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Mankind, Womankind, Humankind

Which word do you prefer?

White Feather
2 min readMar 31, 2019

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Over thirty years ago I stopped using the word, mankind. The word really bothered me. It is an archaic term, made up by men, to describe all humans on the planet. But the word itself only refers to half of the humans on the planet.

The word, womankind, only refers to half of the humans on the planet — the females — so it makes logical sense…

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