Trudeau Tells Woman To Use Peoplekind Instead Of Mankind For Inclusivity

[GypsyPrincesss 615]

Has he heard about the word: humankind??? 

[sarahb 17,188]

I know I can't speak for all women but...I'm not offended and I don't know any woman that has ever been offended by the term 'mankind'  

[MJHolland 12,725]

59 minutes ago, Economy said:

Well, i think most will agree the use of a more inclusive word is too trivial to justify interrupting someone especially if everyone could tell what she meant by the word

Fair enough

I had a high school teacher who would do stuff like this and everyone really appreciated him

People won’t change unless you make it a point I guess 

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

People need to make up their minds. If it's not a big deal, why are some people upset that he tried to correct her?

Why does it make you cringe? Cause you don't like change, you think its inaccurate? What?  Please tell me, cause I don't understand.

This harms no one and is only more inclusive. There's a reason why its being majorly covered by conservative, regressive, and even alt-right news sources and not elsewhere. It's not a big ****ing deal  

People are quite ironically looking for things to be offended over. Why is this "too far"? It's barely anything. Besides, its not like we don't know that the way we use language affects the way we perceive and react to things. It's not like this kind of change does nothing. 

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I will say however that - although it doesn't matter -  peoplekind sounds clunky in comparison to humankind

 

[GoldenPonyboy 2,434]

Trudeau stop, we need you to win again against the Conservatives so you need to behave.

[Batwings 12,957]

Was a little excessive? Yeah, but with everything going on the world right now, especially with world leaders just blathering whatever inane crap is going through their head, regardless of how it sounds or what kinds of prejudice it reinforces, I think seeing something like this is rather nice.

 

[PartySick 172,545]

English has always been a masculine language...if that makes sense...our default pronouns are he/him/his when speaking about someone of an unspecified gender (using they caught on fairly recently) and that extends to works like "mankind" so while it may be rooted in male dominance from the time where English formed, it's not necessarily meant to put women down.

Not that I'm against using "peoplekind", I just think it's a bit trivial tbh. Why not just use "humanity"?  "Peoplekind" is such a strange word But hey, I envy Canada. Their leader gets headlines for being "too progressive" and we all know what we're sitting with in the U.S.

[ALGAYDO 35,135]

Am I the only one happy that he did this?? It’s a trival thing compared to the other issues facing feminism, but this was low key kinda cool. Like, every little detail matters in my opinion. Just my 2 cents 

[re di tutto 924]

I love him. 

[StarstruckIllusion 53,565]

I'm not even gonna read the potential shade in this thread, cuz all I gotta say is at least he's not Trump 

[JustinTrudeau 2,419]

Yo, what's up? Peoplekind needs a reminder to be inclusive.