Purdue University removes the word "man" from writing guide because it's offensive

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Purdue University Professor: Avoid Using Term 'Man' | National Review

writing guide at Purdue University advises students to avoid words with “man” in them — such as “mailman” and “mankind” — in order to write “in a non-sexist, non-biased way.”

“Although MAN in its original sense carried the dual meaning of adult human and adult male, its meaning has come to be so closely identified with adult male that the generic use of MAN and other words with masculine markers should be avoided,” the guide states.

“Writing in a non-sexist, non-biased way is both ethically sound and effective,” it advises. “Non-sexist writing is necessary for most audiences; if you write in a sexist manner and alienate much of your audience from your discussion, your writing will be much less effective.”

According to the guide, “mankind” should be replaced with words such as “humanity,” “people,” and “human beings,” and “mailman” should be replaced with “mail carrier.” One of the other words it cautions against is “man-made,” suggesting that students use instead the word “synthetic,” “manufactured,” or “machine-made.”


I’m all for gender equality, but I have to say that this seems a bit overblown. I’m a woman (not to brag), and I can tell you that there is approximately a zero percent chance that seeing a word like “mankind” in someone’s work would “alienate” me as the guide suggests. It’s just not that serious, and I’m just not that sensitive.

What’s more, I can admit that I have used the words “mankind” and “man-made” in my own writing and speaking, and I really resent the idea that this means I’m being sexist against myself.

All of this has gotten out of control. Earlier this month, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau actually corrected a woman who said “mankind” at a town-hall event, telling her to say “peoplekind” instead. Even aside from the fact that “peoplekind” is not a word, that’s still absolutely insane. Honestly, if I had been in that situation and actually had a man tell me that I was discriminating against myself through the use of the words I myself had chosen to use, then I think my head would have exploded. He didn’t come off as caring or compassionate, he came off as sanctimonious and ridiculous — which isn’t surprising, seeing as sanctimoniousness is really what this entire movement is about.


That’s right: I’d bet that both Trudeau and the writers of this Purdue guide completely understand that no women out there are actually being hurt by words like “mankind” — they just want to show off how ethically superior they are to everyone else.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

@Another Man

 

[onelastdeath]

This doesn’t really matter.

Anybody about to get angry over this, don’t.

More important shyt going on.

 

[Knowledge]

Meh, not my problem. I do have a question though. How do feminist who take offense to lil shyt like the word man and the overall dominance of men feel about the Bible? I'm not religious myself but Im sure there a plenty of Christian feminists out there.

Spoiler

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• Genesis 3:16. "To the woman he (God) said, 'I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.'"
• 1 Timothy 2:12. "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."
• 1 Corinthians 11:7-9. "For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man."
• 1 Corinthians 14:34. "The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says."
• Colossians 3:18. "Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord."
• 1 Peter 3:1. "Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives."
• Ephesians 5:22-24[21]. "Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior. 24 Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands."

I'm just saying

 

[AllHolosEve]

This doesn’t really matter.

Anybody about to get angry over this, don’t.

More important shyt going on.

I was about to express my outrage as a huMAN, but I'ma chill...

 

[AllHolosEve]

Meh, not my problem. I do have a question though. How do feminist who take offense to lil shyt like the word man and the overall dominance of men feel about the Bible? I'm not religious myself but Im sure there a plenty of Christian feminists out there.

Never really thought of this...

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Respect everyones gender identity

 

[Caribbean lover]

So Trudeau told a women not to say mankind but people kind instead? Ain't that mansplaining though

 

[ejthompson23]

This is what I mean by liberals are the fukking worst if you’re black and vote for these fakkits you can just kill your self now...using the word man is offensive? To who? To gays? White fakkits and feminists need to be put in schools whenever a shooting bout to happen...

 

[YamakaSmacker]

I don't see a problem

 

[ejthompson23]

Respect everyones gender identity

I’m a MAN, why not respect my gender identity

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

Meh ...no big deal, liberal arts students have been taught to write this way for the last 20 years or so. Looks like they're just getting around to revising the manual.

 

[Easy-E]

This works to further this neutered worldview.

Same thing they do with black American. Apparently we came here to work and escape like every European immigrant.

Nothing to see here. There's way more things colleges could be doing to improve--but, they chose to bow down to dense feminists.

 

[killacal]

I don't see anything wrong

I'm sure there are no men at Purdue University anyway, bunch of "cis sky net dragon fly paleo sexuals"

 

[Devilinurear]

Those chickens go to school?