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OP Adam and Eve (replace with "Eve and Adam," to demonstrate that males do not take priority over females)
So then you're saying it's okay to demonstrate just the opposite then? That women take priority over men? Operating under this premise, wouldn't one have to say "Adam and Eve" sometimes and "Eve and Adam" sometimes, in equal balance, to make it right? This is a Biblical literary allusion. So then are you going to say "Juliet and Romeo"? Change, I venture to say censor, Shakespeare, too? It's the way they've come to be known as created by their authors. Sampson and Delilah. Heck, Burns and Allen (they chose to be billed that way). What about history, then, does William and Mary become Mary and William? When we say Antony and Cleopatra, as is accustomed, I think we all know that Cleopatra had the power and authority in that relationship, that Antony was her "putty" as it were. At least I always have.
Oh, and do you sing, "Frosty the Snowperson"?
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