"I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some man who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one."
Would you "thinks he doth protest too much"?
“Man” is generally acknowledged to refer to both men and women when a person is speaking generally.
I understand that many people who did not grow up many decades ago may not be as sensitive to certain forms of expression as those of us who experienced sexual harassment in our youth. And some people may not be aware that their parents inculcated a subtle inclination to resent women more intensely than they resent men who have power over them and to denigrate such women more vociferously than they would a man.