Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170424154014/@comment-4010415-20170524001415

The missions that the students go on are part of a lesson for field experience, and they have to accompany a professional Huntsman when they do it.

There is a difference between Huntsman and Hunter, SYUTK. It's not just a word or a label, it's literally a job title. If someone who kills Grimm for a living walks into a bar, someone asks them what their profession is, and they say "I'm a Hunter", everyone's going to assume they hunt animals, not Grimm. It's a job title. It matters.

I can't get a job working the kitchen at McDonald's and tell everyone I'm a chef because I'm not a chef, I'm a frycook/fast food cook.

While they do sometimes say "Huntsmen and Huntresses", "Huntsman" is still a gender-neutral term they use to describe both male and female Huntsmen, and I can even site the times that they use it in the show.


 * "The moral of this story? A true Huntsman must be honorable! A true Huntsman must be dependable! A true Huntsman must be strategic, well-educated, and wise!" - Port, in The Badge and the Burden
 * "Our parents were Huntsmen." - Yang, in Burning the Candle
 * "Despite Atlas reinforcements, local authorities are still calling on any available Huntsmen to aid in suppressing the spike in Grimm activity." - News report in Beginning of the End
 * "Huntsmen!" - The captain referring to Blake and Sun in Of Runaways and Stowaways
 * "Lastly, the Huntsmen academies. These institutions' sole purpose is to train the next generation of Huntsmen." - WoR: Kingdoms
 * "to ensure that the world's Huntsmen would never settle for mediocrity," - WoR: Vytal Festival Tournament

They use it often enough that it should be considered a standard. It's like saying you think it's stupid that the plural of Faunus is Faunus, so you're gonna say Fauni or Faunuses instead.