.... I have never and I truly mean NEVER seen “mankind” used where the meaning was anything other than gender neutral. Your reasoning for why it should change is PETTY. It is GOOD for a language to have such intricacies and nuance for our young to need to learn to grasp. Stop trying to engineer society to suit your…

That would not have been as poetic, strictly speaking. You’d be sacrificing succinct, poetic aliteration, all for the sake of political correctness. That’s wrong. Manipulative, and wrong.

That isnt what Marian said and you know it. Reading your article was physically painful. It’s so unobjective and biased that it’s disgraceful. Likewise, you ignoring that Marian was saying that the old adage is catchier when using the words it used is further evidence of your disgusting bias. “Man” and "Mankind”…