• jackpot@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    no i mean, by the people ‘who consider it’. i think the speaksr didnt understand that theyre saying it’s mankind others are talkint abkut

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      7 months ago

      Oh but the word mankind in itself overlooks women. We’re all supposed to be saying humankind now.

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        7 months ago

        etymologically speaking im not even sure if thats right. i heard somethibg like this and they either said woman doesnt derive from man or that man used to mean woman and man but woman became its own thing, cant recall