The Opposite of Man...

From an article with Michael Kimmel, sociologist and professor at SUNY: Stony Brook

1. Age 3
Zachary loved to play a game we called “opposites.” You know the game: I say a word, and he tells me the opposite. They’re simple and fun, and we have a great time playing it. One evening, my mother was visiting, and the three of us were walking in our neighborhood park playing Opposites. Scratchy/smooth, tall/short, high/low, fast/slow – you get the idea. Then my mother asked, “Zachary, what’s the opposite of boy?”
My whole body tensed. Here it comes, I thought, Mars and Venus, the “opposite” sex, the whole gender binary.
Zachary looked up at his grandmother and said, “Man.”

http://www.vday.org/meet-vday/v-men/kimmel