shouldnt mankind be called womenkind?

Question

i mean,women keep the population alive,it is proven that our species dont need men,that women could stop humans going extinct on our own.wheras men NEED us to live!and when all babys are in the womb,they are ALL women to begin with!thats why men have nipples!

good names would be peoplekind,humankind,manotkind,folkskind and earthkind.ok,em,pick?

Answer 1

In this day and age, I think we should call it manunkind, but that's beside the point. Have no problem with Mankind and Womankind being used to show the very different struggles that the sexes have faced over the course of their existence, and maybe humanity should be the neutral word for our combined struggle. I realise of course this word still favours man over woman, but there comes a point when "huwomanity" just starts to sound like linguistic mangling, wouldn't you say?

Answer 2

By, you are so off in so many ways.

1. Babies that are still in the womb don't have a sex until they have sexual organs (at which time they become male and female). A male never starts as a female.

2. Men and women have nipples because we are Mammals (which means we have mammory glands). Just because someone has mammory glands doesn't make them female.

3. Mankind stems from the word man meaning a human being or person. Not meaning a male. In ancient languages there are distinctly different words used, but English has man meaning both.

4. Men keep the population alive just as much as women do. If there wasn't any men the population wouldn't exist, just as if there weren't any women. It takes both sperm and egg to make a human, that is human biology 101.

Answer 3

I think you are carrying a very large chip on that shoulder.

You find a non sexist name to call our race, and I will be very happy to vote for it. I would go with Humankind, but you might still have a problem with that.

By the way, do we call a mailman a person person?

A manhole cover a person hole cover?

It all starts getting silly, doesn't it?

So you come up with a good name for the human race, that makes no reference to gender, and we will put it to a vote.

Oh, and as to your point about fetuses, er no. A male fetus has an X and a Y chromosome. From conception. Females have two X's. Now is a male simply an incomplete female? My understanding is you are correct on that one.

All mammals have nipples. One of the secondary traits. Male breasts are simply not fully developed. Pump some estrogen in them and watch out. Seriously. Google it.

Answer 4

You can also view it like this: that the female baby in the womb must still *evolve* into a male... Schopenhauer saw it like that, saying that the male was the real human - and he was a Great Philosopher. By the way, if mankind *would* be called "womankind" it would be with an "a" - it is not "menkind", after all. But this is just as nonsensical as calling it "man-unkind" ("because, after all, most men are not kind at all"...). The word "man" simply means "human being", like the Latin "homo" (not to be confounded with the *Greek* "homo", which means "the same" and is the basis for words like "homophilia" etc.):

"Sense of "adult male" is late (c.1000); O.E. used *wer* and *wif* to distinguish the sexes, but *wer* began to disappear late 13c. and was replaced by *man*. Universal sense of the word remains in *mankind* (from O.E. *mancynn*, from *cynn* "kin") and in *manslaughter* (q.v.)."
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=man

Perhaps there should be womanslaughter instead of manslaughter! That sounds like a good idea. Time for some ewomancipation!

Answer 5

Women need male sperm for 'artificial' insemination. Besides, in Genesis God created man 'in His own image'. As far as men 'needing' women to live, I lived on my own for eight years, learned how to cook and sew, and when I got married in 2001, I was a better cook than my wife! She gained 15 lbs because I'm a pretty good cook (I like to eat good food!)

As far as men having nipples, women's testicles are up inside them and are called ovaries, creating ova instead of sperm.

Women are not a different 'species' from men, they are the female version of the same species, homo sapiens.

Answer 6

no i disagree,it would be better to call it the human race or as earlier remarked- humanity,,,,,, cos in my opinion man and woman together make god!we may distort this fact according to our perceptions,and tel one is more important than the other,or that one can live with out the other,but that i think would not be impossible, but each gender would lose its identity!!!

Answer 7

man means actually 2 things one is man for male human,the other is man for humankind.in the early history of human life the people inventing language were not PC.how does a woman reproduce all by herself?

Answer 8

Stop playing with semantics and try to understand the meaning. Its a word- it doesn't matter what the word is as long as you know what it symbolizes. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Answer 9

i do not know the answer but i will give it my comprehension, i think because man came first according to the bible Adam,, and then Eve,and so maybe the expression mankind is just the way it wss set up in our languages,,

whether ofr not oour species needs men, i sure think GOD THINKS DIFFERENT, OTHERWISE WELL GOD KNEW WHAT HE WAS AND IS DOING, AND WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT REALLY MAKE,?

I T DOES NOT MATTER TO ME, MAN KIND OR WOMAN KIND I BELIEVE IT IS IMPORTANT TO RESPECT BOTH SEXES, EVEN IF WE DISAGREE,,

BESIDES, I DO THINK GOD WAS KIND............WHEN HE CREATED MEN

Answer 10

what r u some sorta dike or feminist or sumpthin? you still need sperm (that stuff that comes out of the tip of a mans penis) to reproduce so that means you can not keep your spieces alive without men you ****** moron! ha! i cant believe your so dumb