What do tweeps think of modifying some passages to make them less sexist? For example '[hu]mankind' instead of 'mankind' in the below. "Nature has placed [hu]mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure." Bentham
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It's complex as even "people" or "citizens" can be used exclusively/to erase. For example, one might say citizens could vote in Ancient Athens (which BTW is what I was taught at school) but the truth is that only men (who had been through military training as ephebes) could vote.
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Could not have expressed it more eloquently.
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