the sense of a married woman ("wife").
A very common Indo-European root for woman, *gwen-, is the source of English queen (Old English cwēn primarily meant woman, highborn or not; this is still the case in Danish, with the modern spelling kvinde, as well as in Swedish kvinna), as well as gynaecology (from Greek γυνή gynē), banshee fairy woman (from Irish bean woman, sí fairy) and zenana (from Persian زن zan). The Latin fēmina, whence female, is likely from the root in fellāre (to suck), referring to breastfeeding.
In English, lower case man (pl. men) refers to an adult human male (the term boy is the usual term for a human male child or adolescent). Sometimes it is also used as an adjective to identify a set of male humans, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "men's rights". Although men typically have a male reproductive system, some intersex people with ambiguous genitals, and biologically female transgender people, may also be classified or self-identify as a "man".
The term manhood is used to refer to masculinity, the various qualities and characteristics attributed to men such as strength and male sexuality.
The English term "man" is derived from Old English mann. The Old English form had a default meaning of "adult male" (which was the exclusive meaning of "wer"), though it could signify a person of unspecified gender. The closely related "man" was used just as it is in Modern German to designate "one" (e.g., as in the saying Man muss mit den Wölfen heulen). The Old English form is derived from Proto-Germanic *mannaz, "persona", which is also the etonym of German Mann "man, husband" and man "one" (pronoun), Old Norse maðr, and Gothic manna. According to Tacitus, the mythological progenitor of the Germanic tribes was called Mannus. The Germanic form is in turn derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *manu-s "man, person", which is also the root of the Indian name Manu, mythological progenitor of the Hindus.
She pulls each string attached to vital organs with a crippling chuckle.
He shrieks until it's no longer worth mentioning.
There's a blizzard outside the dollhouse that permits man from simple rituals.
Inside it's not much different,
The hammer smacks his knees and he's forced to prey to the demon's insecurities.
On a pathological, uni-dimensional system of devilish symbols.
Which means it doesn't get more disgusting
Then a moaning desperate soul screaming please don't go until the life is gone.
I know the light are on and i used to light cigarettes with 'em.
Make a sacrifice humans are vices too,
Comfort is a lesser-civilized form of confirmity.
Let's dance to pincushions birth control pills shall be a prison cell.
All it wants is an engagement ring circle of fire another devilish ceremony.
She's wearing a black cloak to the wedding,
And he's wearing a glue on tie to match the body cast.
And every member of the family is lonely and happy,
And doesn't have anything to complain about,
But never shuts the fuck up 'til he's bathing in a puddle of urine;
The cast beautifully fitting.
Get well soon i wrote on the chest in the same shades we used to paint walls with
'Til modern technology made the arms obsolete.
I imagine she's standing on a toadstool built from the same family tree of broken branches
But the lovely leaves keep them from falling below.
The fruits grew up rotten spoiled and spawning parasitic tendencies.
My friend, i fear the juices might kill you,
But i can't help you.
My make pretend crew, runs thicker then fake blood in horror movies.
Man and woman is killing babies.
Man and woman still beat each other.
Man and woman can barely rarely speak.