Reply #12: Oh, good grief... [View All]

"mankind" refers to both sexes. I won't apologize for the past and all the inferences it brings, and I prefer to read it in a positive, all-inclusive light -- which is unusual for a guy who has the rep around here about being excessively negative!! :(

If we all were to be so nitpicky with verbiage, we'd be wasting megabytes of disk space with needless amounts of things like she/he, (s)he, her/him, they, them, and so on.

That or you're just suffering from depression, in which case I suggest you get some professional help - pronto. You're needed around here and you are liked by many, myself included.

I know! I'll get PC on everybody and photoshop it so it says "Humankind". A little revisionism is always more fun, just ask Steven Spielberg... but not anybody who saw his revisionism...

If you really want to attack me, there are far easier - and more effective - avenues to use than this trifling hyperbole.

Besides, I thought you'd be more interested that it is a man incapable of knowing emotion reading a scrawl that tells him to have emotion...

Or, in other words, I don't play games. Especially when it's Wargames Of The Sexes.

DEFINED:
mankind \man`kind"\, n. n.]
1. The human race; man, taken collectively.
(1913 Webster)