text: Thank you for confirming my own point regarding naming things after men, in particular, saying something.   Places don't have their own reality apart from humans, is the belief such naming creates in people.  It reinforces the perception and the ongoing cultural bias that humans in general, but men particular are the real power in the world.   It reinforces in the minds of the people the "greatness" of men.
  
  Then, we have all the other names, like "Newton's law of gravity," that equates the man with the natural law of the universe.  It's not "Newton's law," it's the universe's law.  This, also, reinforces the power of males in the culture.   Anyone who thinks it doesn't matter should consider that no one has ever heard of "Curie's law of radioactivity."  We know of her work; she received two Nobel prizes (another white guy).  But her "greatness" isn't repeated every time we talk about x-rays.