Discussion History Literature / HonorHarrington

Is there a milder version of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad? Weber has a tendency to try to change every little colloquialism and idiom to better reflect the setting, even when it\\\'s completely unnecessary, and one of the things he does in Honor Harrington is every single mention of \\\"man\\\" in an idiom will at some point be replaced with \\\"woman\\\". So \\\"man-on-the-street\\\" becomes \\\"woman-on-the-street\\\" and so on. While I suppose this is supposed to be trying to reflect the near-total gender equality of modern galactic society, I think, linguistically, it makes little sense. The original phrases were perfectly serviceable, and even today when gender equality issues and such are an actual thing nobody ever brings it up. And just say it out loud to yourself, \\\"man-on-the-street\\\" is just less awkward to say than \\\"woman-on-the-street\\\". I\\\'m just as surprised that people aren\\\'t using roflmao or gtg and other text speak. His view of how language evolves over time seems to be a bit limited, but then, scifi writers always faced problems trying to portray a future we have no way of knowing.

Also on a minor note the fact that he tries to pass off Scientology as anything close to resembling a legitimate religion also seems to be a case of trying to be even-handed across the board.