Geoff protests: Call me a chauvinist swine if you will, but I've long considered man to be non-gender-specific in certain contexts.

The word man is, at root, an Old English word meaning human being. The commonly used words for males and females were, respectively, wer and wif. While it was possible to refer to wępmen and wifmen, I have, in my very limited reading, seen only wępcynd and wifcynd.

The idea that to be a man you have to be male is the sexist notion. Referring to females as men is not.

Women take back your manhood!