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What is mankind?

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enimmead · 03/06/2012 09:12

Just heard a bishop on Radio 4 praying for mankind.

That's kind of him. Angry

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Trills · 03/06/2012 13:24

To answer your question, mankind is a collective word for all humans. HTH.

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enimmead · 03/06/2012 13:23

Oh - and the boats on the Thames are....manpowered :(

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BasilBabyEater · 03/06/2012 13:19

That's an intellectual response ecclesvet.

The feminist analysis of language, is absolutely valid. It was feminists who brought to the attention fo the world, the fact that women were routinely excluded from discourse about humanity and they did this by analysing the language we use.

Then you got a whole load of nobbers pretending that words like man included women too - whcih of course, they never did, there was some uncertainty about whether women and had souls until about the enlightenment, when bishops grudgingly conceded that maybe they did.

This stuff is important for our history and our culture. If we're pig ignorant about it and decide it's irrelevant, we won't understand it and that's not a good thing. On an individual level, it's fine to not be interested. But to come on a thread and slap down a poster who wants to discuss it, is frightfully bad-mannered and somewht oafish if you don't mind me saying so.

ecclesvet · 03/06/2012 12:02

Oh FGS, this kind of stuff is why young women increasingly don't identify as feminists...