Has the word 'Man' become an irritant?

There is a whole lot of hype seeking for an inclusive language both in speech and in written text. Some of the feminists plead for an inclusive  language and they felt the use of language is solely male dominated. Hence, the word 'man' has become an irritant. I too was trying to understand the 'why' of this phenomenon. I asked myself why is there a problem in using the term 'man'? After all both man and woman have their own masculine and feminine qualities. i came to a better understanding of the term while reading Raimundo Panikkar. In his book, "A Dwelling Place for Wisdom," He writes:

"The Latin word for Man is homo; it signifies neither male nor female but the totality of Man where there are polarities but no divisions. Sex, gender and polarity - the biological gender, the grammatical gender, and the polar structure of reality - are three different things. Feminine and masculine are not the same as woman and man."

He continues,

"Yin and Yang, warm and cold, light and darkness are polarities that belong to reality as a whole and cannot be reduced to either "male" or "female" since the biological gender is just one of many polarities."

One cannot reduce the reality of a human being only in the aspect of gender. Panikkar would call this reduction as "sexomorphism." Panikkar was even not happy with equating Man and human or human being. Hence, he paid close attention to the etymology of words and their relations since he was convinced of the impossibility of a singular universal language. He is also convinced that language also has many dwelling places for Wisdom. 

Come!! know the essential.... Build up understanding and in the quiet moments cherish the dance and revelation of wisdom.