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The headline sounds like an interesting premise, but I just don’t have time in my life for articles with piss-poor writing anymore.

The first paragraph retells a hot take about history that would have no substance if the speaker wasn’t deliberately playing dumb about the word “man” referring to humankind and not just historical men.

Reading such trash is a net negative to the psyche. So I’ll cut my losses and close the tab.

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This seems to be the point of the article. That even down to the words we use to describe humankind, it is the male form that gets designated the “reference” form.

This has bigger implications in the design of safety equipment and tooling, sure, but the fact that no one dies because of the use of “mankind” vs “humankind” doesn’t mean we should dismiss it.

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