#bc he was a linguistics nerd with a hard on for Old English & he knew 'men' just meant 'humans'

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Tbf 'mankind' is actually from an older version of English where 'man' just meant "human" (the word for woman was 'wif' & the word for man was 'were' which still survives in 'werewolf', or man-wolf) and 'kind' comes from 'kin' or cynn meaning "family".

The English language is still very man centered bc of the patriarchy but this particular bit predates the gender neutral assigning of men centered terms