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> Though a woman, she talks the masculinized talk I don't think that's accurate. It used to be that "he" and "man" were understood to be gender neutral in abstract and impersonal cases. Such as "to boldly go where no man has gone before" and "mankind" and "mailman". During Hopper's life, English language changed to expunge the ambiguity.
Not only understood, but widely accepted as the grammatically correct general reference gender. English isn’t the only language to do this.
Interestingly, the German translation "one" (as in the gender neutral pronoun: "One must not both eat and talk.") is "man".