<p>Can you just "sexist" words such as mankind, he, businessman, and others to refer to all people including women?</p>
<p>Would it be consider sexist?</p>
<p>no its not sexist its convention, its tradition, its a "de facto" custom</p>
<p>grnjd, people like you are the reason we have mail carriers not mailmen, police officers not policemen, etc. yuck.</p>
<p>On one of my papers, my teacher forced me to change every single "mankind" and "man" to very awkward sounding alternatives. The sound, feel and flow of the paper was butchered by this single act.</p>
<p>It just comes down to the fact that, when writing about humans as a whole, these words just sound so much better.</p>
<p>I would definitely call myself a feminist, but I think this kind of thing is really stupid. And if you look at other languages (French, Spanish, etc), English is actually one of the least "sexist".</p>
<p>I am just a equal rights person. I think that AA and femenism and mal(ism?) has just gone to far. The fact is that people try to push their rights too far so they have the advantage. Just make everything fair</p>
<p>I can't find the article now but I read one about how the word "man" started out as just meaning human being and how it has been merged with male and men.</p>
<p>"I am just a equal rights person. I think that AA and femenism and mal(ism?) has just gone to far. The fact is that people try to push their rights too far so they have the advantage. Just make everything fair"</p>
<p>Do you even know what AA is??? Do you know that it helps pretty much any person who is a minority in situations in society??</p>
<p>do not start this. i am tired of seeing so many silly, fundamentally flawed arguments about affirmative action on this website.</p>
<p>hey I'm all for people who don't have oppertunities being given one. You can't say the system isn't flawed however and that their isnt anyone else that needs help. Whoever needs help should get it.</p>
<p>mankind is dudelove AND cactus jack aka mick foley...therefore its not a very good word</p>