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It's man as in mankind, not man as in adult male.
Yeah, the way it's written shows pretty clearly that it's "man" as in "human". I seriously hope no-one read that and thought "so women can't ever be the protagonists?".
Then why is "Man and Woman" listed as a form of conflict?
OK, that is a problem.
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Change that to "Male vs Female".
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I believe Man vs. Woman used to be used in literary criticism, but Male vs. Female seems to be the current term.
If we're not going to use the phrasing that Quiller-Coach guy did, then can we go ahead and change the other examples from "Man" to "Person"?
I don't think that would be a good idea. "Man", meaning "mankind", can essentially be plural or referring to conflict on a larger scale. Person is always singular, and so it changes the meaning a bit.
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Yeah, lets just stick with "man".
Its an unfortunate quirk of the English Language that we just have to live with. Like our lack of good gender neutral pronouns.
This discussion looks like it ended two months ago with consensus that it should remain 'man' - save for the male vs female part. Yet, looking at the trope now, it is written with 'person'. I'm just going to change that back to man (though if the opposite consensus was reached elsewhere (?) and I am doing wrong, fix it).
On the Conflict page, all types of conflict are listed in the "Man vs." format (Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Machine, and so on). That is the way the forms of conflict were originally articulated, and the page makes reference to at least one said articulator, but wouldn't it be better to change "Man" to "Person"? The way it's written now seems to preclude the possibility of a non-male protagonist.