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Justin Trudeau tells woman to say "peoplekind" instead of "mankind"

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Man Power bruh!

How do people speaking Latin based languages manage?
Half the words have gender attached to them and use the male version whenever it's a group.

Reply 82

Zoqua

Original post by Iridocyclitis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42952220

"Man" is a long-standing word for humanity as a whole. What next? Change "Human" to "Huperson"?

I don't see what's wrong with peoplekind, as there are other people who are not men in the world...

Reply 83

Good bloke

Original post by Zoqua

I don't see what's wrong with peoplekind

Then you are part of the problem. 'Mankind' includes women. If you object that it includes the letters 'man' then so do 'human', 'humanity' and 'humane'. Would you object to being called humane, or would you insist on something else?

Reply 84

Zoqua

Original post by Good bloke

If you where trying to spell human, instead of humane, then yes, I do think that it is sexist that manking, human, and yet more than half the human population are actually women, therefore making it illogical on two fronts. There are more important things in the world, but if another more gender fair species name was coined then I would use it.

Reply 85

AspiringUnderdog

Which one. I'm sure that when I studied Spanish and French there were loads of words like that. e.g. table being female

Also I'm sure when you said they for a group of boys and girls it always takes the male they if any boys are in the group.

Reply 86

Good bloke

Original post by Zoqua

If you where trying to spell human, instead of humane

I'll assume you meant to write 'If you were trying to spell human instead of humane' and respond that I meant to spell exactly what I did spell: 'humane'.

Reply 87

Zoqua

Original post by Good bloke

I'll assume you meant to write 'If you were trying to spell human instead of humane' and respond that I meant to spell exactly what I did spell: 'humane'.

I would not particularly mind being called Humane if it meant that it represented a more logical percentage of the population. I am still not exactly clear what your point for not changing it to "peoplekind" is?

Reply 88

Good bloke

Original post by Zoqua

I am still not exactly clear what your point for not changing it to "peoplekind" is?

It isn't needed, is a plural singular and is inelegant.

Reply 89

VGM

Original post by Alamaniya

Don’t you think there is a positive connotation to the word “man”? As in “be a man”. Calling someone a girl is even an insult, nobody says “be a woman” or uses any word associated with femininity as a good thing. Women are seen as weak naive beings, and our language reflects that. Young girls are exposed to that from a very young age. Why aren’t we supposed to do anything about it? I don’t understand why some people get so bothered about this.

be a man isn't positive it means "quit crying and go do something, even if you have to suffer". many girls I know would get offended if they were called a boy same as many boys would be offended if they were called a girl. our language reflects that women are weak and naive that's why the term "strong independent woman" exists but not "strong independent man".

Reply 90

VGM

Original post by Noodlestudent

Yeah I’m not saying it could definitely happen but it’s one of the few that can affects how men have been put in power. Slavery does still exist though as well as sexism. It is just more subtly and sometimes without any thought/ ill intent behind it.

how on earth does a novel written BY A WOMAN after women gained equal (and more) rights than men show how men "have been put into power". I live in the UK and currently the most powerful person in the country (our monarch) is a woman. our PM is also a woman. chancellor of Germany is also a woman. Women also have power. it's not only men have power. if you ignore the stories you hear once in a while, can you please give me a modern example of slavery in a first world country. pretty much all first world countries have outlawed slavery so if it does exist then it's not the duty of some activists to get involved but rather that of the police.

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Reply 91

username1044970

Original post by Dandaman1

This cringefest of a politician just keeps on giving.

'Mankind' is not exclusionary. It's used for both sexes. Pretty much always has. He sees 'man' in a word and thinks "Oh no, sexism! It excludes women!" But what about 'human', or the word 'woman' itself? Does he know anything at all about words? And all those morons clapping.... Ugh.

He was joking. The lady’s question was so long he had to do something to keep people from dozing off. Jeez, both the rabid reactionaries and radical feminists need to relax and learn to take a joke.

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Reply 92

username1044970

Original post by arizonaidiot

Well,for starters,the word has been around longer and more people are familiar with it.Not to mention most of the world has become acclimatized to it due to it being used so frequently in everyday language.

Words change. Do you still use Shakespearean English?

Reply 93

username1044970

Original post by Good bloke

Humankind is just a longer, clumsier version of mankind. And still contains 'man'.

Is the English vocabulary primarily concerned with efficiency?

Reply 94

arizonaidiot

Original post by Dima-Blackburn

Words change. Do you still use Shakespearean English?

But it takes time to get used to them.Better to go with the flow and f*ck this feminist crap.

Reply 95

username1044970

Original post by arizonaidiot

But it takes time to get used to them.Better to go with the flow and f*ck this feminist crap.

Going with the flow in this context probably means following the natural evolution of vocabulary. You can resist and stay static of course, while the rest of the world slowly moves on. Lol

Reply 96

arizonaidiot

Original post by Dima-Blackburn

Going with the flow in this context probably means following the natural evolution of vocabulary. You can resist and stay static of course, while the rest of the world slowly moves on. Lol

Ah,but the rest of the world isn't gonna stand for this feminist bullsh1t and ;hence,won't move on.

Reply 97

username1044970

Original post by arizonaidiot

Ah,but the rest of the world isn't gonna stand for this feminist bullsh1t and ;hence,won't move on.

You should probably refrain from discussing the evolution of language unless you fix your punctuation.

Reply 98

Plantagenet Crown

Original post by AspiringUnderdog

How do people speaking Latin based languages manage?
Half the words have gender attached to them and use the male version whenever it's a group.

Well all this ridiculous PC, SJW nonsense to do with gender appears to be an almost exclusive occurrence in the Anglosphere, and is virtually absent in other places. As a Spanish speaker, I can say that I’ve never experienced any of this weirdness in Spain, nor have I ever heard it anywhere other than the UK or US. People should realise that the gender of nouns has nothing to do with biological sex/gender and should therefore not be an issue.