Flat maps and Gender Neutrality

I don’t get this. I was scorned a few days ago for shitting all over a half-baked theory that a qausi-feminist threw-up on our Christmas brunch discussion. Her comment was this: we are socialized to believe that males and females have different distinct roles and that gender bias nouns, prefixes, titles, etc reinforce and perpetuate these divisive roles. She claims that through the common use of words like “businessman,” “Chairmen” or “he” rather than “she,” we have internalized these meanings so much so that they have affected the way we think, act and conceive of gender roles.

What then would cartographers think of the common wall map that has for centuries represented the world as flat? Would they then be up in arms, saying that flat maps misrepresent the globe as being anything but spherical, and that the distribution of flat maps has brainwashed the ignorant public into believe this is so? Would they file class action law suits to make sure every school burns its flat maps? The answer is No. This is because as scientists they know better. They realize that that re-supplying schools with spherical representations of the world or hiring a “global-sphere consultant" to rectify wrongs would take away from the public’s purse unnecessarily. They know that people will not think that the world is flat merely as a result of it being commonly represented as such. No, they know that we know better.

Such is not the case for feminists. They hold a fraction of the trust in society that the common cartographer has; in fact, they believe society as a whole is ignorant to its own malicious gender bias manifestations.