I am on the boat of people that agree that wereman/werman and wifman are better than "man" and "woman" and I want to kinda go into why beyond just "it's better for nonbinary terminology".
I've always felt weird about the fact that "man" is the default way to refer to humanity, but it etymologically makes sense. The current definition of "man" meaning "male human" is a lot newer than the original definition of it just being human.
Furthermore, I've always felt weird that female involves the addition of "fe" to "male", implying that female is some sort of modification to male. Scientifically speaking, it's sort of the opposite, but I digress.
Femininity and womanhood are modernly seen as additions to a human, not something that is default or typical. This is reflected in how femininity is an active performance in a lot of modern western cultures.
Wereman and wifman are well documented terms that are modifiers to the word "man". I think we should go further with this though and come up with an alternative to "female" as well.
I propose "wermale" for male and "wifmale" for female. They would function as adjective forms of werman and wifman. They could be abbreviated as R and F.
These are just my thoughts and I'm curious to what others think.









