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The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes
- finnthehuman 8y agoThe headline sounds like an interesting premise, but I just don’t have time in my life for articles with piss-poor writing anymore. The first paragraph retells a hot take about history that would have no substance if the speaker wasn’t deliberately playing dumb about the word “man” referring to humankind and not just historical men. Reading such trash is a net negative to the psyche. So I’ll cut my losses and close the tab.
- zaphoyd 8y agoThis seems to be the point of the article. That even down to the words we use to describe humankind, it is the male form that gets designated the “reference” form. This has bigger implications in the design of safety equipment and tooling, sure, but the fact that no one dies because of the use of “mankind” vs “humankind” doesn’t mean we should dismiss it.
- ncmncm 8y agoThis is devastating. It has long been clear what needed to happen, by law. The law has been systematically ignored, causing millions of needless deaths over decades of inaction. There is more than enough disgrace to go around to all responsible parties. Shame on you all.